Poverty Law and Social Change The Story of the Fitzroy Legal Service
by Chesterman, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-09-30
Publisher(s): Melbourne University Press
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Summary
History of the Fitzroy Legal Service from its beginnings in a Melbourne town-hall basement in 1972 to the present. Discusses topics such as community politics, legal aid, the threat of current changes to judicial independence. Includes references, a bibliography and an index. The author is a research fellow at Melbourne University's centre for public policy.
Author Biography
Dr John Chesterman is a graduate in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow at Melbourne University's Centre for Public Policy. He has been a volunteer lawyer at the Fitzroy Legal Service since 1989 and has served on its management committee for five years. He is the author of journal articles in the Australian Journal of Legal History and Law in Context.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Law and the New Left | p. 11 |
| Community Politics | p. 44 |
| The Rise of Legal Aid | p. 71 |
| A Medium of Change | p. 97 |
| Keeping Watch | p. 122 |
| Into the Nineties | p. 157 |
| Legal Culture in Blue Jeans? | p. 167 |
| Conclusion | p. 192 |
| Appendices | p. 197 |
| Notes | p. 209 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 234 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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