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Lawyers and the Welfare State
Author(s) -
Sackville Ronald
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1974.tb00520.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , welfare , position (finance) , publishing , legal profession , state (computer science) , law , legal service , welfare state , political science , process (computing) , business , public relations , law and economics , public administration , sociology , finance , computer science , algorithm , politics , operating system
For the most part, the Australian legal profession has failed to meet the challenge of extending the benefits of the law and legal processes to the poor. Lawyers have been assiduous in acting on behalf of wealthier beneficiaries of the welfare state, but they have not applied their skills to improve the position of those who lack substantial resources. An assessment of the role that the profession is equipped to fulfil on behalf of the poor reveals that there is much that could be done to penetrate the welfare process, if lawyers were prepared to direct their energies to that area.