Objectives and research questions
The project’s objectives are to:
- Create Descriptive Maps through which to understand demand, supply, and accessibility profiles for different categories of SWILA.
- Critically examine the consequences of the different legal aid policy models within the UK.
- Investigate both the national barriers to provision across categories of SWILA, and the place-specific barriers to provision in different advice desert and drought regions.
- Incorporate practitioner- and policy-level knowledge exchange from the outset, with the overall objective of demonstrating how a more sustainable market can be established.
The project will answer three research questions:
- How do law and policy interact with place, in each of the three different legal aid systems within the UK, to affect legal need and provision of SWILA?
- Why do advice deserts and advice droughts arise for SWILA in some regions or sub-regions, and how can the barriers to provision be overcome?
- How is the provision of SWILA experienced by people seeking or receiving advice in different regions of the UK?