Legal aid in the criminal courts
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802021913
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1975
Publisher
Pages
152
Subject
Legal aid
Abstract
"Legal representation is the thin line which can separate mere accusation from the serious consequences that flow from criminal conviction. Representation for the accused has been a right given slowly, and always within limitations. However, a person who is denied counsel is given grounds for grievance and resentment, even if guilty of the offence charged, and thereby comes closer to further conflict with the criminal process.
Legal Aid in the Criminal Courts examines the performances of lawyers acting within the terms of the extraordinary legal aid plan in Ontario, which seeks to provide counsel on the same basis as that received by those who pay privately for legal representation. For the many steps toward the final disposition of criminal cases in the courts, Professor Wilkins compares systematically the work of legal aid lawyers with those of lawyers retained privately; he also discusses differences between cases with legal representation and those in which the accused is not represented, within the difficult circumstances of the lower courts in urban Toronto. The author is attentive to the relationships of various legal aid programs in the UK and the US to the Ontario Plan, and to the adaptations of practising lawyers to the Ontario system.
Legal aid has been considered and evaluated both as a principle and as a right. This work is unique as an extensive examination of how it actually operates in the crucible of the Court. (Canadian Studies in Criminology 3).
James L. Wilkins is Senior Research Associate and Secretary of the Graduate Faculty, Centre of Criminology, and a member of the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto."--Book jacket.
Legal Aid in the Criminal Courts examines the performances of lawyers acting within the terms of the extraordinary legal aid plan in Ontario, which seeks to provide counsel on the same basis as that received by those who pay privately for legal representation. For the many steps toward the final disposition of criminal cases in the courts, Professor Wilkins compares systematically the work of legal aid lawyers with those of lawyers retained privately; he also discusses differences between cases with legal representation and those in which the accused is not represented, within the difficult circumstances of the lower courts in urban Toronto. The author is attentive to the relationships of various legal aid programs in the UK and the US to the Ontario Plan, and to the adaptations of practising lawyers to the Ontario system.
Legal aid has been considered and evaluated both as a principle and as a right. This work is unique as an extensive examination of how it actually operates in the crucible of the Court. (Canadian Studies in Criminology 3).
James L. Wilkins is Senior Research Associate and Secretary of the Graduate Faculty, Centre of Criminology, and a member of the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto."--Book jacket.
Description
xiii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Biblio Notes
Notes:
Bibliography: p. [149]-150.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [149]-150.
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
