Search results for: Marisol Smith
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The Geographical Journal > 180 > 3 > 211 - 223
In line with changes to the delivery of other public services, current reforms to publicly funded legal advice services within England and Wales seek to move services from traditional face‐to‐face settings to delivery predominantly over the telephone. Government justification for the policy has focused on greater equality of access. In contrast, criticisms have centred upon the inability of the telephone...
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Journal of Empirical Legal Studies > 10 > 1 > 146 - 170
There is a substantial body of quantitative evidence that documents the incidence of legal problem clusters, the tendency of problems to occur together. It has also been shown that some people are at greater risk of multiple problem experience than others, in particular, disadvantaged groups. Various policy initiatives, most recently in England and Wales, have been implemented to address the links...
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Food Policy > 1997 > 22 > 1 > 81-96
This paper examines selected aspects of staple food markets in Sri Lanka in order to draw conclusions about the role of the state in promoting price stability and equity for producers and consumers. The paper describes the food security system in Sri Lanka, and carries out a time-series analysis of price seasonality and margins in rice marketing 1980-95. Interactions between rice and wheat markets...
