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Pro bono work and social justice
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References

Books
Giddings, J. (2013) Promoting Justice Through Clinical Legal Education Melbourne, Justice Press.
Judicial College (2013) Equal Treatment Bench Book 2013 [Online]. Available at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/judicial-college/ETBB_all_chapters_final.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Wallace, S. (ed) (2015) Oxford Dictionary of Education, 2nd edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Articles
Abel, R. (2010) ‘The paradoxes of pro bono’ Fordham Law Review, vol. 78, no. 5, p. 2443.
Grimes, R. (2003) ‘Legal literacy, community empowerment and law schools – some lessons from a working model in the UK’, The Law Teacher, vol. 37, no.3, 273–84.
Matthew, T. (1946) ‘Legal aid and legal advice in England and Wales: The Rushcliffe Committee report’, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39–44 [Online]. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2311.1946.tb01072.x/abstract/ (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Nicolson, D. (2015) ‘Legal education, ethics and access to justice: Forging warriors for justice in a neo-liberal world’, International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 22, no 1, pp. 51–69.
Cases
Croissant v Germany (1993) 16 EHRR 135
R v Crawley [2014] EWCA Crim 1028
R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5
R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8
Legislation
Courts Bill
Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 c 51
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 c 10
Prisons and Courts HC Bill (2016–17) [170]
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Advice Services Alliance and the Low Commission (2015) The Role of Advice Services in Health Outcomes: Evidence Review and Mapping Study [Online]. Available at http://asauk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ASA-report_Web.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017)
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Amnesty International UK (2016) Cuts that Hurt: The Impact of Legal Aid Cuts in England on Access to Justice [Online], London, Amnesty International UK. Available at https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur45/4936/2016/en/ (Accessed 2 May 2017).
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Briggs, M. (2016) Civil Courts Structure Review: Final Report [Online], London, Ministry of Justice. Available at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/civil-courts-structure-review-final-report-jul-16-final-1.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Briggs, M. (2015) Civil Courts Structure Review: Interim Report [Online], London, Ministry of Justice. Available at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ccsr-interim-report-dec-15-final1.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Carter, P. (2006) Legal Aid: A Market-based Approach to Reform, Department of Consitutional Affairs.
Casciani, D. (2014) ‘Court of Appeal overturns move to halt to fraud trial’, BBC News, 14 May [Online]. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27501825/ (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Center for Economic and Social Justice (2017) Defining Economic Justice and Social Justice [Online]. Available at http://www.cesj.org/learn/definitions/defining-economic-justice-and-social-justice/ (Accessed 2 May 2017).
CrowdJustice (2017) People's Challenge to the Government on Art. 50: A Parliamentary Prerogative [Online]. Available at https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/parliament-should-decide/ (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Debate: Access to Justice, Legal Aid and Pro Bono in the UK (2014) YouTube video, added by PILnet [Online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlnZGqEKoiw (Accessed 2 May 2017).
Etherton, T. (2016) LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards Lecture 2016 [Online]. Available at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/law-works-lecture-mr-20161205.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017).
House of Commons Justice Committee (2015) Impact of Changes to Civil Legal Aid under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 [Online], London, The Stationery Office. Available at https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmjust/311/311.pdf (Accessed 2 May 2017).
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LawWorks (2015) The Pro Bono Protocol [Online]. Available at https://www.lawworks.org.uk/why-pro-bono/what-pro-bono/pro-bono-protocol (Accessed 2 May 2017).
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Practice Guidance (Terminology for Litigants in Person) [2013] 2 All ER 624
Ramcharan, M. (2017) ‘Pro bono saved me’, Open Justice, 11 January [Blog]. Available at http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openjustice/?p=20 (Accessed 2 May 2017).