Integrated legal practice : going to where the people are who need our help - legal empowerment and multidisciplinary innovation.

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Curran, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-2975 and James, S, 2025. Integrated legal practice : going to where the people are who need our help - legal empowerment and multidisciplinary innovation. In: International Legal Aid Group 14th conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 21-23 June 2023.

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Abstract

Studies link austerity policies in health and social care to excess deaths in England and poor life expectancy for people experiencing disadvantage. The University of Glasgow and the Glasgow Centre for Population Health1 found austerity measures in the United Kingdom (cuts to social security and vital services) led to significant excess deaths. Female death rates in 20% of most deprived areas in England increased by 3% after a 14% decline over the previous decade. Similar rates occur elsewhere in the UK’s deprived areas. Legal aid services are one of many neglected service areas that address disadvantage.

This paper explores innovative practice (in settings with limited resources in the UK and other jurisdictions) and emerging evidence-based practice that make inroads into Social Development Goals specifically 16.3 on access to justice. This paper looks at the role of action research, multidisciplinary practices (MDP), policy engagement by partners with endeavours aiming to improve legal empowerment, rights capability, and inroads to address poor health, social and justice outcomes.

The presenters bring insights from different vantage points (public health, education, practice, research, evaluation, and justice). The paper also examines research and campaigns that bring about change and raise public awareness. The paper shares recent evidence-based programs making inroads into the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and discuss what might need to change in the UK and elsewhere to improve outcomes in communities experiencing disadvantage and harm.

In this paper we:

◦Explore incorporating justice in an integrated way, as a realm often left out of interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary practices to better advance human rights adherence, protection, and triggers into poverty.
◦Explore lessons from the research around barriers and breakthroughs for increasing interdisciplinary practice to reach underserved populations.
◦Explore strategies for increasing interdisciplinary practice.
◦Explore how legal aid services can better reach and work collaboratively to address causes of disadvantage.
◦Explore the implications that follow for broader service delivery and policy settings.

Item Type:	Conference contribution
Alternative Title:	Legal empowerment and multidisciplinary innovation.
Description:	Conference paper published on SSRN
Creators:	Curran, L. and James, S.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	12 June 2025
Identifiers:	Number Type 2457472 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Law School
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	19 Jun 2025 12:49
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2025 12:49
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53770