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- Title
LEGAL CONSUMERS AS COPRODUCERS.
- Authors
Robertson, Michael; Giddings, Jeff
- Abstract
Although the extent of unbundling among private legal practitioners in the changing Australian marketplace remains uncertain, there is a shift in thinking about the appropriate role of consumers in accessing everyday legal services. This is evident in the delivery of legal services other than those provided by private practitioners, where the consumer's role in legal service delivery arrangements is gradually being transformed. Among those institutions that are responding positively, if not inevitably, to the rising tide of legal self-helpers is the Family Court of Australia. The court's activities in attempting to meet the needs of its pro seconsumers is simultaneously creating opportunities for unbundled legal service delivery, at least for those lawyers willing to seize these opportunities. It would appear that family law disputes, together with the large numbers of voluntary and involuntary legal self-helpers that these disputes generate, is fertile terrain for the development of alternative forms of legal service delivery.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; UNBUNDLED legal services; LEGAL representation; LEGAL services; FAMILY law courts; DOMESTIC relations
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2002, Vol 40, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.174-1617.2002.tb00819.x