Are CLCs finished?
- Alternative Law Journal, March 2012.
- 5 pages
Keywords: Community Legal Centres,
Community legal centres (‘CLCs’) have a justifiable sense that they were once a radical alternative to conventional lawyering but, to the extent that was the case, it is no more. CLCs are now reformers within established legal structures. CLCs also have a strong sense of independence — independence is 'the very essence of what a CLCs is' — but to the extent that that too was the case, it is no longer, and the work of CLCs is now largely determined by the conditions of funding.
Simon Rice (2012): Are CLCs finished?, Alternative Law Journal 37(1):17-21, DOI:10.1177/1037969X1203700105