Alternativen der Rechtsberatung: Dienstleistung, Fürsorge und kollektive Selbsthilfe
This paper criticizes the theoretical background of different forms of legal aid to socially and financially underprivileged groups. The existing patterns of the attorney-client type of legal service and the public provision of legal services have different effects on the relationships between a client and his counsellor and the manner in which a counsellor defines his client’s interest and acts to protect them. Legal services provided through union legal aid offices (die “Arbeitersekretariate”) around the turn of the century give a historical example of collective forms of legal services. For the same reasons that led to the development of socially protective regulations within the substantive law, the legal services offered by attorneys proved to be unsatisfactory for the socially underprivileged groups. There were two historical responses to this problem: A collective representation of interests and a welfare orientated “rule of law” approach (“Rechtsfriedensbewegung”, which constituted a countermovement to the “Arbeitersekretariate”). The ‘rule of law’ movement attempted to achieve a conflict-free integration of all social contradictions. Yet another way to provide social services has been followed by the British trade unions. Unlike the German unions they were not incorporated into the formal legal system, a fact which allowed them to develop their own “extra-legal” forms of negotiations with regard to labour conflicts.
Rechtshilfe für untere Schichten und Anwaltschaft
Wenn die Situation unterer sozialer Schichten heute vielfach als unbefriedigend angesehen wird auch was ihre Versorgung mit Rechtshilfe angeht, so wird dabei vorausgesetzt, das in diesen Schichten haufig Rechtsprobleme vorkommen. Das nicht nur diese Voraussetzung richtig ist, sondern das es sogar kaum einen schichten-spezifischen Unterschied in der Zahl der Probleme gibt, das haben einige Umfragen gezeigt (1), aber auch der Geschaftsumfang von erfolgreich arbeitenden Rechtsberatungsstellen, wie etwa derjenigen von Hamburg, wo etwa 60 000 Beratungen im Jahr an Burger mit geringem Einkommen erteilt werden.
The Contemporary British History Play
Introduction Biographical History Plays Social History Plays Oppositional History Plays Marxist and Socialist History Plays Feminist History Plays Deconstructionist and Postmodern History Plays and Satire The Search for a Theatrical Form Appendix A: Performance Dates of Contemporary British History Plays Appendix B: Performance Locales of Contemporary British History Plays Bibliography Index