'Poor people get hit by cars too; they get evicted; they have their
furniture repossessed; they can't pay their utility bills. But they
do not have personal legal problems in the law school way. Nothing
that happens to them breaks up or threatens to break up a settled
and harmonious life. Poor people do not lead settled lives into
which the law seldom intrudes; they are constantly involved with
the law in its most intrusive forms. ... Poverty creates an
abrasive interface with society; poor people are always bumping
into sharp legal things. The law school model of personal legal
problems, of solving them and returning the client to the smooth
and orderly world in television advertisements, doesn't apply to
poor people.' Stephen Wexler 'Practising Law for Poor People' The
Yale Law Journal. Vol. 79: 1049, 1970. This book is concerned with
the legal problems encountered by people whose lives are
disadvantaged: disabled people, carers, homeless people, people on
low incomes, people falling foul of immigration law ... it is a
long list. People in this position often experience multiple and
synchronous legal problems ('clustered problems') for which the
traditional 'single issue' lawyering approach is ill equipped. Such
people - to cite Stephen Wexler - 'do not lead settled lives into
which the law seldom intrudes; they are constantly involved with
the law in its most intrusive forms'. Their legal challenges don't
come in single discrete packages (eg a personal injury claim, a
house purchase, a divorce) but are multiple, interlinked and
successional. No sooner has one problem been addressed than another
is encountered. The research underpinning this work derives from a
six-year study of the legal challenges experienced by disabled
children and their families and of many more years trying (all too
often unsuccessfully) to use the law to challenge the myriad social
injustices that define the lot of those who live with disadvantage.
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