The Foundations of Legal Citizenship

Rix Mark , ‘The Contract State: The Rise of Consumer Citizenship?’ (Paper presented at the Public Policy Network Conference, University of Canberra, 27–28 January 2005). Available from the author on request.

National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC), ‘Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Legal Aid and Access to Justice’ (22 September 2003) 3.

Ibid.

Ibid 4.

Lacey Nicola , ‘Social Policy, Civil Society and the Institutions of Criminal Justice’ (2001) 26 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 7.

National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC), ‘Doing Justice: Acting together to make a difference’ (2003a) 7.

Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic) Inc, ‘Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Legal Aid and Access to Justice’ (22 September 2003) 8.

NACLC, ‘Doing Justice: Acting together to make a difference’, above n 6, 6.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Parliament of Australia, Legal Aid and Access to Justice (June 2004) xv.

Ibid 3.

Ibid xvi.

Ibid xx.

Ibid, cited at 181 (emphasis added).

Ibid xix.

Ibid.

Ibid 172.

NACLC, ‘Doing Justice: Acting together to make a difference’, above n 6, 11.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, above n 9, xx.

Ibid 208.

The ‘Service Agreement’ is a national template document tailored to some extent to the funding and other specified needs of each CLC. Only slight variations are allowed. The current Service Agreement has expired and is currently being renegotiated. It is available at <www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/cclsphome.nsf/> at 3 June 2005.

Attorney General's Department 2004, ‘Commonwealth Community Legal Service Program Guidelines’ 5. The Guidelines document available on the Department's website is dated June 1998 <www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/cclsphome.nsf> at 3 June 2005.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, above n 9, 212. For a variety of reasons, CLCs' staffing budgets account for a higher proportion of overall operating costs than is the case for private legal practices and legal aid authorities.

Ibid 217.

Ibid xx.

Service Agreement, above n 20.

Rix Mark , above n 1, 5.

Rix Mark , ‘Divided Loyalties? The New Public Management of Community Legal Centres’, Third Sector Review (2005, in press).

NACLC, ‘Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into Legal Aid and Access to Justice’, above n 2, 4.

Some of this terminology is borrowed from Allars Margaret , ‘Citizenship Rights, Review Rights and Contractualism’ in Carney Terry Ramia Gaby Yeatman Anna (eds), Contractualism and Citizenship, special edition of Law in Context (2001) 18(2) 79–111; see also Marshall TH , Class, Citizenship and Social Development, (1st ed, 1963).