Pandemic Legalities
Legal Responses to COVID-19 – Justice and Social Responsibility
Edited by Dave Cowan and Ann Mumford
ISBN
978-1529218923Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529218916Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529218930Imprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529218930Imprint
Bristol University Press
Pandemic Legalities
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The effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged.
This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with policy and practice developments and with the neutral version of the law and the economy which has taken root.
Drawing on diverse resources, this text offers an account of the damage caused by legal responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how the future response can be positive and productive.
“A very timely collection by some very distinguished socio-legal scholars about the impact of COVID-19 on individuals and institutions in the UK – an excellent resource for those who wish to think seriously about the policies that should be promoted when the pandemic is over.” Michael Adler, University of Edinburgh
"The pandemic has required governments in most jurisdictions to introduce emergency powers to restrict freedom of association and freedom of movement. These are key civil rights and the social contract with the public must always be that such restrictions should be time limited, proportionate and have democratic oversight. Alas, in too many places, governments have used the pandemic as cover to expand their power and erode human rights. This book is a wake up call on the way law is misused in periods of crisis to the detriment of citizens the world over." Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Dave Cowan is Professor of Law and Policy at the University of Bristol.
Ann Mumford is Professor of Taxation Law at King’s College London.
Introduction ~ Dave Cowan and Ann Mumford
Part 1 ~ Justice
Ruling the Pandemic ~ Dave Cowan
Remote Justice and Vulnerable Litigants: The Case of Asylum ~ Nick Gill
Virtual Poverty? What Happens When Criminal Trials Go Online? ~ Linda Mulcahy
Genera-Relational Justice in the COVID-19 Recovery Period: Children in the Criminal Justice System ~ Kathryn Hollingsworth
Racism As Legal Pandemic: Thoughts on Critical Legal Pedagogies ~ Foluke Adebisi and Suhraiya Jivraj
Rights and Solidarity During COVID-19 ~ Simon Halliday, Jed Meers and Joe Tomlinson
COVID-19 PPE Extremely Urgent Procurement in England: A Cautionary Tale for an Overheating Public Governance ~ Albert Sanchez-Graells
Part 2 ~ the Social
Accountability for Health and the NHS in Post-Brexit COVID-19 UK: The ‘Left Behind’ and the Rule of Law ~ Tamara Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark Flear and Matthew Wood
COVID-19 in Adult Social Care: Futures, Funding and Fairness ~ Rosie Harding
Housing, Homelessness and COVID-19 ~ Rowan Alcock, Helen Carr and Ed Kirton-Darling
Education, Austerity and the COVID-19 Generation ~ Alison Struthers
What Have We Learned About the Corporate Sector in COVID-19? ~ Sally Wheeler
Social Security Under and After COVID-19 ~ Jed Meers
Maintaining the Divide: Labour Law and COVID-19 ~ Katie Bales
From Loss to (Capital) Gains: Reflections on Tax and Spending in the Pandemic Aftermath ~ Ann Mumford and Kathleen Lahey
