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Pascoe Pleasence
Head of the Legal Services Research Centre |
Pascoe Pleasence has been Head of the Legal Services Research Centre (formerly the Legal Aid Board Research Unit) since its inception in 1996. Previously he was a researcher at Queen Mary and Westfield College (QMW), University of London, (1994-5) and a lecturer/tutor for the University of London (external programme), QMW, and the University of Sussex (1994-6). His research interests span the civil and criminal justice systems and extend to jurisprudence and political theory. He became a barrister, following his M.Phil. in Criminology at Cambridge University (1989) and BA (Hons.) in Philosophy at University College London (1987). Key publications include "Firm Handling: The Defence Strategies Of Personal Injury Lawyers" (in Legal Studies, 2000 (with R. Dingwall, T. Durkin, W. Felstiner and R. Bowles)), Local Legal Need (2001 (with A. Buck, T. Goriely, J. Taylor and H. Perkins)), "Causes of Action: First Findings of the LSRC Periodic Survey" (in Journal of Law and Society, 2003 (with H. Genn, N. Balmer, A. Buck, A. O'Grady)), and After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice (2003 (edited with Richard Moorhead)).