Legal Provision in the Rural Environment

“Taking as their starting point the fact that socio-legal research has, to date, been carried out in a markedly urban context Harding and Williams argue, in their introductory chapter, for greater attention to the problems of legal provision in rural areas not only because these problems are worth investigating for their own solution but also because these problems lessons of a more general kind may be drawn from examination of the legal system in a different type of environment. . .Whilst the individual chapters are of interest in themselves, its further value is in drawing attention on a more general level to the problems faced by rural environments and placing them firmly on the intellectual agenda.” –Scottish Law Gazette