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Cover of Towards a measurement framework for people centred justice systems by OECD

Towards a measurement framework for people‑centred justice systems

Maaike de Langen,

Tatyana Teplova,

Geoff Mulherin, | 2026

This working paper proposes a framework for measuring people-centred justice systems, responding to the fragmented and institution-focused nature of existing justice data. It links government policy, justice services and outcomes...

Access to justice,

Legal needs,

Outcomes,

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AI and Access to Justice at the Shop Front cover

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Catherine Hastings,

Art Cotterell,

Farzana Bruce, | 2026

This article explores what must be considered about client capabilities to ensure AI technologies are appropriate in the context of CLC service delivery. The authors consider the nature of legal...

Access to justice,

Legal needs,

Technology,

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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Catherine Hastings,

Art Cotterell,

Farzana Bruce, | 2026

This article explores what must be considered about client capabilities to ensure AI technologies are appropriate in the context of CLC service delivery. The authors consider the nature of legal...

Access to justice,

Community Legal Centres,

Legal needs,

Technology,

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Barriers experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families accessing legal supports

National Voice for our Children (SNAICC) ,

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) ,

, | 2026

This scoping study examines the legal needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families involved with the child protection system, identifies gaps in access to legal support, and provides recommendations...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,

Access to justice,

Legal needs,

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Cover of Justice at a disavantage, a short paper from Victoria Law Foundation's Public Understanding of Law Survey

Justice at a disadvantage: What we know now about legal need, capability and multiple disadvantage 

Hugh McDonald,

Zhigang Wei, | 2026

This short paper investigates the interplay of disadvantage, legal need, and legal capability on Victorians legal problem prevalence, duration, and severity based on data from the Public Understanding of Law...

Access to justice,

Data,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

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Evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services easy read report

Easy Read: Evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services

Kate Davies,

Sarah Ratcliffe,

Emily Kothe,

Sandra Takchi, | 2025

Uses pictures and words to show how the NDIS Appeals Program helps people with disability to get legal support that they need.

Assessing Impact,

Courts and tribunals,

Disability,

Evaluations,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Recent,

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An evaluation of the NDIS appeals program legal services report

Research Summary: ‘I would have given up without it’: An evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services

Kate Davies,

Sarah Ratcliffe,

Emily Kothe,

Sandra Takchi, | 2025

Highlights findings from our evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services, and key lessons for improving access to justice for people with disability making an appeal to the Administrative...

Assessing Impact,

Courts and tribunals,

Disability,

Evaluations,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Recent,

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An evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services report

‘I would have given up without it’: An evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services

Kate Davies,

Sarah Ratcliffe,

Emily Kothe,

Sandra Takchi, | 2025

An Evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services examines the program’s role in supporting access to justice for people with disability navigating the Administrative Review Tribunal.

Assessing Impact,

Courts and tribunals,

Disability,

Evaluations,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Recent,

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Cover of Natural disaster-related legal need: Community Legal Centres and disaster preparedness

Natural disaster-related legal need: Community Legal Centres and disaster preparedness

Emily Kothe,

Kerryn Butler,

Kate Davies, | 2025

The final stage of a multi-phase research program has now been released, addressing how the legal assistance sector can better support disaster-affected communities in Australia.

Access to justice,

Community Legal Centres,

Legal needs,

natural disasters,

Recent,

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The Public Understanding of Law Survey Volume 3: A New Perspective on Legal Need and Legal Capability

Hugh McDonald,

Nigel J. Balmer,

Pascoe Pleasence,

Rebecca L. Sandefur,

| 2024
This publication explores how attitudes, skills and confidence matter in satisfactorily resolving justiciable issues.

Legal need surveys,

Legal needs,

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Natural disaster-related legal need in Australia: State of the evidence

Natural disaster-related legal need in Australia: State of the evidence

Emily Kothe,

Kerryn Butler,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2024

This report provides the first comprehensive summary of what is known about disaster-related legal needs in the Australian context and offers new insights to aid in understanding the specific challenges...

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Recent,

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Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) In brief: Young people’s experience of legal problems

Georgina Rychner,

Rochelle Jupp,

| 2024
This briefing paper presents data about the prevalence of justiciable problems among young people (aged 18–24) in Victoria, drawn from the Victoria Law Foundation’s Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS)....

Children and young people,

Legal needs,

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Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS): Problems at work: Young people, employment and legal need

Georgina Rychner,

Hugh McDonald,

| 2024
This short paper uses the Public Understanding of Law Survey to examine the experience of employment problems that raise legal issues for people aged 18 to 24. This short paper...

Children and young people,

Legal needs,

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The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) In brief: How single parents experience the law in Victoria

Emmaline Ohri,

Hugh McDonald,

| 2024
This briefing paper presents data that is relevant to how single parents experience the law in Victoria, collected from Volume 1 of Victoria Law Foundation’s Public Understanding of Law Survey...

Legal needs,

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The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) In brief: Mental distress and experience of legal problems

Hugh McDonald,

Rochelle Jupp,

| 2024
This briefing paper presents data from the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) concerning experience of justiciable problems and mental distress. Visit the PULS website to find out more.

Health and Disability,

Legal needs,

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Data to inform assessment of legal needs in New South Wales

Data to inform assessment of legal needs in New South Wales

Delphine Bellerose,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Michaela Mournehis,

Kerryn Butler, | 2023

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of some information and data sources that are useful to consider in conducting a legal needs assessment in New South...

Assessing legal need,

Data,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

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Submission to the Independent Review of the National Legal Assistance Program – October 2023

Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, | 2023

The Foundation’s submission to the review of the National Legal Assistance Partnership (NLAP) 2020-25. The NLAP is a national partnership agreement between the Australian Government and all states and territories...

Access to justice,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Planning service delivery,

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An Assessment of Legal Needs in NSW

Delphine Bellerose,

Kerryn Butler,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Geoff Mulherin, | 2021

The Law and Justice Foundation of NSW was approached by the NSW Department of Communities and Justice in September 2021 to prepare an assessment of legal needs in the jurisdiction....

Assessing legal need,

Data,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

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Quantifying the legal and broader life impacts of domestic and family violence, Justice issues paper 32

Christine Coumarelos, | 2019

New analysis of the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey reveals that respondents who had experienced domestic and family violence (DFV) reported 20 legal problems on average in the preceding 12 months,...

Domestic Violence,

Family and domestic abuse,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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Personal injury problems: new insights from the Legal Australia-Wide Survey, Justice issues paper 22

Christine Coumarelos,

Genevieve Grant,

Zhigang Wei, | 2017

This paper uses data from the LAW Survey to shed light on four different types of personal injury problems that are likely to be justiciable or have legal aspects -...

Injury,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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It’s personal: business ownership and the experience of legal problems, Justice issues paper 24

Pascoe Pleasence,

Nigel Balmer, | 2017

This paper uses Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey data to explore 2,611 nationally representative business owners' experiences of legal problems. Independent of other factors, business owners were found to be more...

Business,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Small business,

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On the brink: how business owners experience business related and other legal problems article

On the brink: how business owners experience business related and other legal problems

Nigel Balmer,

Pascoe Pleasence, | 2017

New analysis of LAW Survey data has identified three distinct groups among business owners according to their likelihood of experiencing business-related and other types of legal problems ‒ ‘normal’, ‘highly...

Business,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Small business,

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From the frying pan to the fire: the impact of small businesses’ legal problems article

From the frying pan to the fire: the impact of small businesses’ legal problems

Nigel Balmer,

Pascoe Pleasence, | 2017

Among LAW Survey respondents, 2,611 people (13%) described themselves as business owners. These business owners reported 984 business-related legal problems, 65 per cent of which resulted in adverseconsequences (e.g. loss...

Business,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Small business,

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In need of advice: how business owners respond to legal problems article

In need of advice: how business owners respond to legal problems

Nigel Balmer,

Pascoe Pleasence, | 2017

Business owners sought advice to resolve business-related legal problems more often than other LAW Survey respondents. They also made greater use of legal advisers, financial advisers and trade/professional association advisers...

Business,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Small business,

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Article about meeting the greater legal needs of single parents

Meeting the greater legal needs of single parents

Maria Karras,

Reiny Iriana, | 2016

New analysis of LAW Survey data reveals that single parents whose children live with them, and single parents whose children live elsewhere, have the highest prevalence of legal problems among...

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Other priority groups,

Single parents,

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Collaborative Planning Resource – Service Planning

Christine Coumarelos,

Hugh McDonald,

Suzie Forell,

Zhingang Wei, | 2015

The Foundation developed the Collaborative Planning Resource (CPR) in support of the 2015 National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services (NPA) between the Commonwealth of Australia and the states/territories. It...

Assessing legal need,

Legal assistance services,

Legal needs,

Planning service delivery,

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Article about Indigenous people, multiple disadvantage and response to legal problems

Indigenous people, multiple disadvantage and response to legal problems

Zhigang Wei,

Hugh McDonald,

Christine Coumarelos, | 2015

This paper extends analysis of the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey national dataset by examining response to legal problems and barriers to obtaining advice by Indigenous status and level of disadvantage....

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,

Client Groups,

Disadvantage,

Disadvantage | ATJ,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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Article about Planning legal assistance services by area: is SEIFA the answer?

Planning legal assistance services by area: is SEIFA the answer?

Julie People,

Maria Karras,

Christine Coumarelos,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Stephanie Ramsey, | 2015

Results from the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey demonstrate that certain disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable to legal problems. Thus, data that identify the demographic groups with high legal need and...

Indicators of legal need,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

Planning service delivery,

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Article about the legal capability and inaction for legal problems: knowledge, stress and cost

Legal capability and inaction for legal problems: knowledge, stress and cost

Hugh McDonald,

Julie People, | 2014

Deficiencies in legal capability may limit a person’s ability to effectively resolve legal problems. This paper examines three reasons provided by respondents for taking no action in response to legal...

Access to and use of services,

Capability,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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Article about are renters worse off? The legal needs of public and private tenants

Are renters worse off? The legal needs of public and private tenants

Deborah Macourt,

Reiny Iriana, | 2014

International legal needs research has revealed that people who live in rented accommodation are particularly vulnerable to experiencing legal problems. This paper uses LAW Survey data to address the legal...

Housing & homelessness,

LAW survey,

Legal Issues,

Legal needs,

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Article on the topic of do some types of legal problems trigger other legal problems?

Do some types of legal problems trigger other legal problems?

Julie People, | 2014

Legal problems that have the potential to trigger other legal problems can set off a series of multiple problems, which can spiral out of control. Identifying trigger problems can help...

Client Groups,

Disadvantage | ATJ,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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Article about Youth and the law: the impact of legal problems on young people

Youth and the law: the impact of legal problems on young people

Deborah Macourt, | 2014

Stress-related illness, physical ill health, relationship breakdown, moving home, and loss of income or financial strain, were all adverse consequences attributed to the legal problems reported by respondents to the...

Children and young people,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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Indigenous people’s experience of multiple legal problems and multiple disadvantage – a working paper

Zhigang Wei,

Hugh McDonald, | 2014

The Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey found that Indigenous people who experience legal problems had an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple legal problems. New analyses using the LAW Survey national dataset...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,

LAW survey,

Legal needs,

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