Publications

Legal needs,

Supporting people-centred justice insights with civil justice data

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2025

The administrative data collected by courts and tribunals has potential to inform decision-making, improve litigants’ experiences, and strengthen public trust and confidence in the justice system.

Recent,

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Using ABS Census data to inform services for non-English speakers

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Delphine Bellerose, | 2024

Mapping Vulnerability: Community Profiles for Effective Legal Assistance

Delphine Bellerose,

Emily Kothe,

Kerryn Butler, | 2024

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,

NLAS (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples)

Delphine Bellerose,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2024

Updated to complete the suite of NLAS indicators based on the 2021 Census, NLAS(Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples) is intended to support the planning of legal assistance services as...

Recent,

Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department in response to the Data and Reporting Discussion Paper – August 2024

Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, | 2024

As a member of the Advisory Group on the development of the successor agreement to the National Legal Assistance Partnership (2020-2025), the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW provided feedback...

Outcomes,

Introducing NLAS(Language) – 2021 Census

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Delphine Bellerose, | 2024

This latest addition to the suite of NLAS indicators is intended to support legal assistance service providers in identifying geographic areas where there is potential demand for translator and interpreter services.

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,

Legal needs,

Making the invisible visible: using Census data to measure potential demand for human services

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2023

Presentation to 2023 Australian Social Policy Conference: Social Policy for Social Change (11 September 2023) on using data for human services.

Top tips for analysing service data

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Delphine Bellerose, | 2023

Guidelines & Methods,

Justice Methods,

Methodology,

Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicators – 2021 Census update

Delphine Bellerose,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2023

The Foundation’s NLAS(Capability) and NLAS(Community) indicators have been updated with the most recent (2021) Census data, with counts available at various levels of geography. These counts provide a comparative indicator...

Making administrative data smarter panel session

Delphine Bellerose, | 2022

An analysis of Legal Aid service data: two Jurisdictional Profiles

Delphine Bellerose, | 2022

This report presents an analysis of Legal Aid service delivery data in NSW (2018-19) and the NT (2020-21). This report aims to showcase the work of Legal Aid services in...

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,

Legal needs,

Housing-related problems and enquiries to legal assistance services in NSW (Data insights in justice)

Delphine Bellerose,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2020

Understanding the characteristics of people who experience housing-related legal problems, such as their age, gender and Indigenous status, is important when planning legal assistance services. The LAW Survey and the...

Enquiries to legal assistance services,

Housing & homelessness,

LAW survey,

Legal Issues,

Employment-related problems and enquiries to legal assistance services in NSW (Data insights in justice)

Sarah Randell,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2020

Understanding the characteristics of people who experience employment-related legal problems, such as their age, gender and Indigenous status, is important when planning legal assistance services. The LAW Survey and the...

Enquiries to legal assistance services,

Employment,

LAW survey,

Community Legal Centres National Picture, 2018-19

Delphine Bellerose,

Geoff Mulherin, | 2020

This report provides a comprehensive national snapshot of the valuable services provided by Community Legal Centres. Commissioned by the Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department, it is the first time such a comprehensive...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services National Picture, 2018-19

Delphine Bellerose,

Geoff Mulherin, | 2020

This report provides a comprehensive national snapshot of the valuable services provided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILSs). Commissioned by the Commonwealth Attorney-Generals Department, it is the...

An indicator of need for community legal centres: introducing NLAS(CLC), Justice issues paper 29

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2019

In August 2018 the NSW government announced that it was adopting an application-based funding model following the Cameron Review of community legal centres and other community-based legal assistance services. The...

Using data to map catchments and identify gaps

Sarah Randell, | 2018

6th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference 2018 (12-14 December 2018) In October 2017, the Foundation was approached by Community Legal Centres NSW (CLCNSW) to: map the catchment areas of...

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel: what does court data tell us about the parties to civil cases?

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2018

6th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference 2018 (12-14 December 2018) This work was funded by the NSW Department of Justice that asked us to explore the utility of NSW...

Access to justice,

Locating demand: updating the Need for Legal Assistance Services indicators: 2016 Census data, Justice issues paper 28

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Sarah Randell, | 2018

This paper describes the revisions to the 2015 Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicators following the release of the 2016 Census data. The NLAS indicators were developed by the...

Evidence of legal need in NSW to support the Cameron Review

Sarah Randell,

Geoff Mulherin,

Catriona Mirrless-Black, | 2018

The report seeks to provide evidence of legal need in New South Wales to assist the implementation of the Cameron Review in 2018. The evidence in this report builds on...

Assessing legal need,

Cameron review,

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Supreme Court

Suzie Forell,

Christine Coumarelos,

Amanda Wilson, | 2018

The final of nine reports in the series, which encompasses the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), and the Land and Environment Court. For...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Land and Environment Court

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Sarah Randell, | 2018

One of nine reports in the series, which encompasses the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), and the Land and Environment Court. For each...

Evidence of legal need in NSW to support the Cameron Review implementation

Sarah Randell, | 2018

Information session held for Community Legal Centres prior to their application submission (29 October 2018). The Foundation published the report called Evidence of legal need in NSW to support the...

Mapping catchments and identifying gaps: a joint research project

Sarah Randell,

Holly Brooke, | 2018

Just Futures - Shaping our vision beyond 2020, National Association of Community Legal Centres Conference (29 August 2018). This project was undertaken to map the catchment areas of generalist CLCs...

Mouths to feed: locating demand for legal assistance services

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2018

International Conference on Access to Justice and Legal Services, University College London (11-13 June 2018)

2018 Collaborative Planning Resource Presentation for the Senior Rights Service

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Sarah Randell, | 2018

Seniors Rights Legal Service (16 April 2018) 2018 Collaborative Planning Resource Presentation to Seniors Rights Service on using the CPR online tool: step by step demonstration.

2018 Collaborative Planning Resource Presentation for NLAF

Geoff Mulherin, | 2018

NSW Legal Assistance Forum Plenary Meeting (21 March 2018) The 2015 Collaborative Planning Resource was funded by the Commonwealth to provide information in support of state and territory planning. It...

Need for legal assistance services: developing a measure for Australia, Justice issues paper 26

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Sarah Randell, | 2017

This paper describes how the Foundation developed the Need for Legal Assistance (NLAS) indicator which uses census data to assess potential demand by geographic location. It provides a count of...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW District Court

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Suzie Forell,

Sarah Randell, | 2017

One of nine reports in the series, which encompasses the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), and the Land and Environment Court. For each...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Overview (NCAT Part 1)

Suzie Forell,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2016

The Department of Justice NSW is seeking to optimise the use of civil court and tribunal data for evidence-based decision-making, specifically the civil divisions of the Local, District and the...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Consumer and Commercial Division (NCAT Part 2)

Suzie Forell,

Christine Coumarelos, | 2016

The final of nine reports in the series, which encompasses the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), and the Land and Environment Court. For...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division & Occupational Division (NCAT Part 3)

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2016

The Department of Justice NSW is seeking to optimise the use of civil court and tribunal data for evidence-based decision-making, specifically the civil divisions of the Local, District and the...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Guardianship Division (NCAT Part 4)

Maria Karras,

Sarah Williams, | 2016

The Department of Justice NSW is seeking to optimise the use of civil court and tribunal data for evidence-based decision-making, specifically the civil divisions of the Local, District and the...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Appeal Panel (NCAT Part 5)

Sarah Williams,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2016

The Department of Justice NSW is seeking to optimise the use of civil court and tribunal data for evidence-based decision-making, specifically the civil divisions of the Local, District and the...

Data insights in civil justice: NSW Local Court

Suzie Forell,

Catriona Mirrlees-Black, | 2016

In summary: evaluation of the appropriateness and sustainability of Victoria Legal Aid's Summary Crime Program evaluates whether, following changes to the program in 2012-2013, VLA's SCP is appropriate to client...

Access to and use of services,

Availability of lawyers in RRR NSW: what we have learnt

Michael Cain,

Deborah Macourt,

Geoff Mulherin,

Suzie Forell, | 2014

Recent concerns about the perceived loss of lawyers from regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas have centred on recruitment and retention issues. This paper highlights key findings of two studies...

The development of the Legal Assistance Service Data Digest and Data Digest Online

Catriona Mirrlees-Black,

Stephanie Ramsey, | 2014

This paper reports on a project by the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales to develop a database and associated online application to facilitate access to data on...