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Need for Legal Assistance Services (NLAS) indicators – 2021 Census update
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...
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG16) Survey Initiative Questionnaire (2022)
EXTERNAL - The SDG16 Survey initiative is a jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC, and OHCHR survey tool that measures progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16. It can support...
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) Annotated Questionnaire (2022)
EXTERNAL - Victoria Law Foundation has undertaken a Victoria-wide survey to understand how people see, understand, and engage with the law. This resouce is the full text and routing of the...
An analysis of Legal Aid service data: two Jurisdictional Profiles
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...
Legal Assistance Services Outcomes Frameworks: A Rapid Scoping Review
The successful use of outcomes frameworks as part of an outcomes-based approach to service design has many benefits by putting people's needs at the centre of design and delivery. An...
Estimating legal needs for planning and reporting purposes (2021)
VIDEO - A short video highlighting some key points to consider when undertaking a legal needs assessment to inform your service planning strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57wWy6A3mGs
Using court data to support planning legal assistance for First Nations people (Data insights in justice)
To enable legal assistance services to appropriately structure available resources and plan most effectively to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the justice system, it is important to...
Locating legal assistance demand: using courts data to support legal service planning for First Nations people in NSW
This project aimed to support service planning for the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Ltd (ALS) by sourcing and analysing relevant data and devising a proxy indicator for demand for legal...
An Assessment of Legal Needs in NSW
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....
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families in Australian Coroners Courts: A review of the research literature on improving court experiences
Coroners courts in many jurisdictions throughout Australia are seeking ways to ensure their processes and practices are culturally sensitive, particularly for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands families. This report...
Productivity Commission’s Indigenous Evaluation Strategy (2020)
EXTERNAL - The Productivity Commission has developed an evaluation strategy to be used by all Australian Government agencies. The Strategy sets out a new approach to evaluation policies and programs affecting...
Law informed: The value of telephone legal information services to clients
Do telephone legal information services fill a valuable place in the legal assistance landscape? Under its Research Alliance with Victoria Legal Aid (VLA), the Law and Justice Foundation followed up...
Housing-related problems and enquiries to legal assistance services in NSW (Data insights in justice)
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...
Employment-related problems and enquiries to legal assistance services in NSW (Data insights in justice)
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...
Community Legal Centres National Picture, 2018-19
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 Legal Services National Picture, 2018-19
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...
OECD Legal Needs Surveys and Access to Justice (2019)
EXTERNAL - This report offers an empirical tool to help planners, statisticians, policy makers and advocates understand people's everyday legal problems and experience with the justice system. It sets out a...
Evidence and analysis of legal need in Queensland (2019)
External - This resource, from Community Legal Centres Queensland, was designed to support the 2019 procurement process for CLCs in Queensland. Read the publication
Uptake of legal self-help resources: what works, for whom and for what?, Justice issues 30
This paper reports new analysis of the national dataset of the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey examining Australians' use of self-help resources (SHRs) for legal problems. It includes previously unreported measures...
Quantifying the legal and broader life impacts of domestic and family violence, Justice issues paper 32
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,...
Conducting legal need surveys in the Australian context: challenges and options, Justice issues paper 31
Australia's first legal needs survey, the LAW Survey, was conducted in 2008. Much has changed in the last ten years, including major population growth and a digital transformation in service...
An indicator of need for community legal centres: introducing NLAS(CLC), Justice issues paper 29
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...
Developing a triage framework: linking clients with services at Legal Aid NSW
Triage refers to the practice of responding to and sorting the people's legal problems on their degree or type to channel them to the appropriate service. The purpose of triage...
Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders (2018)
EXTERNAL - National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) revised guidelines provide relevant advice about ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Read the publication
Locating demand: updating the Need for Legal Assistance Services indicators: 2016 Census data, Justice issues paper 28
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...
Fines: are disadvantaged people at a disadvantage? Justice issues paper 27
Using LAW Survey data, this paper reveals that fines problems disproportionately affect disadvantaged people. The most disadvantaged were particularly vulnerable to fines problems, and the adverse consequences resulting from fines...
Victoria Legal Aid: Information services literature scan
The purpose of this literature scan was to locate and summarise the available research evidence on information services, with a focus on what contributes to effective legal information. Victoria Legal...
Legal Aid NSW Domestic Violence Unit: process evaluation of the first nine months
The Legal Aid NSW DFV Strategy 2016-2018 aligns with government policies and priorities to ensure people who are affected by DFV receive high quality, client-centred and holistic services. The DVU...
Evidence of legal need in NSW to support the Cameron Review
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...