Tag: Legal assistance services
Justice at a disadvantage: What we know now about legal need, capability and multiple disadvantage
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...
A balancing act: Lawyers’ views on access to justice in regional, rural and remote NSW
Insights into delivering justice across regional, rural and remote NSW, drawing on practitioner experience to highlight how place, distance and local context shape legal outcomes.
A blueprint for equality
This report provides a service model for specialist LGBTQIA+ Community Legal Centres. It was developed through consultation with people with lived experience, community leaders and legal practitioners.
Easy Read: Evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services
Uses pictures and words to show how the NDIS Appeals Program helps people with disability to get legal support that they need.
Research Summary: ‘I would have given up without it’: An evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services
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...
‘I would have given up without it’: An evaluation of the NDIS Appeals Program Legal Services
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.
Access to just this? Eligibility for legal aid in Australia and its implications
This paper discusses the challenges and implications of legal aid eligibility in Australia and calls for increased funding, less stringent means tests, and redesigned entry points to legal assistance, to...
Health Justice Partnership: An opportunity to respond to childhood adversity
This mixed-method evaluation found that Health Justice Partnerships helped improve practitioners' understandings of legal support pathways and caregivers to access legal support. International Journal of Integrated Care, 25(1)
NLAS (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples)
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...
Natural disaster-related legal need in Australia: State of the evidence
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...
Introducing NLAS(Language) – 2021 Census
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
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...
Submission to the Independent Review of the National Legal Assistance Program – October 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...
Making the invisible visible: using Census data to measure potential demand for human services
Presentation to 2023 Australian Social Policy Conference: Social Policy for Social Change (11 September 2023) on using data for human services.
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...
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...
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....
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...
Access to justice and the COVID-19 pandemic
This policy brief, co-authored by the OECD and the Law & Justice Foundation of NSW, focuses on the immediate and medium-term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis for justice systems and...
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...
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...
Using data to map catchments and identify gaps
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...
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...
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...
Evidence of legal need in NSW to support the Cameron Review implementation
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...
Planning and delivery of legal assistance services
Equal Access to Justice, OECD Policy Roundtable, Riga (5 July 2018)
Mapping catchments and identifying gaps: a joint research project
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...