The Legal Australia-Wide Survey (LAW Survey) provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population. It examines the nature of legal problems, the pathways to their resolution, and the demographic groups that struggle with the weight of their legal problems.
2005 ; Forell & Gray 2009; Genn & Paterson 2001; Pearson & Davis 2002; Pleasence 2006). For example, Pearson and Davis (2002) reported worse outcomes for legal hotline callers who were poorly educated, separated or members of minority ...
The Legal Australia-Wide Survey (LAW Survey) provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population.
The current report on NSW is one in a series of nine reports. The series includes a report for each state/territory and a report for Australia as a whole.
The Legal Australia-Wide Survey (LAW Survey) provides the first comprehensive quantitative assessment across Australia of an extensive range of legal needs on a representative sample of the population.
It provides guidance and recommendations in a modular way, allowing application into different types of surveys. It also outlines opportunities for legal needs-based indicators that strengthen our understanding of access to civil justice.
The present study involved a quantitative assessment of the access to justice and legal needs of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in New South Wales.
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.
The harder the law is to understand the more work there is for lawyers. This means fewer people will have specialised skills and relationships necessary to successfully achieve an outcome through the legal system.37 This mystification ...
Family Violence (RCFV) and the Why Didn't You Ask? (WDYA) study discussed in Chapters 2 and 5. ... process. lxviii Adolescent family violence In Victoria, the first civil-based restorative program addressing 'adolescent FV' commenced at ...
This report draws on findings from the Community Perspectives of Law Survey, designed to investigate some of the foundational aspects of legal capability.