Resource Category: Client Groups

On the brink: how business owners experience business related and other legal problems (2017)

This short paper presents findings from the Legal Australia-Wide Survey on how business owners experience business-related and other legal problems. (Updating Justice 53)

From the frying pan to the fire: the impact of small businesses’ legal problems (2017)

This short paper presents findings from the Legal Australia-Wide Survey on the imact of legal problems on small businesses. (Updating Justice 52)

How people solve legal problems: level of disadvantage and legal capability (2016)

Drawing from the Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey, this paper provides evidence that people who experience multiple disadvantage generally have a lower legal capability. (Justice Issues 23)

Meeting the greater legal needs of single parents (2016)

This short paper presents findings of the Legal Australia-Wide Survey which identify which family types experience the greatest legal needs. (Updating Justice 51)

Indigenous people, multiple disadvantage and response to legal problems (2015)

This Legal Australia-Wide Survey report examines repsonse to legal problems and barriers to obtaining advice by Indigenous status and level of disadvantage. (Updating Justice 48)

Do some types of legal problems trigger other legal problems? (2014)

This paper uses data collected from the Legal Australia-Wide Survey to determine which types of legal problems are most likely to occur at the beginning of a sequence of legal probelms, that is, which types of legal problems are likely to trigger further legal problems. (Updating Justice 37)

Youth and the law: the impact of legal problems on young people (2014)

This paper uses Legal Australia-Wide Survey data to explore the adverse consequences reported by young people. (Updating Justice 38)

Youth and the law: it’s not all about juvenile justice and child welfare (2013)

This paper using Legal Australia-Wide Survey data explores the relationship between a broad range of civil, family, and criminal legal problems experienced by young people and social and economic disadvantage. (Updating Justice 35)

Legal needs of younger people in Australia (2013)

This short paper summarises findings from the Legal Australia-Wide Survey on the legal problems experienced by younger people aged 15-24 years in Australia. (Updating Justice 27)

Disadvantage and responses to legal problems in remote Australia - a working paper (2013)

This short paper uses Legal Australia-Wide Survey data to explore the strategies people use in response to legal problems in different geographical areas. (Updating Justice 32)

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