Discover how people understand and engage with the law

Targeted and tailored engagement is necessary to increase awareness of young people's everyday justiciable problems and available legal help.

In Brief

For young people, links between employment problems and mental health are particularly strong, with psychological distress a common consequence.

Short paper

Psychological distress and mental illness have been shown to be among the factors most powerfully associated with problems arising in people’s lives that raise legal issues.

In Brief

Single parents have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to experiencing multiple substantial legal problems.

In Brief

Explore the knowledge, skills and attributes that are required to effectively understand and use the law.

Report

Examining the factors that influence the pricing of legal services, how practitioners communicate costs, and how they affect the lawyer-client relationship.

Summary

Examining the factors that influence the pricing of legal services, how practitioners communicate costs, and how they affect the lawyer-client relationship.

Report

Explore how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude (if they conclude).

Report