According to our preliminary survey data, the top
everyday legal problems experienced by Canadians are: consumer problems, debt problems, and employment problems.
Not exact matches
The report was entitled The
Legal Problems of
Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable
Problems Experienced by Canadians.
In the last decade Canadian and international research has demonstrated the high,
everyday incidence of
legal problems experienced among the general population.
Data from the 2014 CFCJ survey —
Everyday Legal Problems in Canada — indicates that a disproportionate percentage of persons who experience legal problems bear the burden of a significant amount of all legal problems — 10 % of persons who have at least one legal problem experience 1/3 of all legal prob
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Problems in Canada — indicates that a disproportionate percentage of persons who
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The CFCJ survey also confirms that overall, there is a high prevalence of
everyday legal problems within Canadian society, with 47 % of all adult Canadians expected to
experience one or more
legal problem within a three - year period.
Yet despite the high number of people that
experience everyday legal problems, only a small percentage of people obtain
legal help in dealing with them, and only a very small percentage use any part of the formal justice system to resolve them.
The Australian study is also important because it reminds us of a similar study done here for the federal Department of Justice and released in 2009: The
Legal Problems of
Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable
Problems Experienced by Canadians, by A. Currie.