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.
Civil legal aid helps people to overcome the pressing
legal problems of everyday life — home foreclosures; evictions and landlord tenant disputes; divorce and child custody cases; domestic violence; unfair employment and wage claims; and denial of government benefits or health insurance.
In 2009, the Federal Department of Justice released
The Legal Problems of Everyday Life.
The following chart from
The Legal Problems of Everyday Life shows both the nature of justiciable problems and the those that cause problems for the public
The Legal Problems of Everyday Life (at p. 56) is the source of the information noted in an earlier column that legal assistance is sought for only 11.7 % of justiciable problems.
The report was entitled
The Legal Problems of Everyday Life — The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians.
Not exact matches
«Justiciable
problems are
problems of everyday life, often linked to social exclusion, which may have
legal aspects and potential
legal solutions.»