The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) Volume 1: Everyday Problems and Legal Need
Explore how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude (if they conclude).
Ground-breaking research
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) is ground-breaking research to help us better understand legal capability, attitudes and experience of the law in the Victorian community.
This report is the first of three volumes. It explores legal need in Victoria, how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them and how they progress and conclude.
Key findings
Implications and way forward
Explore how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude (if they conclude).
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Publication resources
Discover how people understand and engage with the law
The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) is ground-breaking research to understand legal capability, attitudes, and experience of the law in Victoria.
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Explore the knowledge, skills and attributes that are required to effectively understand and use the law.
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The third volume reports on the links between legal need and legal capability. It investigates the impact and implications of legal capability on legal problem experience and resolution.
Understand better justice
Data and empirical evidence to help understand access to justice and build a better justice system.