Young people’s experience of legal problems

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

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.

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

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

The full PULS questionnaire along with commentary on the questions.

This first volume updates the broad picture of access to justice and legal need, explores how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude.