The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) is a large-scale, face-to-face survey exploring how people understand, experience and navigate law and everyday life problems with a legal dimension (‘justiciable’ problems). It is an innovative hybrid, marrying approaches from the growing number of legal need surveys with new thinking on the conceptualisation and measurement of legal capability. It is designed to further our understanding how people understand and interact with the law and legal problems, and principally, to yield insights with practical access to justice application.

At the date of publication of this document, the PULS questionnaire is in the field, with fieldwork being conducted by Roy Morgan Research. Comprehensive methodological details will be set out in subsequent publications, including the PULS project technical report.