This guide discusses the eleven priority groups identified under the National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services 2015-2020 (the NPA). Within each priority group is a summary of key data and facts, as relevant to legal need. Barriers to accessing services are presented for each priority group, as well as considerations for making services more...

This document has been prepared to summarise evidence of legal need in Queensland; it uses demographic information as a proxy for legal need, based on leading international and Australian research. It draws primarily on work of the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales.