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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.

This world-first report on legal capability provides a starting point to better understand what is needed for people to achieve fair outcomes for issues in our lives which might have a legal solution, what are known as justiciable problems.

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.

This summary looks at how PULS volume 3 demonstrates that legal capability matters and suggests new directions for reform to enable public legal assistance services to best meet people’s needs.

This summary looks at both the diversity of capability in the population and the range of problem types as identified in PULS Volume 2.

This summary looks at key areas explored through the questionnaire in the survey and reveals some notable insights from PULS Vol 1.

This paper looks at the bi-directional relationship between health problems and legal problems. Data demonstrates a clear and strong link between health conditions and the experience of legal problems, raising further questions for research and discussion.

This paper examines the experience of employment problems that raise legal issues for people aged 18 to 24. We explore problem prevalence, adverse consequences, including impacts to mental health, what, if anything, was done to try to resolve employment problems, and what the outcomes were.

This briefing paper presents data about the prevalence of justiciable problems among young people (aged 18–24) in Victoria, drawn from the Victoria Law Foundation’s Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS).

This briefing paper presents data that is relevant to how single parents experience the law in Victoria, collected from Volume 1 of Victoria Law Foundation’s Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS).

This briefing paper presents data from the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) concerning experience of justiciable problems and mental distress.

This document sets out the full text and routing of the PULS questionnaire, along with commentary on the theoretical background to questions, rationale for their inclusion, details of technical development, references to relevant past studies, as well as PULS showcards.