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POLICY AND RESEARCH

Research

The Board has developed its research capacity to provide to the public, policy makers and other stakeholders, better information about the operation of the legal aid system. 

Policy publications include:

  • 2007 Applicant and Opponent surveys.  This survey was to get the views of applicants and opponents to inform legal aid practices and procedures. Read the summary research findings report.
  • Public knowledge of legal aid
    Research into public views towards awareness of legal aid, if people think they are eligible and where they would go to find out more information about legal aid. Read the research report.

  • Distribution of the supply of legal aid in Scotland
    Research report on the supply and use of civil advice and assistance and civil legal aid in Scotland 1996/97 to 2000/01. Published December 2002. Find out more - including obtaining the research report.
  • Legal aid in a changing world
    Research into the reduction in civil legal aid applications in Scotland between 1992 and 2001. Published December 2001. Find out more - including downloading the report.
  • Research report on the supply of legal aid in Scotland, by Prof Alan Paterson and Malcolm Turner-Kerr, for the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Published 1994. Contact us to request a printed copy of the report and appendices.

 

 

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