Meet legal needs

Meeting everyone’s legal needs means building on what is already working and expanding and adapting service models to make more legal services available to more people. This includes legal help for the wide range of legal issues that people face, in language they understand, to pursue the legal options that work best for them. Meeting legal needs means expanding and innovating legal services while also maintaining existing legal aid and pro bono.

Meeting legal needs also requires finding ways to deliver legal services in different languages, reflecting different approaches to dispute resolution, available across big distances. Technology and creativity are being used to meet the same range of needs in remote and rural communities as in cities. New court-based models and alternatives to litigation are being integrated as dispute resolution options in both cities and small communities. This summary of projects and changes to legal services are some of the new ways to meet legal needs instituted in 2018.