Access to Justice Without Lawyers: Understanding Legal Self-Help in Australia

虽然法律自助得到了广泛的实践，但人们对它的理解并不充分。有些人选择自己做法律工作，而另一些人则别无选择。该项目将利用个案研究来确定自助最有可能使用户受益的情况（根据背景、用户特点和现有支助）以及不应提倡自助的情况。该项目将使政府、法院、私营公司、法律援助委员会、社区法律中心和其他机构受益，所有这些机构都提供旨在帮助人们自己处理与法律有关的工作的信息服务。

While legal self-help is extensively practised, it is not well understood. Some people choose to do their own legal work while others have no option. The project will use case studies to identify the circumstances (in terms of context, user characteristics and available support) in which self-help is most likely to benefit the user as well as where such self-help should not be promoted. The project will benefit governments, courts, private companies, legal aid commissions, community legal centres and other agencies, all of which provide information services designed to assist people to handle law-related work themselves.