Research archive

A selection of our older research reports are available to download from this page - see the research unit page for the more recent reports.

• Stakeholder engagement
  
  

• Understanding the level and nature of legal aid provision

• Improving operations

Stakeholder engagement

• Solicitors’ Views on the Impact of the Civil Legal Aid Reform (2005):
  • Summary
  • Report in pdf format

• Public knowledge of legal aid (2005)
  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.
  • Research report in pdf format

• Survey of users of civil advice and assistance or ABWOR (2002)
  • Read summary

Understanding the level and nature of legal aid provision

• 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.

  • Read more - including a short summary and the full 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.
  • Read more - including downloading the report or summary.
    
    
    
• 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.
  

Improving operations

• No archive documents are currently available online.