Global Insights on Access to Justice

The WJP’s study is the first-ever effort to capture comparable data on legal needs and access to civil justice on a global scale, representing the voices of more than 100,000 people in 101 countries. While the majority of previous legal needs surveys varied greatly from country to country and focused primarily on developed nations, the access to justice module of the GPP is standardized, allowing for comparisons across countries in different regions and with varying levels of economic development. This module can therefore provide a framework and benchmarks for understanding legal needs and public access to civil justice across a large number of countries, and contribute to the development and adoption of robust legal needs survey-based indicators for measuring progress on access to justice as part of SDG target 16.3.