Law affects most aspects of our daily lives; it shape's our life choices and our relationships. Yet many of us don't understand the legal system, or know about our legal rights and how best to exercise them. Law-related events such as relationship breakdown or employment problems can cause worry, stress, and even lead to ill-health or the loss of a home or income.
Public legal education aims to equip people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to understand about rights and obligations, and to know how and where to get help. Being able to manage law-related issues means people can prevent problems and pursue opportunites, and encourages civic engagement and community action.
What is public legal education?
Public legal education aims at increasing our capacity to deal with legal issues - by improving our understanding of the law, explaining when and how to take action, or by making better choices and avoiding problems.
Public legal education projects
Here you’ll find a selection of PLE projects that give a flavour of the diversity of PLE initiatives. We’ve arranged them by broad themes including awareness raising, access to justice, self-help and community development.
What is Plenet?
Here you'll find out about the Public Legal Education Network; what we're doing to continue the development of successful public legal education, and how you can get involved and keep up with our progress.
Research and Evaluation
Good evaluation is at the heart of the development of better PLE, and good research is at the core of better evaluation. Without both, PLE will not thrive.
Better Information
ASA's Advicenow has started a new project to produce a handbook for information providers. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of rights and legal information available to the public. Can you help?
Classifying information
The CCS is a 'content classification scheme' designed to help you store or display information for the public on rights and legal issues. Here we explain how it works and how it can benefit your organisation and your users.
