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Legal advice - Women and men received legal advice in equal numbers in the 2005-2006 year.
- Legal advices to women have slightly increased.
- Women have outnumbered men in this area. Last year was the only period that men outnumbered women.
Representation
- As in previous years, men outnumber women in their applications and approvals for legal aid. The reason is due to the high number of applications for criminal law matters and the non discretionary clause for prescribed criminal matters
- Women received 60.9% of grants of aid for the family law area and 74.8% of grants of aid for the civil law area. Both percentages are above the benchmark for women which is 59%.
- Women continue to dominate in grants of legal aid for family and civil law matters
Indigenous women
- Indigenous women received approximately 3.9% of the total advices provided to women across the state. This is a decrease in both percentage and numbers from the previous year.
- The percentage of legal advice to Indigenous women is lower than the established benchmark (5%) in family law and slightly higher in civil law.
- The numbers of Indigenous women and men applying for aid overall has decreased from the previous year.
- The rate at which applications made by Indigenous women are granted aid is higher than the state average for women.
Non-English-speaking women
- For the first time, women from non-English-speaking backgrounds have not outnumbered men in their access to legal advice.
- The rate at which applications made by women from a non-English-speaking background are granted aid is 68.34%. This is slightly lower than the previous year and it is also lower than the rate that all application made to Legal Aid Queensland by women are granted aid,which is 70.99%
- There was a slight increase in the numbers of applications received by women from non-English- speaking backgrounds. However, overall there has been a decrease in the number of applications received from people from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
Women with a disability
- The numbers of legal advices provided to women with disabilities have increased slightly from the previous year but continue to be lower than the population average.
- Applications from women with disabilities have decreased as a percentage and as numbers in comparison to last years. However applications from people with disabilities have slightly increased from last year.
- The rate in which applications made by women with disabilities are granted aid is lower than that rate for women.
Young women
- Overall young people's access to legal advice has decreased from the previous year.
- Despite the fact that the percentage of young women access to legal advice is higher than the previous year, young women's continue to access legal advice in lower numbers than young men, largely due to the concentrated number of young men involved in the criminal justice area of law.
- Young women have continued to access legal advice for civil law more than any other area of law.
- Again this year, young women made more applications for aid in the criminal law area than previous years.
- The rate in which applications made by young women are granted aid is higher than the state average for women.
Rural and regional women
- People from rural and regional areas received 44.49% of all legal advices.
- Women from rural and regional areas received 48.73% of the legal advices provided in regional Queensland.
- Women from rural and regional areas mostly made applications for aid are in the family law area.
- The rate in applications, made by women from rural and regional areas, granted aid is lower than the average rate for women.