Pleasence, PT; Balmer, NJ; (2018) Legal Confidence and Attitudes to Law: Baseline Measures and Social Patterning. Legal Education Foundation: London, UK.

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Abstract

This report sets out the baseline general population scores, along with details of the social and experience based patterning of scores, for five standardised measures of legal confidence and attitudes to law recently developed by the authors under a grant from the Legal Education Foundation. The measures are the General Legal Confidence (GLC), the Legal Self-Efficacy (LEF) scale, the Legal Anxiety (LAX) scale, the Inaccessibility of Justice (IOJ) scale, and the Perceived Inequality of Justice (PIJ) scale. Final development of the measures utilised data from a nationally representative hybrid form of postal and online survey of 1,061 adults (16 years of age or over) across England and Wales. The findings set out in this report are based on further analyses of the same survey data. The baseline mean scores (out of 100) for the five scales were 48 (GLC), 57 (LEF), 46 (LAX), 58 (IOJ) and 53 (PIJ) (details in Table 1). Higher scores relate to higher legal confidence (GLC), legal self-efficacy (LEF), legal anxiety (LAX), perceived inaccessibility of justice (IOJ) and perceived inequality of justice (PIJ). There were highly significant relationships between all of the scales.

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