Measuring our performance

Annual Report 2021 - 2022

We measure our performance against a range of key performance indicators to determine our effectiveness in providing community awareness, in ensuring accessibility to legal aid, and in upholding our service standards.

Key performance indicators2019–202020–212021–22
Community awareness of legal rights and responsibilities
Client satisfaction*N/A76%N/A
Information services we provided196,435170,98186,873
Advice and minor assistance services we provided125,00119,003105,655
Number of publications distributed495,680420,145299,055
Accessibility of legal aid
Means test income limit as a percentage of national minimum weekly wage54.0%53.1%51.8%
Percentage of Local Court sittings served by duty solicitor schemes100%100%100%
Representation service standards
Percentage of satisfactory comprehensive in-house file reviews97.9%97.3%98.3%
Number of Legal Aid NSW lawyers with specialist accreditation606164

*We measure client satisfaction through surveys conducted every two years. The methodology and scope of the 2020–2021 survey differed from past surveys in that it covered grants and advice clients, and client responses were collected through both online surveys and phone interviews. The comparable client satisfaction figures for grants clients who responded via telephone interviews only was 83% in 2020–2021.

Legal aid commissions, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services and community legal centres receive Commonwealth funding to improve access to justice for disadvantaged people under the National Legal Assistance Partnership (NLAP) 2020–2025.

As part of our responsibilities under this partnership, we reported the number of legal assistance services we provided including service types and law types, facilitated resolution processes and their outcomes, and the number and proportion of representation services we delivered to priority clients.

Performance indicatorPercentage
Proportion of Legal Aid NSW Commonwealth representation services delivered to people experiencing financial disadvantage99.0%
Proportion of facilitated resolution conferences held by Legal Aid NSW that resulted in either partial or full settlement74.7%*

*Commonwealth conferences only. The combined total for NSW and Commonwealth conferences was 75%.