The Legal Problems of Everyday Life - The Nature, Extent and Consequences of Justiciable Problems Experienced by Canadians

Figure 18: Percent Who Feel the Laws and the Justice System Are Fair by Number of Problems and Appearing in Court or at a Tribunal

Figure 18 is a double columned bar graph that illustrates the percentage of respondents who feel the laws and the justice system are fair according to the number of justiciable problems they reported and whether they appeared in court or at a tribunal. The x-axis displays the number of justiciable problems the respondents reported: one, two and three or more. Each category has two columns: Court or tribunal and no court or tribunal. The y-axis represents the percentage of respondents in each category who indicated they felt the laws and the justice system in Canadian society are essentially fair . It ranges from 0 to 80. Respondents with two or three or more problems reported a higher proportion of feelings of fairness when they did not use courts or tribunals while those with one problem indicated a higher proportion of feelings of fairness when they did use courts or tribunals. Of those who reported one justiciable problem, 66.8% who did not use court felt the system was fair and 76.5% who used court felt the system was fair. Of those who reported two problems, 64.1% who did not use the court felt the system was fair and 50% who used court felt the system was fair. Of those who reported three or more problems, 54.9% who did not use the court felt the system was fair and 45.9% who used court felt the system was fair.