in Australia? The Legal Australia-Wide (LAW) Survey examined the manner in which respondents finalised their

legal problems and whether the manner of finalisation depended on the type of problem. This paper summarises these findings. Most commonly, legal problems were finalised through agreement with the other side (30%) or as a result of the respondent not pursuing the matter at all or deciding not to pursue the matter further (30%). While only a minority of legal problems (3.4%) were finalised through legal proceedings in a court or tribunal, 24 per cent of family problems were concluded via this means.