Along with Mr Alastair McEwin (Director Community Legal Centres NSW), Dr Stubbs demonstrated how Australian and International legal needs research is being used to inform and change the methods and focus of service delivery by community legal centres to better target legal need experienced by disadvantaged Australians.  

In 2009 JSA completed and has since been rolling out a Legal Needs and Strategic Planning Project for Community Legal Centres NSW (CLCNSW). The project developed a model strategic planning process to assist community legal centres to better meet legal need within their communities through identifying "met" and "unmet" need through a range of qualitative and quantitative data. To date, JSA has worked with five community legal centres to implement the model, which is documented in the Legal Needs Strategic Planning Toolkit.

The Legal Needs Assessment Framework developed to inform the process will soon be rolled out nationally by JSA in partnership with the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC). More information may be found on the CLCNSW website here .