{"id":221629,"date":"2026-01-23T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-hold-positive-views-on-access-to-justice-though-few-are-aware-of-legal-aid-services\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:38:06","slug":"zambians-hold-positive-views-on-access-to-justice-though-few-are-aware-of-legal-aid-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-hold-positive-views-on-access-to-justice-though-few-are-aware-of-legal-aid-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Hold Positive Views On Access to Justice, Though Few Are Aware of Legal-Aid Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Majority express confidence that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than six in 10 Zambians (62%) say they feel &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; or &#8220;very confident&#8221; that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts. But 36% express little or no confidence.<\/li>\n<li>At least six in 10 citizens say they could probably find legal advice (60%) and afford to take a legal problem to court (64%), if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Similar proportions think such a case would be resolved fairly (63%) and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority express confidence that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts. Key findings More than six in 10 Zambians (62%) say they feel &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; or &#8220;very confident&#8221; that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts. But 36% express little or no confidence. At least six in 10 citizens say they could probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[6450,258,256,14584,7204,6852,53476,257,6594,7155,254,14742,881,9005],"class_list":["post-221629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aware","tag-hold","tag-justice","tag-legalaid","tag-news","tag-positive","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-views","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}