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Five organisations will receive Grants to improve Victorians’ access to legal information and services.

June 24, 2024
Family violence
First Nations
Legal education
Legal capability
Community Legal Grant projects announced
June 24, 2024
Grants

We have streamlined our grant offering with new processes, eligibility criteria and project timelines.

June 19, 2024
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Increased funding to build capability and respond to legal need
June 19, 2024
Grants

With parts of the legal assistance sector now reaching 50 years old, we need to rethink how law is done to ensure it can provide timely and fair help to Victorians with legal problems.

June 4, 2024
Access to Justice
Legal assistance
Everyone’s turning 50!
June 4, 2024
VLF

Explore the highlights from our Victorian Law Week 2024 activity! From eye-opening events to regional community outreach efforts, Law Week is all about making the law easier for Victorians to understand and access.

May 29, 2024
Law Week
Legal assistance
That's a wrap on Law Week 2024
May 29, 2024
Event

The 2024 Victorian Law Week program is now live.

April 8, 2024
Law Week
Many of life’s problems can have legal answers
April 8, 2024
Event

What works to meet legal need in the Victorian community? A new project by Victoria Law Foundation aims to find out.

April 3, 2024
Access to Justice
Legal need
Do justice solutions measure up?
April 3, 2024
Research

Research Network welcomed Professor Rebecca Sandefur and Matthew Burnett, in discussion with VLF's Dr Georgina Rychner and Bridget McAloon, to explore the frontier projects in access to justice research on a global and local scale.

March 27, 2024
Access to Justice
Legal assistance
Legal capability
Legal need
Research
Research Network: people-centred research a key to unlock access to justice
March 27, 2024
Research

Updating resources to help women and gender-diverse people understand their rights and powers when dealing with separation and stalking.

March 4, 2024
Case Study
Women
LGBTIQ
Legal assistance
An inclusive and trauma-informed approach to encouraging self-advocacy
March 4, 2024
Grants

Community Legal Grant applications are now open

March 1, 2024
Grants
Funding to support new legal initiatives and projects
March 1, 2024
Grants

Victorian Law Foundation shares insights on two upcoming research reports with scholars at the trans-Tasman Civil Justice Research Conference.

February 12, 2024
Young people
Research
Peer education
PULS
Joining the conversation at the 2024 Civil Justice Research Conference
February 12, 2024
Research

More than 40 legal professionals from Ballarat and surrounding areas joined keynote speakers to open the legal year at Ballarat's 2nd Legal Laneway Breakfast.

February 9, 2024
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Legal Laneway Breakfast travels back to Ballarat for 2024
February 9, 2024
Event

Members of Victoria’s justice sector gathered this morning for the 21st annual Legal Laneway Breakfast to welcome the 2024 legal year

February 8, 2024
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Welcoming the new legal year with the 21st Legal Laneway Breakfast
February 8, 2024
Event

Today we launch the second volume of our key research project, the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS).

February 7, 2024
Legal capability
Research
PULS Volume 2: Understanding and Capability is now available
February 7, 2024
Research

Assistance strategies that help to connect people in need with services that can help them can make a big difference.

December 14, 2023
Access to Justice
Legal assistance
Legal Concierge program paving the way to justice
December 14, 2023
Research

We are excited to support these four projects as they enhance research skills and develop a deeper understanding of the legal needs of the community.

November 9, 2023
Grants
Family violence
Housing
Congratulations to the 2023/24 Knowledge Grant recipients
November 9, 2023
Grants

A great reminder that we’re not alone in the issues we face, and that smart people are working on clever responses to sticky problems to get help to people for their everyday legal problems.

November 6, 2023
Access to Justice
Legal assistance
Notes from the International Forum on Access to Justice
November 6, 2023
Research
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Major Grants are now open

We support investigations into civil legal problems, projects that develop data capability or new approaches responding to community legal need.