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Legal Laneway Breakfast travels back to Ballarat for 2024
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.
Welcoming the new legal year with the 21st Legal Laneway Breakfast
Members of Victoria’s justice sector gathered this morning for the 21st annual Legal Laneway Breakfast to welcome the 2024 legal year
PULS Volume 2: Understanding and Capability is now available
Today we launch the second volume of our key research project, the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS).
Legal Concierge program paving the way to justice
Assistance strategies that help to connect people in need with services that can help them can make a big difference.
Congratulations to the 2023/24 Knowledge Grant recipients
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.
Notes from the International Forum on Access to Justice
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.
Read about our impact and activity from 2022-23
We’re delighted to launch the Victoria Law Foundation Annual Report.
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Examining racial profiling by police through COVID-19 lockdown fines
Inner Melbourne Community Legal collaborated with experts to investigate how race impacted issuance of police COVID-19 fines.
Law Talks travel to Bendigo
VLF connects students of the Loddon Campaspe region with Court of Appeal Judges and legal experts to learn about the legal system, career pathways within the legal sector, and their legal rights.
Reflecting on a 10-year term as the Victorian Ombudsman
Thank you to all who tuned-in to our In Conversation event with Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass.
PULS Volume 1 shows gaps in how people understand and engage with the law
Today Victoria Law Foundation launched the first report from the ground-breaking research project - the Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS).
Blazing into the future: vision for change at the Magistrates’ Court
Chief Magistrate Justice Lisa Hannan outlined the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria’s (MCV) rapid digital uptake, and new Service Centre, and the multiple benefits for both court and community, as her main thrust at Law Week.
VLF’s final Data Mapping Project report: Calibrating Justice
The final report in the Data Mapping Project summarises the findings and implications to support an accessible, modern civil justice system.
New triage approach makes the difference
We visited our friends at Eastern Community Legal Centre recently and had a chat to senior lead Donna Askew, about the Centre’s enhanced intake and triage service model.
Funding for new community legal initiatives and projects
From 1 July the Victoria Law Foundation 2023/24 Grant Program will be available.
Helping to identify the law in the everyday
Victorian Law Week made learning about the law easy for thousands of people with a program of over 200 events held throughout the state, including in-person, online, and on-demand.
How Victorians experience and resolve family problems
Our companion PULS In brief publications reveal that family problems, though less common, are Victoria’s most damaging legal issues with the highest unmet need.