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What works to meet legal need in the Victorian community? A new project by Victoria Law Foundation aims to find out.
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.
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This first volume updates the broad picture of access to justice and legal need, explores how justiciable problems are experienced, what people do about them, and how they progress and conclude.
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A program giving final-year VCE students a head start to prepare for Year 12 Legal Studies.
Develop your legal initiative or project
Financial support and advice for legal and community organisations to develop projects that understand and respond to community legal need.
Featured funded projects
Delivery of community legal education to help culturally and linguistically diverse young people increase their literacy on family violence issues and shift attitudes that allow it to occur.
A video project designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how it can benefit Victorians.
Updating two of WIRE’s high distribution information booklets - Separation & Property and Stalking to include changes in legislation, support agency information and accessibility to meet the needs of the audience.
A set of videos that discuss how people who can neither afford a lawyer or access public legal services use digital self-help resources to navigate tenancy legal issues and the relevant legal frameworks.
PULS Volume 2: Understanding and Capability is now available
Explore the knowledge, skills and attributes that are required to effectively understand and use the law.