Grants recipients

To produce an educational resource that explains the organisations family law/violence programs and provides a road map for clients and allied service providers as to how to use programs to navigate the family law system.

Through the development of videos and community legal education, Refugee Legal aims to increase community awareness and referrals to the legal service to ensure women on temporary visas or without visas who are experiencing family violence have an understanding of their legal rights and know how to access them.

Production of a series of short videos and a handbook to help Aboriginal people identify common civil legal issues, with information on how to contact the legal service for advice. These materials will be promoted online to maximise impact, particularly among Aboriginal youth and in regional and remote areas.

This project will employ a lawyer to run a fines clinic for women to understand, navigate and make applications under the fines/infringements system to have their fines waived on the basis of special circumstances and family violence.

To coordinate a workshop and seek sector collaboration to develop a plan to advocate for improvements to Victoria’s youth justice system.

During Law Week 2017, Eastern Community Legal Centre will host events across five Whitehorse and Manningham libraries, where the community can learn more about the legal system or test their knowledge of the law in a game of Legal Lingo Bingo.

In partnership with the Law Institute of Victoria, Justice Connect will relaunch the Walk for Justice during Law Week 2017 in Melbourne and Geelong. The walk aims to engage the public on issues of access to justice; unmet legal need and free assistance of lawyers; and bring together people who share a common commitment to social justice.

Information sessions on discrimination and legal rights at Fitzroy and Richmond libraries during Law Week 2017.

In Law Week 2017, three information sessions on wills and powers of attorney will be held at local libraries for seniors residing in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne.

Bendigo Writers Festival will deliver two writers events at the Dunolly Courthouse in Law Week 2017.

St Kilda Legal Service will undertake focus group testing to inform the future delivery of a legal information resource for sex workers.

Tarwirri will develop a week of programming to promote and raise awareness of legal and policy issues affecting the Indigenous community in Victoria during Law Week 2017.

Council on the Ageing will develop a new practical and easy to use guide to assist the surviving partner and family to navigate the system.

The Federation of Community Legal Centres will undertake a redevelopment of the Community Law website to better engage and communicate with its members, the broader community, the media, and policy and decision-makers.

To provide transport for local Legal Studies students to attend a Law Week 2016 presentation by local lawyer, Veronica Haccou, who was on the team that acted for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukarmaran who were sentenced to death and executed in Indonesia.

A legal health pop-up station during Law Week to assist people within the St Kilda catchment area identify legal issues and where they can get assistance.

A grant to produce culturally appropriate, plain English factsheets regarding Victorian legislation and policies concerning criminal record checks.

A grant to fund a performance by Melbourne Lawyers’ Orchestra, Habeas Chorus and Monash University Choral Society during Law Week 2016.

An entertaining and informative public event held at the Wheeler Centre where a panel of high-profile comedians and lawyers discussed and debated ridiculous laws.

During Law Week 2016, Bendigo Writers Festival in collaboration with Dunolly Historic Precinct will present Gideon Haigh, author of true crime Certain Admissions, in conversation with Magistrate Richard Wright and lawyer Brian Bourke.

For the production of five web-based factsheets on social security rights.

The Office of the Public Advocate will provide information to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities on powers of attorney through a series of Law Week events.

The Supreme Court of Victoria will update their Education Program to be a more engaging and interactive experience for VCE Legal Studies students.

This Law Week project will present a panel discussion Youths and the Law where experts and young people will discuss issues relating to young people and the law.

Funds were provided to print copies of an updated version of Social media safety: sexual assault and reporting options.

A documentary about the rise and fall of the disability rights movement.

Funding for this project allowed for the redevelopment of the National Trust’s popular culpable driving education program. The program engages students with the case of a young man charged with culpable driving in the County Court.

A plain language information toolkit designed to support parents navigating the mandatory Family Court process required to obtain medical treatment.

This grant provided funding to produce a series of ten short videos, hosted by Lizzie O’Shea who talks to Australia’s key legal minds, explores important cases and reveals how Australian law works.

For the continuation, development and expansion of the Victorian Bar choir’s work within the legal profession and the wider community. The choir provides a creative outlet for barristers in response to high depression rates within the legal profession.

Development of a brochure and delivery of community legal education focusing on Islamophobic abuse.

This grant funded the recording of community radio announcements in Vietnamese and Mandarin providing referral information for family law, domestic violence and immigration law issues that arise in situations of domestic violence.

A twelve month pilot in which Inner Melbourne Community Legal will provide free legal advice to patients and their families on legal issues that may impact their health and/or family’s capacity to care for their sick child. The program will consist of a weekly legal clinic at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital.

A new online information hub providing practical legal resources to explain how the law applies to volunteers, and building community organisations’ capacity to deal with legal issues related to volunteers themselves.

To scope the legal needs of hospital patients in order to create training material for hospital staff and to identify the best ways to deliver legal services in hospital settings. This will inform a larger project that will eventually provide pro bono legal services at three hospitals in Victoria.

A grant to fund the creation of six downloadable employment-law factsheets.

To enable increased functionality of the website, including more adaptable web fonts, that make the website more accessible to more members of the public.

This project investigated the Children and Young Person Infringement Notice System (CAYPINS) and examine why young people received fines and why they pay or do not pay them.

Youthlaw were funded to conduct legal education sessions over twelve months to vulnerable and marginalised young people in inner Melbourne, outer urban and rural Victoria.

A grant to produce a booklet on the legal rights of people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) for their support networks.

As part of an update of Smart Justice resources, ten factsheets were updated, four infographics were created and one new factsheet was produced.

A grant to fund two focus groups to look at the content and format of Sexual assault, the law, your rights as a victim brochure.

A grant to fund the sending of lawyers to disaster areas to provide legal advice on insurance matters.

A grant was awarded to fund a pilot program for an app that aggregated and displayed information from the La Trobe University Law Students' Association and automatically distributed it to its members.

A grant to provide partialy fund a conference to facilitate a thorough judicial and academic analysis of Victorian human rights under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic).

This project was funded to create a new state-wide Discrimination Law Clinic to help the legal and community sector to identify and address all types of discrimination, including age, race, religion, gender and disability discrimination.

A grant to fund the training of medical practitioners to identify and refer people who need legal help to an appropriate legal service.

A grant to fund support for isolated people with intellectual disabilities to make their own decisions by matching them with an appropriately trained volunteer.

For the production of an online guide of public interest and community law sector careers for Victorian lawyers and law students.

This grant funded in-depth research into the issue of grooming in Victoria.

A grant to develop and distribute a new information booklet for women in Victoria who are at risk of, or are suffering from, financial abuse.

A grant was awarded to develop an interactive webpage to engage with the community and enhance access to justice.

A grant to conduct a pilot project with the four libraries in the City of Wyndham to help library users lodge disputes and complaints online using library computers, and to produce a comprehensive complaints manual provided by the legal service.

A grant to fund the production of The vagina monologues, culminating in two performances.

To use the popular game of bingo to provide a short, simple and fun introduction to deeming concepts.

To redevelop the website for Casey Cardinia Community Legal Service.

A grant to fund an exhibition of Sir Redmond Barry documents and artefacts. There are few who could claim to have had such a fundamental impact on the development of Victoria's cultural, educational and legal landscape as Sir Redmond Barry (1813–1880).

A grant was awarded to fund a mobile exhibition on the international humanitarian legal rights and services available to Victorians.

A grant to fund a forum to commemorate the achievement of community legal centres over the past 40 years and to discuss the future directions for the sector.

A grant developed a webpage, 'Hub for youth legal issues'.

A grant was awarded to fund a short documentary about elder abuse called Ghost train.

This grant was awarded to fund research into the experiences of people with default judgments awarded against them for debt-related problems.

To develop 10 articles containing legal information to improve the safety of street-based sex workers, and to produce information pens.

A grant to commission a study into issues surrounding conflicts of interest in rural and regional areas.

Funding was used to distribute information to site tenants living in caravan and residential parks across Victoria about their right to establish residents’ committees.

A live radio show from inside Victorian prisons, giving a voice to incarcerated Indigenous men and women.

This grant was used to fund La Trobe Law School’s research into the current legal issues and experiences of Indigenous youth in three rural towns, focusing on their experiences of policing and experiences within the justice system.

A grant to fund the documentary launch and premiere screening of the film Even girls play footy.

A grant to produce and air three announcements that provide legal information in an accessible and easy-to-understand format for migrant women in Victoria.

A grant to fund the production and distribution of a postcard warning young people about the dangers of sexting.

To develop and publish Promoting justice through clinical legal education.

A grant to improve the interactions newly arrived young people have with criminal justice and legal organisations.

A grant to develop a video dramatisation of the DPP v Daniel Jones case study. The video will be used for legal education at Australian universities as part of the Advocacy manual: the complete guide to persuasive advocacy.

This grant was used to fund the publication costs of the May 2012 edition of Parity magazine.

A grant to produce a DVD marketed to the youth sector and secondary students to give young people an overview of the legal issues affecting them and how Youthlaw and other legal services can help.

A grant to identify and determine the major legal issues and experiences of youth in four youth hubs in the western suburbs: Sunshine, Melton, Wyndham and Footscray.

About the project This project examined why a high number of clients experiencing financial hardship are sued by local councils for unpaid rates.

A grant to fund a documentary about three girls who took Football Victoria to VCAT.

A grant to develop an online, personalised and interactive facility that will lead users through the important legal and personal questions when considering an enduring power of attorney.

Anex were funded to investigate the legislative changes required for the introduction of syringe programs in Victorian prisons.

To continue the bulk negotiation project with insurance and finance companies to write off debt for low income people and people with special circumstances.

Safe keeping – a guide to managing the affairs of missing persons explains what you can do to manage the affairs of someone who goes missing and where to find help.

This grant was awarded to fund the transfer of material from Rural Law Online to Environmental Law Online.

A grant to fund the production of the social justice careers guide.

A grant to fund the editing and indexing costs associated with publishing the manuscript written by Bryan Keon-Cohen QC on the Mabo case.

A grant to translate a leaflet containing legal information into three Pasifika languages.

A grant for the initial funding for the Criminal Bar Association quarterly bulletin.

To translate the Magistrates' Court Client Service Charter and brochure What registry staff can and cannot do for you into six community languages.

A grant was awarded to fund a youth-focused performance piece on the the Victorian Human Rights Charter.

Victorian Deaf Society was awarded a grant to train interpreters to assist those with hearing difficulties in court.

A grant to fund the promotion of a pilot community legal centre in the Goulburn Valley.

To publish a number of resources: 'Build communities, not prisons' postcard campaign; report on CALD women in Victorian prisons; decarceration poster; storytelling project.