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Increased funding to build capability and respond to legal need
We have streamlined our grant offering with new processes, eligibility criteria and project timelines.
Everyone’s turning 50!
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.
That's a wrap on Law Week 2024
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.
Many of life’s problems can have legal answers
The 2024 Victorian Law Week program is now live.
Do justice solutions measure up?
What works to meet legal need in the Victorian community? A new project by Victoria Law Foundation aims to find out.
Research Network: people-centred research a key to unlock access to justice
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.
An inclusive and trauma-informed approach to encouraging self-advocacy
Updating resources to help women and gender-diverse people understand their rights and powers when dealing with separation and stalking.
Funding to support new legal initiatives and projects
Community Legal Grant applications are now open
Joining the conversation at the 2024 Civil Justice Research Conference
Victorian Law Foundation shares insights on two upcoming research reports with scholars at the trans-Tasman Civil Justice Research Conference.
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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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Courts, Community and Confidence
Join Chief Justice Richard Niall a for a recorded conversation about the law’s role in our community and the challenges shaping justice today.