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Defamation in Action: For VCE Legal Studies
VCE Legal Studies: Case study suitable for classroom or online learning.
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Civil Liability: For VCE Legal Studies
VCE Legal Studies exercises are suitable for classroom or online learning.
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Recommended Readings and Recordings on Australian Problem-Solving Courts
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PULS
PULS answers
The answers to the questions asked as part of the PULS. You can correct answers, why the answer is what it is, and find out about some of organisations that help when people face problems like these.
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VCE Legal Studies | Unit 2 Exam Preparation
Exam Preparation by David Thomson, Victoria Law Foundation (VLF) Teacher in Residence.
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VCE Legal Studies | Units 3 and 4 Exam Preparation
VCE Legal Studies Unit 4 Exam Preparation by David Thomson, VLF Teacher in Residence.
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The Constitution
The Australian Constitution: An Overview Designed for VCE Legal Studies
VLF Teacher in Residence: David Thomson OAM, breaks down the constitution's formation and utility.
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Voting
Vote ready resources
This talk highlights the importance of voting, and outlines how to vote and how our voting system works; ultimately providing an invaluable resource educating young people about the ins and outs of voting. This talk is especially relevant for students who will be voting for the first time in the upcoming State election.
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Employment
Principles of Employment Law: Awards
Solicitors from the Young Workers Centre, Tiarne Crowther and Leon Harper, provide valuable information about Industrial Awards and the rights provided to workers under awards
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Community Justice in Practice: The Neighbourhood Justice Centre
The team from the Neighbourhood Justice Centre outline how they support the community and uphold justice in a holistic way, combining a court, support services, legal agencies, and a program and innovation team under one roof.
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First Nations
First Nations People and the Justice System: VCE Factsheet
This factsheet provides statistics for students and teachers to use in their studies of VCE Legal Studies specifically in relation to references the 2024-2028 Legal Studies curriculum has regarding First Nation Peoples
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Housing and tenancy
Renter's stories
YouTube playlist of Tenants Victoria's video stories
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Measuring legal capability
Justice and the Capability to Function in Society
Pascoe Pleasence and Nigel Balmer discuss the place of legal capability in the global tradition of legal needs surveys. They set out the importance of understanding legal capability in informing “bottom-up” access to justice policy.
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Financial Capability Research in Australia
Roslyn Russell, Jozica Kutin and Tracey Marriner provide a snapshot of Australian research landscape on financial capability – a closely related field to legal capability.
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Measuring legal capability
Reshaping Legal Assistance Services: Building on the Evidence Base
Pascoe Pleasence, Christine Coumarelos, Suzie Forell, and Hugh McDonald review evidence demonstrating how legal problem-solving is patterned by people’s circumstances and explore how the concept of legal capability helps explain research findings. They also discuss how legal assistance can be better matched to the legal needs and capability of diverse users.
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Wrong about Rights: Public Knowledge of Key Areas of Consumer, Housing and Employment Law in England and Wales
Article by Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel Balmer and Catrina Denvir examining public knowledge of rights - a key dimension of capability - in key areas relating to consumer, housing and employment law.
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Measuring legal capability
Assessing Access to Justice: How Much “Legal” Do People Need and How Can We Know?
Hugh McDonald discusses how the shift to user-centric approaches to access to justice and legal needs requires a commensurate shift in the empirical methods and measures used to assess access to justice.
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Legal Capability and Inaction for Legal Problems: Knowledge, Stress and Cost
Hugh McDonald and Julie People use Australian national legal needs survey data to examine how knowledge, stress and cost factors whether people take action in response to legal problems. The findings show how deficiencies in legal capability can manifest a ‘paralysing’ effect resulting in inaction.
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Understanding legal capability
Legal capability is the capability to achieve fair outcomes to problems involving law.
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Perceived Inaccessibility of Courts (PIC) Scale
A simple to administer 10-item scale designed to measure extent to which people think of courts as inaccessible.
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Measuring legal capability
Perceived Inaccessibility of Lawyers (PIL) Scale
A simple to administer 10-item scale designed to measure the extent to which people think of lawyers as inaccessible.
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The Australian Constitution
Notes for Legal Studies students on the "People and the Australian Constitution" section of the Study Design - updated as of June 2025.
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The Education Blog
Check out the Parliament of Victoria's latest news and updates for teachers, supporting civics education in Victorian classrooms.
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Refugees and asylum seekers
Disability
Legal information, translations and accessibility supports
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Victoria Legal Aid's recent work in creating accessibility supports for information on their website Meet the team behind the information and hear about the research and consultation that went into making accessible content for people who need communication supports, including easy read, Auslan and translations
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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.