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Courts, Community and Confidence: A conversation with the Chief Justice
Chief Justice Richard Niall and VLF Executive Director Lynne Haultain in a conversation about the law and the challenges facing justice today.
Video
Events
December 18, 2025
Research tools
Small Area Modelling interactive map
An interactive map that illustrates the predicted prevalence of civil legal problems across the state of Victoria.
Research tool
Research
December 10, 2025
Legal education
Scientific Disciplines Researching Play
A summary of the broad range of play research conducted in universities around the world under the auspices of over twenty scientific disciplines.
Website
Learn
November 20, 2025
Legal education
Young people
Three Questions with Sporting Change
South-East Monash Legal create this video to demonstrate a novel approach to community legal education. The video accompanied the Enhancing Engagement Webinar November 2025
Video
Learn
November 20, 2025
Family violence
Reproductive coercion and abuse: A guide for community legal practitioners
South-East Monash Legal Service (SMLS) developed this guide to support community legal practitioners to better understand, recognise, and respond to reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA).
Guide
Grants
November 11, 2025
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2024-25 Annual Report
A year of renewal, growth and engagement across the justice and community sector. Our work in research, education and grants helped to build legal capability and improve access to justice for all Victorians.
Annual report
VLF
November 10, 2025
Employment
Am I a Casual? website
The Young Workers Centre has developed a range of resources to empower young workers with the knowledge and skills needed to end workplace insecurity.
Website
Learn
October 15, 2025
Employment
Am I a casual? fact sheet
Advice for young workers in casual employment about converting to ongoing employment under recent changes in the Closing Loopholes legislation.
Factsheet
Learn
October 15, 2025
Research
Ethics
National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2025)
A series of guidelines made in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992.
Guidelines
Grants
October 1, 2025
Housing and tenancy
Lived experience
Research
Excessive rent increase as a single parent | Macy shares her experience
Why is lived experience important in research? As a single parent, Macy was distraught when an excessive rent increase came her way.
Video
Research
September 10, 2025
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Legal needs and housing status: Insights from the Public Understanding of Law Survey - Research Network September 2025
Presentation slides for the September 2025 Research Network webinar featuring insights from Victoria Law Foundation's Public Understanding of Law Survey on housing status.
Presentation
Research
September 10, 2025
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SPR presentation - Hannah Gray - Research Network September 2025
Presentation slides for the September 2025 Research Network webinar featuring Tenants Victoria's Restricted, Resilient, Resourceful: Legal Help-Seeking Among Single-Parent Renters research project.
Presentation
Research
September 10, 2025
Consent
Research
Research tools
Template: Informed Consent Checklist
A template to ensure that you have covered the necessary information in your participant information sheet or verbal script for consent.
Template
Grants
July 31, 2025
First Nations
Native title
The Mabo Case from Terra Nullius to Native Title
Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen’s account and perspective during his time as junior barrister in the case.
Case Study
Learn
July 15, 2025
Litigation
Environment
Franklin Dam Case
Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen’s recollections of the Tasmanian Dam case reflecting on the legal strategy, courtroom experience, and broader implications of the case.
Case Study
Learn
July 15, 2025
Housing and tenancy
Restricted, Resilient, Resourceful: Legal help-seeking among single-parent renters – Condensed report
A summary of the key findings and recommendations, access the condensed version of the report investigating how single-parent renters in Victoria experience rental stress, legal help barriers, and housing insecurity.
Summary
Grants
June 11, 2025
Housing and tenancy
Restricted, resilient, resourceful: Legal help-seeking among single-parent renters
The report investigates how single-parent renters in Victoria experience rental stress, legal help barriers, and housing insecurity.
Report
Grants
June 11, 2025
Headstart
Class Actions: VCE Factsheet
This factsheet provides information and explains Class Actions using examples 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 Class Actions.
Factsheet
Learn
June 2, 2025
Parliament
The Constitution
The Protection of Rights in Australia (Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen)
Relevant to Unit 2, AOS 3 & Unit 4 AOS 1 of the Victorian Legal Studies Study Design 2024 and onwards.
This is a summary of the context and case of Koowarta, who made a claim on the basis of section 109, invalidity between Commonwealth and State Law, where the question was asked: Does the Federal Government have the right to legislate the Anti-Discrimination Act?
Study Notes
Learn
April 15, 2025
Health
Evaluation
Data systems and processes
Evaluating the Outcomes of First Step Legal’s Health Justice Partnerships
The report evaluated First Step Legal’s integrated legal-health services. The findings point to improved client wellbeing, legal confidence, access to justice, and staff satisfaction and recommends broader adoption of such partnerships.
Report
Grants
April 1, 2025
Health
Research
Lessons learned in building internal evaluation capacity
Report
Research
April 1, 2025
Health
Evaluation
First Step Legal - Summary Evaluation Findings 2024
A short summary of key findings and insights from the evaluation of First Step Legal’s integrated legal-health services. The findings point to improved client wellbeing, legal confidence, access to justice, and staff satisfaction and recommends broader adoption of such partnerships.
Summary
Research
April 1, 2025
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Evaluating the Outcomes of First Step Legal’s Health Justice Partnerships
Presentation
Research
April 1, 2025
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Insights from the PULS
Are legal problems bad for your health? Are health issues bad for your law? Insights from the PULS.
Presentation
Research
April 1, 2025
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.