News

• Launch of the Bendigo Legal Assistance Forum
  Date: 16 Nov 2009
  A new legal assistance forum makes its mark in Bendigo
• VLA amongst LIV award winners
  Date: 16 Nov 2009
  Several VLA staff and Board member Mary Anne Noone were honoured at the Law Institute of Victoria's annual awards.
• New edition of Briefcase calls for more family funding
  Date: 16 Nov 2009
  The December edition of Briefcase includes a call from Attorney-General Rob Hulls for more Commonwealth funding for family law matters.
• New summary criminal justice procedures
  Date: 22 Oct 2009
  Feedback is invited from anyone affected by pilots currently underway of the new processes in summary procedure.
• 2008-09 annual report released
  Date: 15 Oct 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid's fourteenth statutory annual report was tabled in State Parliament this morning.
• 2010 Indigenous Summer Clerkship Program
  Date: 25 Sep 2009
  Applications are now open for our Indigenous Summer Clerkship Program.
• 'Right a wrong' no longer available in print
  Date: 21 Sep 2009
  Right a wrong, a guide to making a complaint in Victoria, will no longer be printed in hard copy.
• New Victoria Legal Aid booklet 'A workers’ guide to fines' is now available
  Date: 21 Sep 2009
  The 2009 edition of On the spot, now rewritten and updated to become A workers’ guide to fines has just been printed.
• New edition of 'Drugs, the law and safer injecting' now ready to order
  Date: 08 Sep 2009
  The 2009 edition of Victoria Legal Aid’s 'Drugs, the law and safer injecting' has just been re-printed.
• Human rights are Aussie Rules
  Date: 07 Sep 2009
  The Eastern Community Legal centre launches a children's project about human rights.
• African report addresses legal barriers
  Date: 07 Sep 2009
  The 'Out of Africa and Into Court' report calls for more help for African migrants.
• Helping youth with the law
  Date: 03 Sep 2009
  A new edition of What's the deal?, our youth legal education resource kit for teachers and community workers, is now available.
• New family violence intervention order publications
  Date: 19 Aug 2009
  Our new plain language intervention order booklets and updated factsheets are now available.
• Legal issues for an ageing population
  Date: 12 Aug 2009
  A seminar on ‘legal issues for an ageing population’ will be held on Friday 21 August at the Arts Centre, Frankston.
• Free tenant and civil claims workshops
  Date: 07 Aug 2009
  The Peninsula Community Legal Centre is running a series of free workshops for tenants and consumers.
• August edition of Briefcase out now
  Date: 31 Jul 2009
  In this issue Briefcase looks at VLA's latest law reform papers, Bushfire Legal Help online resources, and a seminar on legal issues for an ageing population
• New edition 'Securing their future' now available
  Date: 15 Jul 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid’s publication for parents of a child with a decision-making disability been re-printed and is now available.
• VLA supports national Human Rights Act
  Date: 07 Jul 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) has made a submission to the National Human Rights Consultation Committee supporting the implementation of a national Human Rights Act.
• Bushfire legal help handbook now available
  Date: 03 Jul 2009
  A guide to the law for people affected by the February 2009 Victorian bushfires is now available online.
• Debt problems publication now available
  Date: 24 Jun 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid launches new publication to help people in debt.
• Using disability discrimination law booklet updated
  Date: 12 Jun 2009
  The Using disability discrimination law booklet has been updated with a new-look design and some minor amendments.
• New bushfire information sessions announced for Kinglake & Marysville
  Date: 14 May 2009
  Free legal information sessions about insurance financial and credit issues resulting from Victoria's 2009 bushfire will be held in Kinglake and Marysville.
• Free information sessions for bushfire victims in Yarra Glen & Healesville
  Date: 27 Apr 2009
  Free legal information sessions on insurance financial and credit issues for people affected by Victoria's bushfires.
• Bushfire victims with insurance and finance issues can get help
  Date: 15 Apr 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid has set up the Bushfire Legal Help Insurance Unit to help bushfire victims.
• Review of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal – call for submissions
  Date: 03 Apr 2009
  The community is invited to contribute feedback and information to a review of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Submissions close Monday 8 June 2009.
• Visiting academic addresses social inclusion and legal aid
  Date: 03 Apr 2009
  Professor Pascoe Pleasence speaks at Victoria Legal Aid.
• VLA's first Harmony Day
  Date: 26 Mar 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid hosts its first Harmony Day event.
• April edition of Briefcase
  Date: 25 Mar 2009
  Latest news on VLA law reform and services, including the first meeting of the Victorian Legal Assistance Forum.
• Bushfire Legal Help – free information and advice sessions
  Date: 18 Mar 2009
  Information about Bushfire Legal Help insurance roadshow and Bushfire Legal Help information and advice sessions.
• Disability plan ready for action
  Date: 16 Mar 2009
  Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) has developed a disability action plan to strengthen access for people with a disability to all VLA services.
• Gippsland region insurance and financial roadshow announced
  Date: 12 Mar 2009
  A free insurance and financial roadshow session will be held on 16 March for people in the Gippsland region who have been affected by the recent bushfires.
• Bushfire legal help insurance roadshows
  Date: 27 Feb 2009
  Free legal information sessions and insurance information roadshows are being held at bushfire recvery centres around Victoria.
• Legal assistance for bushfire victims
  Date: 12 Feb 2009
  Free legal help is available for people who have been affected by Victoria's bushfires.
• 2009 divorce workshops
  Date: 02 Feb 2009
  Dates for VLA's 2009 divorce workshops are now available.
• December edition of Diversity News
  Date: 04 Dec 2008
  The final edition of Diversity News for 2008 looks at detention laws, seniors’ rights, and reforms to abortion laws, relationship registers, and stalking laws.
• VLA duo appointed to Magistrates' Court
  Date: 02 Dec 2008
  Two former Victoria Legal Aid lawyers were today appointed to the Magistrates' Court of Victoria.
• Co-operative federalism required for legal aid
  Date: 26 Nov 2008
  Victoria Legal Aid managing director, Bevan Warner, urged private practitioners protesting about legal aid work to act responsibly and not place their clients at risk.
• December edition of Briefcase
  Date: 22 Nov 2008
  December 2008 edition of Briefcase, VLA's newsletter for the legal profession.
• September edition of Diversity News
  Date: 18 Sep 2008
  This edition has up-to-date details on new VLA services. It also reports on legal services for residents affected by the Cranbourne
• Legal help for gas leak residents
  Date: 16 Sep 2008
  How Brookland Greens Estate residents can access a range of legal services to help them with legal issues associated with the gas leak from a former municipal rubbish tip in Cranbourne.
• Former managing director now a magistrate
  Date: 11 Sep 2008
  The Brumby Government has appointed Tony Parsons to the Magistrates' Court.
• 2010 New Lawyer Program
  Date: 05 Sep 2008
  Victoria Legal Aid's new program for new lawyers begins in 2010.
• Victoria Legal Aid's first federal magistrate
  Date: 04 Sep 2008
  Evelyn Bender has been appointed a federal magistrate.
• Free outreach service for Kyneton
  Date: 07 Aug 2008
  More legal advice available in Kyneton district
• New edition of Briefcase
  Date: 04 Aug 2008
  August edition of lawyers' newsletter Briefcase
• July edition of Diversity News
  Date: 28 Jul 2008
  The July edition of Diversity News is now available
• Translated publications now available
  Date: 24 Jul 2008
  Translations of Client Service Charter and family law booklet are now available
• New magistrates bring VLA experience
  Date: 21 Jul 2008
  Three VLA lawyers have been promoted to the bench.
• New managing director for Victoria Legal Aid
  Date: 19 Jun 2008
  Bevan Warner is VLA's new managing director.
• New edition of Your rights: police powers in Victoria
  Date: 13 Jun 2008
  New edition of VLA publication Your rights: police powers in Victoria
• June edition of Briefcase newsletter
  Date: 23 May 2008
  Victoria Legal Aid is facing cutting its family law services by as much as $10million per year as it manages the pressures of inequities in the Commonwealth legal aid funding system.
• Legal aid boost for the south west
  Date: 22 May 2008
  Victoria Legal Aid’s newest regional office opens in Warrnambool on Tuesday 27 May 2008, bringing the resources of the state’s major legal aid provider to the south west coast.
• May edition of Diversity News now available
  Date: 30 Apr 2008
  The May edition of Diversity News features a report about the benefits of our new website for particular groups and communities, plus news on publications, services and workshops.
• Victoria Legal Aid backs trial allocation by judiciary
  Date: 03 Apr 2008
  Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) believes a senior judicial officer should allocate indictable criminal trials to either the County or Supreme Courts. The officer’s decision should be based on the nature and seriousness of the particular case.
• VLA to host Human Rights Charter forum
  Date: 05 Feb 2008
  As part of Law Week, Victoria Legal Aid will be hosting a forum at its Lionel Murphy Centre, inspired by the words of Lionel Murphy.
• More fairness and efficiency in Bail Act review
  Date: 20 Dec 2007
  The Victorian Law Reform Commission recently released its Review of the Bail Act Final Report.
• VLA launches new website
  Date: 18 Dec 2007
  Victoria Legal Aid has recently launched a new website that aims to provide Victorians with substantially improved access to legal information.
• Moorabbin Justice Centre opens
  Date: 13 Dec 2007
  The Moorabbin Justice Centre (MJC) is now open and hearing matters in the Magistrates', Children's, Family Violence, VCAT and VOCAT jurisdictions.
• VLA ready to embrace human rights charter
  Date: 04 Dec 2007
  In 2006, Victoria took the historic step of enacting a charter of human rights. Apart from the Australian Capital Territory, no other state or territory in Australia has a charter.
• A record year for VLA
  Date: 04 Dec 2007
  VLA set three new performance records in 2006-07, making its 25th anniversary year an outstanding year.
• New survey to help guide legal aid policy for a decade and beyond
  Date: 04 Dec 2007
  A new national survey of legal need is set to form an integral part of legal aid policy development in Australia for at least a decade.
• ADR needs to be simple, cheap and easy
  Date: 30 Nov 2007
  A discussion paper on alternative dispute resolution examines the current provision of ADR services across Victoria.
• Two fold boost for community legal centres
  Date: 29 Nov 2007
  A $1.45 million funding package will boost the ability of selected CLCs to provide more family violence related services and will also increase the general capacity of several regional and rural CLCs.
• New Victoria Legal Aid publications
  Date: 29 Nov 2007
  A new brochure about appealing Centrelink decisions is part of VLA’s latest free publications.
• 'New law' section
  Date: 29 Nov 2007
  ‘New law’ is a new feature on Victoria Legal Aid’s website that keeps you up to date with the latest changes in the law.

• Contact us  |  Copyright  |  Privacy  |  Disclaimer  |  Sitemap  |  Accessibility statement