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Gippsland Legal Assistance Forum

The Gippsland Legal Assistance Forum works to improve legal services and access to justice in Gippsland.

The Gippsland Legal Assistance Forum (GLAF) provides coordination and triage of legal services in Gippsland, Victoria.

The forum works together to improve access to legal help for priority clients across the whole of Gippsland.

The group is a collaboration of legal assistance services, including two mainstream and two First Nation-led legal organisations.

They are:

The forum also works with a range of support services, health services, government agencies and non-government organisations to get the right legal assistance to clients sooner.

How the forum helps

The forum helps to spot legal issues often missed and make the best referrals through:

  • Specialist services – GLAF lawyers provide help to clients and workers in specialist services such as:
  • Secondary consultations – GLAF lawyers also give general advice to agency workers. This includes information about a client's legal issues, or potential legal issues. This done in a de-identified one-on-one session, or in a group discussion.
  • Legal health checks – this is a one-page questionnaire that can help workers ascertain whether a legal referral is needed for their client.
  • Professional development training for agencies – we offer a range of training to help frontline workers identify legal need and when to make a referral.
  • Community legal education – GLAF member agencies offer a range of training for schools and community groups on topics such as:
    • family violence
    • consent
    • serious driving offences
    • bushfire insurance
    • sexting

If you assist those who need legal assistance and would like to make a referral to GLAF, please email GLAFlegalreferrals@vla.vic.gov.au

More information

For more information visit:

• Gippsland Legal Assistance Forum
• Djirra (formerly the Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service (FVPLS Victoria))
• Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
• Gippsland Community Legal Service.

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