Victoria Legal Aid

Grants enquiries

Contact details for enquiries about grants of legal assistance.

Our Grants and Quality Assurance (GQA) team is responsible for administering grants of legal assistance and managing our practitioner panels. The Grants and Quality Assurance unit is organised into five teams:

  • Operations
  • Panels and Practitioner Engagement
  • Legal Assessments
  • Quality Assurance
  • GQA legal, advisory and client contributions.

Operations

Contact this team to:

  • make general enquiries
  • enquire about external funding relationships and government reporting
  • discuss guideline and fee changes.

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

Email – grants@vla.vic.gov.au

Panels and Practitioner Engagement team

Contact this team to:

  • discuss membership to our practitioner panels (practitioners only)
  • discuss training in relation to our funding guidelines and tests (practitioners only).

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

For all queries relating to our Private Practitioner Panels, please email Panels@vla.vic.gov.au

For all queries relating to the Private Practitioner Short Service Schemes (PPSSS) (including the duty lawyer and capacity briefing services), please email PPSSS@vla.vic.gov.au

For all queries relating to training for our private practitioners, please email GrantsTraining@vla.vic.gov.au

Contact this team to:

  • enquire about new applications for grants of legal assistance and existing grants
  • discuss court-ordered funding
  • enquire about the Preferred Barristers List for major criminal cases (practitioners only).

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

Email – grants@vla.vic.gov.au

For queries about court-ordered funded matters:

Quality Assurance team

If you have questions about quality audits, or have been chosen for audit, email the Quality Audit team at QualityAudits@vla.vic.gov.au

For any queries about a compliance check or compliance requirements email the Compliance team at Compliance@vla.vic.gov.au

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

This team manages Grants and Quality Assurance advisory and litigation work and Client Contributions section also forms part of this team.

Property settlements

Contact the Client Contributions section about property settlements:

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

Email – caveats@vla.vic.gov.au

Correspondence

Correspondence must be uploaded via ATLAS using the ‘Submit correspondence’ or ‘Respond to requisition’ functions.

For general enquiries, please email grants@vla.vic.gov.au

ATLAS help desk

For any ATLAS technical support, please contact our ATLAS help desk:

Phone – (03) 9269 0600

Email – atlashelpdesk@vla.vic.gov.au

Disclaimer: The material in this print-out relates to the law as it applies in the state of Victoria. It is intended as a general guide only. Readers should not act on the basis of any material in this print-out without getting legal advice about their own particular situations. Victoria Legal Aid disclaims any liability howsoever caused to any person in respect of any action taken in reliance on the contents of the publication.

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Reviewed 02 November 2023

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