We help people with legal problems involving family breakdown, child protection, family violence, criminal matters, social security, mental health, discrimination, guardianship and administration, fines, immigration, tenancy and debt.
Our clients are often people who are socially and economically disadvantaged, people with a disability or mental illness, children, the elderly, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and those who live in remote areas.
For more information about our services areas how we help clients see what we do.
As an independent statutory authority, we are set up to meet the following statutory objectives:
- provide legal aid in the most effective, economic and efficient manner
- manage resources to make legal aid available at a reasonable cost to the community and on an equitable basis throughout the state
- provide to the community improved access to justice and legal remedies
- pursue innovative means of providing legal aid directed at minimising the need for individual legal services in the community
- ensure the coordination of the provision of legal aid so that it responds to the legal and related needs of the community
- ensure the coordination of the provision of legal assistance information so that information responds to the legal and related needs of the community, including by being, accessible, current, high-quality and of sufficient breadth.
We are funded by the Commonwealth and Victorian governments but operate independently of government. Our annual report details our finances, including our income and expenditure. Read our quarterly reports for details from each quarter of the financial year.
Acknowledgement of Country
Our organisation operates from many different sites throughout Victoria. Across these locations, we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country, recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community, and pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
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