Collection Notice for Equitable Briefing Strategy and pilot list

About this Collection Notice

VLA is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal and health information. This Collection Notice explains how VLA will collect, use and disclose this information obtained as part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy via VLA’s online web form.

We may make changes to this statement from time to time. We will publish those changes on our website. This Collection Notice was last amended on 5 February 2024.

What sort of information we will collect and hold about you

As part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy, we collect personal, sensitive and health information from you if you are a barrister who wishes to either join our Diversity List and/or consent to VLA using your information in de-identified form for research and evaluation. This information may include information about your gender, sexual preferences, cultural identity and disability.

The decision to provide personal, sensitive and health information as part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy is entirely voluntary and is only ever done with your consent. It is not a condition of undertaking VLA work to provide this information and you can provide as little or as much as you feel comfortable providing.

How will we use and disclose this information?

Provided we have your consent, we may use personal, sensitive and health information provided by you as part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy for three purposes.

• For statistical reporting in aggregated/de-identified form, such as the number and dollar value of briefs allocated to barristers who have diverse attributes. Personal information provided as part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy will not be published or disclosed for statistical or research purposes in a way that identifies you or any other
• To share with people making briefing decisions to enable them to identify you as a member of VLA’s diversity pilot list with your express consent.
• To share with the Victorian Bar to enable it to identify you as a member of VLA’s diversity pilot list with your express consent.

Personal and sensitive information disclosed to VLA as part of VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy via our online web form will only be used for the purposes outlined above. We will not disclose the information to anyone else without seeking further consent unless we are required or authorised to do so by law.

We will retain this information for as long as we consider it necessary to support VLA’s Strategy. At any time, you can ask us to provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you or to amend or delete that information by contacting privacy@vla.vic.gov.au

How will your personal information be managed

In relation to the web form used by you to enter your information, google analytics may be able to see how many times the web-page is viewed but cannot access your personal information. Information entered via the web form will be sent to VLA’s secure internal servers which are located in Victoria.

VLA is subject to the Victorian Protective Data Security Framework and it committed to taking all reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. VLA regularly subjects its systems to security testing and system upgrades.

Information will only be accessed by identified roles within VLA who are working directly on the Equitable Briefing Strategy or who have access to the diversity panel for the purpose of briefing legal matters.

Contact us

If you would like any further information about VLA’s Equitable Briefing Strategy please contact our project leads by phone, email or post at:

If you would like any further information about VLA’s privacy policies please contact our Internal Legal Services Team by phone, email or post at: