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
Legal Assessments team
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:
- s71 or s72 Family Violence Protection Act representation email FVCourtOrders@vla.vic.gov.au
- s357 Criminal Procedure Act representation email CrimeCourtOrdered@vla.vic.gov.au
- s102NA Family violence and ban on personal cross examination scheme email crossxnscheme@vla.vic.gov.au
- S 68L Family Law Act Independent Children’s Lawyer appointment email ICLOrders@vla.vic.gov.au
- S 524 Children, Youth and Families Act appointment email ChildrensCourtReferrals@vla.vic.gov.au
- for any queries about property settlements email caveats@vla.vic.gov.au
- upload correspondence via ATLAS using the ‘Submit correspondence’ or ‘Respond to requisition’ functions.
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
Grants and Quality Assurance legal, advisory and client contributions
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
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