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Practice resources

We have resources to support lawyers doing legal aid work.

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Civil law resources

Our lawyers have written a selection of civil law resources, including conference papers, articles, guides and checklists. These materials can be used as handy references for other lawyers.

Criminal law resources

Our lawyers have written a selection of criminal law resources, including conference papers, articles, guides and checklists. These materials can be used as handy references for other lawyers.

Family law resources

Our lawyers have written a selection of family law resources, including conference papers, articles, guides and checklists. These materials can be used as handy references for other lawyers.

State children, youth and families law

The state children, youth and families law section aims to provide child protection and youth crime private practitioner panelists with tools to assist with practice in the Children’s Court of Victoria and other aspects of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005. This section includes:

Family Dispute Resolution Service process

We have information for lawyers who are representing their client at our family dispute resolution service.

Fact sheets for lawyers to give to clients

We have fact sheets for lawyers to give to clients who are representing themselves in a family law case, applying for or responding to a personal safety intervention order, or attending the Magistrates' Court of Victoria for a summary crime offence.

Other resources

Our law library

Our Public Law Library is one of the only specialist law libraries open to all members of the public. Our experienced librarians can help you to locate legislation, case law or other legal material from our collection. You can also search our Public Law Library Catalogue.

Community education

You can order our free resources or refer your clients to the I need legal information about... section on this website for information to help them with their legal problem.

Our community legal education and projects also to help build knowledge in the community about legal rights and responsibilities.

LawHub

We seek to support community legal centre staff and panel practitioners by providing access to LawHub – an internal service that provides easy access to legal information, legislation, references, forms and resources for clients about a range of legal matters.

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