Victoria Legal Aid

Victoria Legal Aid is a statutory authority established under the Legal Aid Act 1978 (Vic), funded by the Commonwealth and State Governments, and the Legal Services Board.

Our statutory objectives are to:

• 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 individ-ual legal services in the community

• ensure the coordination of the provision of legal aid so that it responds to the legal and re-lated 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

  • of sufficient breadth.