Last week National Legal Aid were proud to launch our 5-year strategic plan: Towards 2030! To commemorate the launch, we hosted an online forum which provided an overview of NLA’s strategic priorities and our plan to implement them.
NLA in partnership with Women's Legal Services Australia, Women's Legal Services Victoria, and First Nations Advocates Against Family Violence celebrate the announcement of Commonwealth funding for new training to help lawyers respond to coercive control in family law.
We welcome the second release of national legal assistance data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as an important step in providing national data and evidence of access to justice in Australia.
A discussion with two recipients of the prestigious Churchill Fellowship who recently completed their research on trauma-informed and child-centered legal services.
New Federal funding under the National Access to Justice Partnership will deliver ongoing funding for 31 frontline legal services that provide advice, representation, and support to victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. This will mean greater certainty around the longevity of these essential services.
A new $21.4 million federal funding package will maintain existing pilot programs to support victim-survivors of sexual violence in the justice system and nationally expand programs to each jurisdiction.
National Legal Aid is proud to launch the results from our first national survey of over 1,000 Legal Aid private lawyers. Private lawyers are vital to the legal assistance sector, delivering over 70% of the over 150,000 legal aid grants every year. However, the supply of private lawyers is reaching crisis levels, with a third planning to do less legal aid work in the next 5 years.
