Legal Assistance and Information: Victoria Legal Aid (VLA)
Victoria Legal Aid helps people with their legal problems, focusing on helping people with low incomes and those experiencing disadvantage.
VLA's Legal Help phone service is a good place to start to find out how to deal with your legal problem. You can speak to someone in English or in your own language.
VLA also has offices in most major metropolitan and regional areas and has lawyers who provide help in many courts, some hospitals, prisons and detention centres.
Contact Details
The Legal HelpdeskPh: 1800 677 402
email: contact@victorialawfoundation.org.au
website: http://www.victorialawfoundation.org.au
Postal Address
Level 5, 43 Hardware LaneMelbourne Victoria 3000
Operating Days & Times
Phone number: 03 9269 0120 or 1800 677 402 (outside the metro area)Website: www.legalaid.vic.gov.au
Eligibility
People with low incomes and those experiencing disadvantageFees
FreeAge Ranges
No specific age rangeOther services Offered by Victoria Law Foundation
- Financial Ombudsman Service
- Ombudsman, service commissioners and government schemes
- Consumer Affairs Victoria
- Disability Services Commissioner
- Office of the Public Advocate
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- Fair Work Ombudsman
- Energy and Water Ombudsman (Victoria)
- Ombudsman Victoria
- Health Services Commissioner
- Legal Services Commissioner
- Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner
- Public Transport Ombudsman
- Office of the Victorian Small Business Commissioner
- Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
- Free or low-cost legal services
- Community Legal Centres
- Private Lawyers and Law Institute of Victoria
- More Information