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Latest news
New summary criminal justice procedures
Date: 22 October 2009
Feedback is invited from anyone affected by pilots currently underway of the new processes in summary procedure.
2008-09 annual report released
Date: 15 October 2009
Victoria Legal Aid's fourteenth statutory annual report was tabled in State Parliament this morning.
Membership on the Family Law, Summary Crime & Children's Court (Family Division) panels to expire
Date: 13 October 2009
Membership to the these section 29A panels expires on 31 October 2009.
'Right a wrong' no longer available in print
Date: 21 September 2009
Right a wrong, a guide to making a complaint in Victoria, will no longer be printed in hard copy.
New Victoria Legal Aid booklet 'A workers’ guide to fines' is now available
Date: 21 September 2009
The 2009 edition of On the spot, now rewritten and updated to become A workers’ guide to fines has just been printed.