Access Justice provides legal services that help victim-survivors of family violence.
We support communities to lead safe and healthy lives, by directly supporting social legal programs for people who experience inequity. We also partner with other organisations to act as legal advocates for equal rights and the prevention of family violence.
Access Justice work across seven Local Government Areas including Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Melton, Moonee Valley and Wyndham.
Access to Justice
Getting the right information about the law and how it applies to you
- getting the right information about the law and how it applies to you;
- understanding when you have a legal problem and knowing what to do about it;
- getting the right help with a legal problem, including from a lawyer;
- being able to deal with your legal problem and being able to understand the outcome; and
- making sure your voice is heard when laws are made.
Restorative Justice
… to involve, to the extent possible, those who have a stake in a specific offence and to collectively identify and address harms, needs and obligations, in order to heal and put things as right as possible.
- deliver better outcomes for victims
- offers a process that is tailored to individual women’s needs, and informed by their own choices
- encouraging perpetrators to acknowledge the impacts of their behaviour and to recognise its effects on the victim.
Family Violence
‘the most urgent law and order emergency occurring in our state and the most unspeakable crime unfolding across our nation’.
- Royal Commission into Family Violence where the Premier also acknowledged that ‘more of the same policies will only mean more of the same tragedies’.