Legal issues
There are many websites in the community that provide useful information on your legal issue.
What is your legal issue?
- Centrelink
- Consumer credit and debt
- Criminal law and Police powers
- Discrimination
- Employment law
- Family law
- Fines, including public transport, driving and parking
- Going to court
- Intellectual property
- Intervention orders and domestic violence
- Neighbourhood disputes
- Personal injury claims
- Privacy
- Renting and tenancy
- Traffic accidents and driving problems
- Victims of crime
- Wills, estates and powers of attorney
- Other useful factsheets and legal information
Centrelink
- Information about what you can do if you disagree with a Centrelink decision.
- The National Welfare Rights Network has more fact sheets about Centrelink decisions and how to seek a review.
Consumer credit and debt
- Scams: Easy English fact sheet
- Credit reports
- How do I get a copy of my credit report?
- Before you sign a contract with either a service provider or for a purchase, familiarise yourself with information on how Australian Consumer Law Standards apply to goods and services.
- Car loans
- Credit cards
- Getting a loan
- Mobile phones
- Keeping yourself out of debt
- Debt problems: the law, your options
- Debt collectors
- Weighing it up: A consumer guide to bankruptcy
- Utilities bills
For more factsheets on this topic go to:
Factsheets include: Credit, Dealing with Debt and Debt Collectors, Energy and Water, Motor Vehicles, Time Share, Buying Goods and Services, Banking, Insurance, Taking Action.
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Criminal law and Police powers
- Cyber-bullying and sexting
- Graffiti laws
- Street Laws and Police powers
- Legal fact sheet: Police powers
- Police powers: Your rights in Victoria
- Your Rights on Arrest
- Powers of bouncers and security guards
For fact sheets in relation to various criminal offences go to:
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Discrimination
- Information on discrimination: Know your rights
- Equal Opportunity Act 2010 – quick guide
- Discrimination and renting
- Racial discrimination
- Gender identity or sexual orientation
- Disability discrimination
For more legal information on this topic go to:
Victoria Legal Aid or Human Rights Commission
Page menuEmployment law
- Employment rights fact sheet
- Bullying at work
- Casual employment
- Employment contracts
- Unfair dismissal
- Unfair dismissal self-representation kit
- Unpaid trial work
- Getting paid and payslips
For more factsheets on this topic go to:
Factsheets include: Casual Employment, Constructive Dismissal, Employee or independent contractor, Employment contracts: Changes to your existing contract, Hazards of Door to Door Selling, Independent Contracting Traps, Notice of Termination, Redundancy and Retrenchment, Superannuation, Unpaid Trial Work, Unfair Dismissal Conciliation Self-Representation Kit, Unlawful Wage Deductions and Warnings, Working Overseas.
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Family law
Page menuFines, including public transport, driving and parking
- Avoid fines on public transport
- Getting a fine when you are over 18
- Getting a fine when you are under 18
- Fines: What are my options?
- Fines: The law, your options
- Parking: the law and you
- Protective Services Officers have the power to issue on-the-spot fines for public transport infringements and behavioural offences, such as travelling without a ticket, swearing or drinking in public.
Page menuGoing to Court
- Your day in court: A guide for people who are representing themselves in the Magistrates' Court
- Going to Court? We can help - Court Network
- Going to court for a traffic offence
- Going to court for a criminal charge
- Duty lawyers at court
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Intellectual property
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Intervention orders and domestic violence
- Family violence intervention orders
- Personal safety intervention orders
- What can happen at an intervention order hearing
- Family violence and the law
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For more information on this topic go to:
Page menuPersonal injury claims
Page menuPrivacy
- Private Lives: Your guide to privacy law in Australia
- Privacy Victoria
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Page menuRenting and tenancy
For more factsheets on this topic go to:
Factsheets include: Avoiding Eviction for Rent Arrears, Applying for a Private Rental Property, Assignment and Subletting, Bonds, Breaking a Lease, Complaints About Landlords and Real Estate Agents, Defending a Compensation Claim, Ending a Tenancy, Eviction, Notices to vacate, Pets, Rent Increases, Shared Households, Starting a Tenancy, The Landlord is Selling, The Tribunal, Utility Charges, When you get a Breach of Duty Notice, When You Want to Leave.
Page menuTraffic accidents and driving problems
- Self-help guide to motor vehicle accident claims
- Making a claim on your car insurance
- I’ve had a car accident and I’m uninsured
- Motor vehicle accidents – general information
- Hoon driving laws
- Traffic offences
- Demerit points
- Going to court for a traffic offence
- Parking laws
- Driving Offences
Page menuVictims of crime
- Help! I’m a Victim of Crime
- Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal legal information
- Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal
- A Victim's Guide to Support Services and the Criminal Justice System
- Sexual assault: the law, your rights as a victim
- Victoria Legal Aid: Victims of Crime
Page menuWills, estates and powers of attorney
- About Wills. Who can make a will? Who can draw up a will?
- Deceased estates
- Powers of attorney - Office of the Public Advocate
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For other useful factsheets and legal information go to:
- The Law Handbook, a practical online guide to law in Victoria includes 35 factsheets which provide an introduction to different areas of the law and are intended to be a general legal resource.
- Victoria Legal Aid also has a comprehensive online legal information service for a whole range of legal problems
- LawStuff has legal information for children and young people in Australia
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