Law Reform

St Kilda Legal Service is committed to undertaking legal policy development and law reform activities and this complements the casework undertaken by the Service.

Legal policy and law reform activities may be pro-active, initiated by the Service, or reactive in response to legislative reviews by government or other law reform bodies. Law reform activities may be short-term in nature, such as responding to a one-off call for submissions, or may be an ongoing long-term campaign that could take years to achieve reform. Therefore the Service, where possible, takes a flexible and responsive approach to its law reform and legal policy activities.

The aim of lobbying for reform in the law and its administration is to improve access to justice and the legal system in striving for the Service's vision of a socially just community and to avoid injustices resulting from enforcement and application of the law.