Table of contents
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Table of contents
- 1 – Introduction
- 2 – Types of matters that may be assisted
- 3 – Criminal law guidelines
- 4 – Commonwealth family law and child support guidelines
- 5 – Commonwealth civil law guidelines
- 6 – State family guidelines
- 7 – State civil law guidelines
- 8 – Standard grants assessment process
- 9 – Simplified grants assessment process
- 10 – Referral and practitioner panels
- 11 – Means test
- 12 – Commonwealth merits test
- 13 – State reasonableness test and interests of justice test
- 14 – Special circumstances
- 15 – Applying for a grant of legal assistance
- 16 – Decision to grant or refuse assistance
- 17 – Reconsideration and review of decisions
- 18 – Standard terms and conditions
- 19 – Contributions and overdue payments
- 20 – Abandoning legal assistance
- 21 – Finalising grants of legal assistance
- 22 – Allocation of work to lawyers and law firms
- 23 – Payments to lawyers and service providers
- 24 – Compliance reviews
- 25 – Privacy protection
- 26 – Complaints and feedback
- Topic index
- Invoices, worksheets and forms
- Contact us
Privacy complaints
Anyone may complain if they think VLA has interfered with their privacy or failed to protect properly their personal information. See also: Complaints and feedback.
Contact the Privacy Officer
The person should first contact the Privacy Officer at VLA to try to have VLA directly resolve the complaint.
The Privacy Officer may be contacted by telephone (call (03) 9269 0234 or 1800 677 402 – toll free for country callers) or by email to privacy@vla.vic.gov.au.
Special help is available
If the person has special language requirements or needs help because of a disability, then VLA will offer help.
Further investigation by VLA
If the Privacy Officer cannot resolve the complaint directly, then they will ask the person to put their complaint in writing. VLA will then:
- investigate the complaint to find out if there has been a breach of its statutory obligations
- tell the person about the progress of the investigation
- tell the person about the outcome of the investigation
- if there has been a breach, remedy the breach, including giving an apology to the person or taking other appropriate action and attempting to ensure that a similar breach does not occur in again.
Complaint to the Victorian Privacy Commissioner
If the person who complained is unhappy with the result of VLA’s investigation, then they may complain further to the Victorian Privacy Commissioner.
The Privacy Commissioner may:
- arrange conciliation of the complaint
- determine the complaint if conciliation is not possible.
See the Privacy Victoria website for more details.