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Respect and Equality in the Legal Sector

A Women's Legal Service Victoria project focusing on addressing work-related gendered violence and sexual harassment against women working in the legal sector.

 
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Project overview

Women's Legal Service Victoria is partnering with several project partners in Victoria's legal sector to foster safe, fair and equitable workplaces.

The project builds on the Starts With Us framework and aims to disrupt cultural and systemic drivers for gendered-violence in justice system workplaces. It supports leaders to authorise and champion cultural change, and will draw from a coalition of stakeholders to drive action.

This project will review the barriers and enablers for using existing reporting tools within the legal sector, and develop tools and resources for creating system level change.

Project deliverables

Women’s Legal Service Victoria will:

  • Take a human-centred and co-design approach to help determine enablers in the workplace, and identify barriers to reporting workplace sexual harassment.
  • Develop resources and training that increases awareness and use of existing anonymous sexual harassment reporting tool(s).
  • Explore opportunities for engagement with the profession across the regulator’s processes, including in continuing professional development (CPD) training for lawyers.

Project lead

women's legal service victoria  

Respect and equality in the legal sector.

Project partners

The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner  

Protecting consumers with effective regulation of lawyers.

Victoria Legal Aid  

Helping Victorians with their legal issues.

Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety Limited  

Building the evidence base to end domestic, family and sexual violence.

Capire Consulting Group  

Giving every person a voice.

Related information

Gendered violence  

How to prevent and manage risks from gendered-violence.

Work-related gendered violence including sexual harassment  

Information for employers about preventing and responding to work-related gendered violence, including work-related sexual harassment.

women's legal service victoria  

Starts With Us framework.