The Law Handbook
Your practical guide to the law in Victoria.
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Introduction
The Law Handbook is Victoria’s trusted, practical guide to the law since 1977. Updated every year by more than 80 voluntary legal experts, our leading guide to the law covers more than 90 common legal topics in Victoria.
This resource includes detailed information about areas of the law that affect people in their everyday lives including tenancy, consumer protection, anti-discrimination, family violence and custody matters, through to environmental law and rights at work. It also provides information on emerging legal issues and changes to the law.
The Law Handbook is a valuable plain English resource for lawyers, teachers, students, community workers, activists and members of the community with a legal problem.
Areas of law
The Law Handbook covers 12 key areas of law that are available for individual purchase. These are:
- Understanding our laws and courts
- Going to court and getting help with legal problems
- Fines, infringements and criminal law
- Relationships, families and young people
- Managing your money
- Houses, communities and the road
- Consumers, contracts, the internet and copyright
- Disability, mental illness and the law
- Health, wills, and legal issues affecting older people
- Accidents, insurance and compensation
- Rights, activism and fair treatment at work
- Privacy law, FOI and complaints against government bodies
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