Access to Justice Innovation Fund

The Access to Justice Innovation Fund provides grants to support innovative projects designed to improve the way legal problems are solved. The Fund is part of our Civil Justice Action Plan, which aims to help remove the barriers that prevent common disputes from being resolved quickly and fairly.

Applicants need to demonstrate how your low cost, high impact project can reduce barriers to the justice system, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged communities.

Priority will be given to proposals addressing access to justice concerns for:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Regional and remote communities
• Communities experiencing disadvantage.

Projects could include those that aim to:

• explore new approaches to the delivery of legal assistance services and the resolution of legal problems
• help people to navigate and access the justice system
• promote collaborative approaches to reducing barriers to justice
• demonstrate how technology can improve access to, and user experience of, the justice system.