Justice for all: A history of the Victorian Community Legal Centre movement

The materials in the exhibition were collected and are displayed as part of the broader project Justice for All: A History of the Victorian Community Legal Centre Movement , funded through an Australian Research Council Grant. This project’s chief aim is to establish the historical and continuing importance of Community Legal Centres (CLCs) to the legal profession, law reform and social policy, and to set this within the broad er context of ideas, debates and arguments about citizens’ access to justice. 2 History provides an opportunity to pay respect to the legacy of earlier generations of CLC workers and volunteers and to consider how this legacy might be carried forward. Despite this, and despite the insistence of those like CLC pioneer Simon Smith, who argues ‘that every successful organisation or “movement” needs a narrative’, 3 there has been relatively little written about the history of CLCs..