The Law Handbook
Your practical guide to the law in Victoria.
The 2025/2026 Law Handbook is available now!
You can purchase The Law Handbook in hardcopy or PDF.
For bulk orders or to purcahse individual chapters, please email lhbeditor@fls.org.au
Introduction
The Law Handbook is Victoria’s most 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 over 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 and employment law. 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 alike.
Areas of law
The Law Handbook covers 12 key areas of law that are each available for individual purchase in PDF format. These are:
- Understanding our laws and courts
- Getting help
- 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, unfair treatment and advocacy
- Health, wills, and legal issues affecting older people
- Accidents, insurance and compensation
- Rights, activism and fair treatment at work
- Government and the individual
