Civil Justice Action Plan

The Department of Communities and Justice’s Civil Justice Action Plan for New South Wales contains a suite of reforms designed to:

help people and small businesses resolve common legal problems
promote early dispute resolution
make it simpler and easier for people to access the courts.

The Plan sets out a number of actions that will help remove the barriers that prevent small businesses and individuals from getting the right information, and help, to resolve common disputes quickly and fairly.

Key actions include

establishing an Access to Justice Innovation Fund, consisting of up to $250,000 in grants each year
improving access to legal information via the LawAccess NSW website
piloting innovative technology in selected court lists
investing in Community Legal Centres.

Together, these actions will help to strengthen the NSW civil justice system and deliver positive outcomes for the community.

You can read more about the key actions by downloading a copy of the department’s Civil Justice Action Plan (PDF, 1.5 MB) and Factsheet (PDF, 244.3 KB).

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Related information

Applications for the Access to Justice Innovation Fund 2020/21 open 1 February 2021.

Last updated:

31 Aug 2023