Planning for the Royal Commission? What are your organisation's legal needs?

PILCHConnect is an independent not-for-profit (NFP) legal service which provides free and low cost legal assistance and training to welfare-based NFPs in Victoria. We are currently investigating the need for national pro bono legal services for small NFPs who are called to engage with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (that is, organisations responding to allegations about their institutional response to child sexual abuse that occurred within the organisation). We note that our scoping project is not concerned with the position of individual victims or offenders, who will be serviced by a separately funded legal advisory service.

As part of this scoping exercise we are asking child-related NFPs to complete this short survey (less than 3 minutes) to assist us in better understanding the number of NFPs that may be engaged by the Royal Commission and the legal needs of these organisations.

All answers are anonymous and will be kept confidential by PILCHConnect.

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* 1. Does your organisation have a budget for legal services, or an existing relationship with a legal service provider?

Yes

Don't know

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* 2. If your organisation were to be the subject of inquiry through the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, would your organisation be interested in accessing a free legal service to assist it to engage with the Royal Commission process?

Yes

Please provide any relevant information

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* 3. If you answered yes to question 2, please identify the legal assistance that you believe your organisation may need to engage with the Royal Commission.

Assistance to understand the various procedures of the Royal Commission, including how the Commission will obtain evidence.

Assistance to respond to a Notice to Produce or Summons issued by the Royal Commission.

Assistance to prepare a witness statement.

Assistance to understand your organisation's obligations and liabilities for the purpose of giving evidence (both oral and written) to the Royal Commission.

Assistance to understand and navigate legal professional privilege issues.

Assistance to understand any potential future liability of your organisation or any of its committee/board members following the Royal Commission.

Legal representation.

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Do you have any further comments on your organisation's legal needs regarding the Royal Commission?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.