Grants

Through the Grants Program, Voiceless has fostered the animal law community and helped fund the creation of Australia’s first animal law resources:

2008

Griffith University was awarded a grant of $6,000 to assist with the publication of ‘Animal Law in Australia and New Zealand’.

To find out more about this project, visit the 2008 grants program page.

2007

The inaugural edition of the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal was published with the assistance of a $15,000 grant.

Victorian-based group Lawyers for Animals received $5,000 to research and write a report about animal testing in the cosmetics industry and the need for mandatory and responsible labeling of cosmetics.

Animals Australia received $3,500 to assist with the creation of the ‘Handbook of Australian Animal Cruelty Law’, the first animal law reference book in Australia.

To find out more about these projects, visit the 2007 grants program page.

2006

Redfern Legal Centre received a $20,000 grant in 2006, and a special grant of $15,000 in 2007, to establish the Pro Bono Animal Law Service (PALS). In 2008, Redfern Legal Centre received a grant from the NSW Public Purpose Fund and PILCH Victoria received funding from Victoria’s Law Foundation to further the work of PALS. In 2009 Redfern Legal Centre transferred its PALS grant to to PILCH NSW, allowing PALS to evolve into PALS@PILCH, a national advocacy service for animals jointly operated by PILCH Victoria and PILCH NSW.

Griffith University and the University of Auckland were awarded $15,000 to hold an animal law workshop and to publish ‘Animal Law in Australasia: A New Dialogue’.

NSW Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee used their grant of $2,500 to hold a conference, ‘The Future of Animal Law in Australia’, to bring together and educate members of the legal fraternity about animal protection issues.

To find out more about any of these projects, visit the 2006 grants program page.

Special legal grants

Voiceless is proud to support the Center for Expansion of Fundamental Rights, an American-based organisation which seeks to expand such fundamental legal rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty to nonhuman animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos, through litigation and education. Voiceless has awarded CEFR a special legal grant of US$5000 per year for three years to assist with Australian-based legal research.

Prizes and awards

Since 2007, Voiceless has sponsored a $500 prize for the best student studying Animal Law at Griffith University, Australia’s most popular animal law course.

In 2007 and 2008, Voiceless also sponsored a $500 prize for the animal law essay competition organized by the NSW Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee. To read the winning essays, visit the Committee’s website.

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