It provides scholarships and grants for legal research, public education on legal matters and/or training. It also awards a Law & Justice Essay Prize for which students of any South Australian tertiary institution may be eligible to enter.

Its objectives are to:

promote or undertake legal research which may be of value in the reform of law;
promote and provide legal education including the education and training of legal practitioners and/or persons employed by them;
promote or undertake community education in law and the legal system, including programmes in schools;
communicate to legal practitioners and others information on the law and matters relating to the law;
publish, subsidise or otherwise assist in the publication of materials relating to, resulting from or connected with carrying out the objectives of the Foundation;
provide legal services to the community or a section of the community; do anything incidental or conducive to the carrying out of the foregoing objects.

The Law Foundation is determined to only award grants to those worthy projects that fit its objectives.

Law Foundation of South Australia Inc