Community Legal Service

We can provide:

• Free legal information and advice covering most aspects of the law;
• A wide range of materials you can take away to read or have explained to you;
• Help with preparing documents and letters;
• Help to deal with others involved in your issue;
• Assistance with understanding legal concepts and processes;
• Information sessions on a wide variety of topics to groups.
• Legal issues we might be able to help you with include:

• • Family issues such as separation, divorce, family violence, arrangements for children, dividing money, property and debts post-separation;
  • You’ve been hurt; at work, by someone else in your home, in a car, through the fault of someone else, as a victim of crime, as a child while in the care of adults or institutions;
  • Cars and driving, such as driver’s licences, fines, motor vehicle registration, problems with a car you’ve bought or car repairs;
  • Unfair treatment; at work or elsewhere such as unpaid wages, sacked, treated unfairly or differently to others because of something like your race, gender, or a disability;
  • Decision making, where you want someone to make decisions for you or you want to stop or change someone else making decisions for you,
  • Issues related to death and dying such as Wills or someone has died and there are arguments about their funeral, property, belongings, superannuation or debts;
  • Neighbourhood issues such as fences, noise, disruptive behaviour, threats and violence;
  • Problems with something you’ve bought or a poor service you’ve received.