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What are Community Legal Centres? How can they help me?

Australian community legal centres (CLCs) are independent, non-profit community organisations that provide free legal services to the public. Community legal centres that provide referral, advice and assistance to more than 350,000 people each year. These services are provided free of charge. About 20 centres receive no or very little funding and are staffed entirely by volunteers. All other centres receive funds from a variety of sources including state and federal governments and philanthropic organisations.

For more information about Community Legal Centres accross the country visit the National Association of Community Legal Centres www.naclc.org.au

The Combined Community Legal Centres Group (NSW) Inc (CCLCG) is the peak body for community legal centres in NSW. If you are looking for legal advice Community Legal Centres (CLCs) may be able to help you. CLCs are independent, non-profit community organisations providing free legal advice, information and referrals for individuals and communities across New South Wales.

There are 39 CLCs throughout NSW employing qualified staff including solicitors, social workers and community legal educators. We also have volunteer solicitors, barristers, law students and others working with us to extend our legal services.

Some Centres provide legal advice over the phone and hold interview and advice sessions after business hours. For information on services offered by individual Centres please contact the centre in your area directly. A list of CLCs in your area is available by clicking on the link above.Or you can download the new 2008 CLC Brochure.

JUSTICE - CLCs Celebrating Change and Connecting Communities
NSW Community Legal Centre State Conference
7-9 April 2008, Citigate Sebel Hotel, 28 Albion St, Sydney

The Conference was a great success. Proceedings will be published shortly - check this site or contact Jean Parker at the State Office - 9212 7333

New: Community, Compassion, Justice - CCLCG Annual Report 2006/2007. Download it here, or order hard copies with this fax order form.

 

New: CCLCG 2008-2009 Budget Submission to the NSW Government.

This Budget Submission calls for the NSW Government to increase maintenance funding for community legal centres in NSW from $4,313,015 to $8,018,776 per year, and to provide enhanced funding of $500,000 pear year for the provision of new services relating to employment law, legal services for people with intellectual disabilities, and legal services for refugees. Providing this increased funding would result in an additional 55,000 disadvantaged people receiving legal assistance services from NSW community legal centres every year. It would also allow centres to greatly increase the number of community legal education sessions provided to our client communities and to work on many more legal policy projects.

 

This website is sponsored by the Law & Justice Foundation of NSW.

Last updated 3 March 2008

 

CCLCG Publications:

On the Record:

quarterly e-bulletin of the NSW Community Legal Centres. Subscribe

On the Record was historically a paper journal produced by the NSW Community Legal Centres network. It has been reborn in a new electronic version, a quarterly e-bulletin designed to communicate achievements and developments in Community Legal Centres from around NSW. The above link allows you to subscribe to our list. You are then able at any point to change your subscription details, including removing yourself from the database, and changing which email address receives On the Record

Read back issues of On the Record e- bulletin:

On the Record Issue # 7 - June 2008

On the Record Issue #6 - March 2008

On the Record Issue #5 - September 2007

On the Record Issue #4 - June 2007

On the Record Issue #3 - March 2007

On the Record Issue #2 - October 2006

 

Download CLC information publications...

2008 CLC Information Brochure "What are Community Legal Centres?

CCLCG Annual Report 2006/2007: Download

2007 CLC Information Brochure: "What are Community Legal Centres?"

NSW Community Legal Centres Directory 2006