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Community legal centres in NSW Specialist Centres Generalist Centres Animal Defenders Office (ADO) • Central Coast Community Legal Centre • Arts Law Centre of Australia • Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre • Australian Centre for Disability Law • Far West Community Legal Centre • Australian Pro Bono Centre • Hume Riverina Community Legal Service • Environmental Defenders Office NSW (EDO) • Hunter Community Legal Centre • Financial Rights Legal Centre • Illawarra Legal Centre • HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (NSW) (HALC) • Inner City Legal Centre • Human Rights Law Centre • Kingsford Legal Centre • Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC) • Macarthur Legal Centre • Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) • Marrickville Legal Centre • Justice Connect • Mid North Coast Community Legal Centre • National Children’s and Youth Law Centre (NCYLC) • North and North West Community Legal Service • Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) • Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre • Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) • Redfern Legal Centre • Seniors Rights Service (SRS) • Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre • Tenants’ Union of NSW • South West Sydney Legal Centre • Thiyama-Li Family Violence Service • University of Newcastle Legal Centre • Welfare Rights Centre • Western NSW Community Legal Centre • Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre • Western Sydney Community Legal Centre • Women’s Legal Service NSW • 2
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History & philosophy 19 – 20 November 2015 Commemorative Booklet Community legal centres in NSW have been around for 40 years. https://www.clcnsw.org.au/history-of-CLCs 5
In 1982, a group of female legal activists founded Australia’s first legal service for women. The Women’s Legal Resources Centre (WLRC) was established to promote access to justice through the provision of legal services, law reform, and community legal education; particularly for women disadvantaged by social and Jackie is a psychologist who provides clinical supervision to MLC stafg. She economic circumstances. In 2016 we became the Women’s Legal Service NSW 6
�� ����� ���� ��� ����� �� ����� ���� ��� ����� History & philosophy Community legal centres developed out of a concern that many people in the community were prevented from accessing legal assistance because of cost or other barriers. 2012 The founders of the community legal centre movement recognized that many legal problems stemmed from, or are exacerbated by social and economic disadvantage or 2007 exclusion and can have enormous impact on may aspects of people’s lives beyond the need to resolve and immediate legal issue. Community legal centres have developed with a philosophy of holistic and accessible provision and the need to be proactive in Women addressing the root causes of the legal For more and the information problems people experience. This is resulted in Law contact: multidisciplinary teams within community Director Combined Community legal centres , which may include community Legal Centres' Election Group. NSW Agenda development workers, social workers, lawyers, Suite 3B, 491 Elizabeth Street researchers and educators. Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Ph: (02) 9318 2355 Fax: (02) 9318 2863 2002 7 Combined Community Legal Centres' Group. NSW
Legal need • Based on income and education, almost 1 million people in NSW require legal assistance each year. • From the 2008 Law Survey: 8
The NSW Legal Assistance Sector Legal Aid Aboriginal Legal Commission Services Community legal - Government centres - Aboriginal community funded and run. organisations in each - Community owned state. - Traditionally and run. criminal, moving - Largely government - Funded by into civil, family, funded governments, grants, etc. donations, etc. - Help Aboriginal & - Can formally Torres Strait Islander - Help those Legal Aid help bottom 7% people can’t or won’t. - Almost 200 individual CLCs across Australia. Also Law Access, Family Violence Prevention Legal Services, WDVCAS, TAAS, etc. 9
Priority Client Groups • people experiencing economic hardship • children and young people • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people • people in custody • people in rural or remote areas • people who are culturally and linguistically diverse • people with a disability and mental illness • people over 65 years • people with low education levels, • single parents • people experiencing, or at risk of, family violence • people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness 10
NSW CLASS data 2017/18 Clients by priority group H'hold with dependent children Homelessness indicator Outer regional and remote Family Violence Disability/Mental Illness Culurally and Linguistically Diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Financial Disadvantage Age 65+ Age 18-24 Age 0-17 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 11
NSW CLASS data 2017/18 Community legal centres services by law type Family Law Civil law Criminal Law 12
NSW CLASS data 2017/18 clients by gender 298 2856 24521 26833 Male Female Neither male or female Unknown 13
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