What is the difference between legal aid and community legal Centres?
What is the difference between legal aid and community legal Centres?
Community legal centres are independent, non-profit organisations that work closely with their local communities to provide a range of services. Legal Aid NSW is a government legal service that helps with family law, criminal legal matters, and civil law matters (such as fines, tenancy and debt).
What are community legal advice Centres?
Community Legal Advice Centres Centres give free, generalized, face-to-face legal advice at an initial appointment and further specialized advice for people eligible for legal aid. Centres are jointly funded by the Legal Services Commission and local councils.
What is a specialist CLC?
A specialist CLC provides legal services in relation to a particular area of law or to a particular group of people with special needs (e.g., the Financial Rights Legal Centre and the Intellectual Disability Rights Service).
How many community legal Centres are in Victoria?
Via the Community Legal Services Program (CLSP), we grant and administer funding to 43 centres, Djirra, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Federation of Community Legal Centres. In 2020–21, we administered approximately $57m to these centres.
How many CLCs are there in NSW?
Legal Aid NSW administers funding on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government and the Public Purpose Fund for the Community Legal Centres Program (CLCP) in NSW. The program funds 32 generalist and specialist CLCs and the sector’s peak body Community Legal Centres NSW (CLCNSW).
What do CLCs do?
Community Legal Centres (CLCs) are independent community organisations providing equitable and accessible legal services. CLCs not only provide legal advice and assistance, but also encourage and enable people to develop skills to be their own advocates.
Why are community legal Centres important?
Community legal centres provide a safety net to prevent people’s legal problems from escalating. Without early legal advice, families can break down and health problems can escalate; people can be unnecessarily evicted and can lose their jobs. There are almost 40 community legal centres in NSW.
