Other Legal Services

A list of contacts follows for organisations that may be able to provide legal help.

In NSW, Community Legal Centres can be specialist or generalist.

Generalist CLCs are located across the state and offer legal advice and assistance on a range of legal matters to people living in their catchment area. They may also offer a specialist advice service in a certain area of law due to targeted funding or a decision by the Management Committee to respond to a specific demographic within their local community.

Specialist CLCs concentrate on a particular area of law or target a specific group.

PIAC is a specialist CLC that focuses on public interest issues. That is, issues which affect not just one individual, but a significant number of people, particularly those who are subject to some economic or other disadvantage.

PIAC does not have the capacity to take on all public interest matters. Therefore, if your problem falls outside the scope of PIAC’s work, there may be other specialist or generalist community legal centres or an office of Legal Aid NSW that could provide you with legal assistance.

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