Legal Help and Advocacy

Aged Care Rights Service:
www.tars.com.au
Promotes the rights of older residents of supported accomodation in NSW. Advice and assistance is available to people 55 years and over who live in or plan to live in supported accomodation, such as retirement villages, serviced apartments, hostels, nursing homes and boarding houses. Also provides educational workshops, seminars and publications. Phone: (02) 9281 3600 or (02) 9281 3672

Community Legal Centres NSW:
www.nswclc.org.au
Community legal centres (CLCs) are independent organisations who provide legal advice and advocacy for a wide range of individuals and groups in the community, especially people on low incomes or otherwise disadvantaged in their access to justice.

Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW):
www.cclcnsw.org.au
Provides free legal advice about borrowers rights, consumer credit and debt problems. Phone: (02) 9212 4111 or (02) 9212 4711

Disability Discrimination Legal Centre (NSW):
www.ddlcnsw.org.au
Provides free legal advice, representation and assistance for problems involving discrimination against people with disabilities and their associates. Phone: (02) 9313 6000 or (02) 9662 1364

Domestic Violence Advocacy Service:
www.womenslegalnsw.asn.au/domestic-violence-advocacy-service-dvas.htm
Free statewide telephone legal advice for women on issues relating to domestic violence. In Sydney, services include representation by solicitors, community education, training for service providers and research. Phone: (02) 9637 3741 or (02) 9682 3844

Immigration Advice & Rights Centre:
www.iarc.asn.au
Community Legal Centre specialising in immigration law - provides free legal advice & assistance. Phone advice Tuesday & Wednesday 12-2pm Ph: (02) 9281 8355. General Line Ph: 02 9281 1609. Fax: (02) 9281 1638

Law & Justice Foundation:
www.lawfoundation.net.au
A major supporter of this site - tenants.org.au - the L&J Foundation site includes legal information, and links to legal education, community legal centres, legal aid and other legal organisations.

Law Access:
www.lawaccess.nsw.gov.au
Legal Information and referral service for NSW residents.

Law Link:
www.agd.nsw.gov.au
The NSW Attorney General's Department provides a comprehensive site with a useful search facility, NSW Caselaw, which includes Residential Tribunal decisions.

Law Society:
www.lawsociety.com.au/page.asp?partid=66
Legal information, resources, library catalogue and links.

Legal Aid NSW:
www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index.asp
Locate your local Legal Aid office. Legal Aid NSW provides free legal representation for those eligible. Covers most areas of the law including family, criminal and civil (where there are tenancy specialists). Special services are available for children, people with mental health issues, prisoners and veterans.

Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC) -
http://liac.sl.nsw.gov.au
LIAC is a state-wide service providing free access to information about the law through the State Library and NSW public libraries, including Public Library LIACs.

Public Interest Advocacy Centre:
www.piac.asn.au
Legal and policy centre promoting public interest issues, especially access to justice and the legal system, health, discrimination and accountability of government and the private sector. _PIAC represents those under-represented or marginalised by poverty, gender, ethnicity, geographic isolation or some other factor. Phone: (02) 9299 7833

The Australasian Legal Information Institute
www.austlii.edu.au
(AustLII) provides free internet access to Australian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To that end, we have become one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over 20 gigabytes of raw text materials and over 4 million searchable documents.

The Energy & Water Ombudsman NSW(EWON)
http://ewon.com.au
www.ewon.com.au provides an independent way of resolving customer complaints about all electricity and gas suppliers in NSW and some water suppliers. Our service is free, fair and independent. Our aim is to keep essential services within reach of everyone. Contact EWON on freecall 1800 246 545, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm or visit the website to make a complaint online.

Women's Legal Resources Limited
www.womenslegalnsw.asn.au
exists to provide a voice for women in NSW and to promote access to justice, through the provision of legal services, law reform and community legal education, particularly for women who are disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances. WLRC will, from a feminist perspective, foster legal and social change to redress the inequalities that women experience