Community Legal Centres Queensland
Legal Services
Spring Hill, QLD 1,443 followers
We provide support, leadership and advocacy for community legal centres, working towards a fair and just Queensland.
About us
Community Legal Centres Queensland provides support and advocacy for 34 independent, community-led community legal centres operating across Queensland. Queensland’s community legal centres provide free information, advice and referral, representation and casework, community education and advocacy for vulnerable clients and communities facing legal problems.
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http://www.communitylegalqld.org.au
External link for Community Legal Centres Queensland
- Industry
- Legal Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Spring Hill, QLD
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1993
- Specialties
- human rights, advocacy, learning and development, quality assurance, accreditation, sustainability, collaboration, evaluation, impact, social justice, volunteering, legal services, and not for profit
Locations
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Primary
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Spring Hill, QLD 400, AU
Employees at Community Legal Centres Queensland
Updates
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Join Community Legal Centres Queensland for the final webinar of 2024: Changes to the Family Law Act: Guidance for family law practitioners. In this webinar, Hamish Mulcahy and Chiara Falzon of Hopgood Ganim Lawyers will discuss recent amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), focussing on some of the changes to Part VII of the Act and highlighting major areas of reform, including: • the removal of the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility; • the elimination of the pathway for considering ‘live with’ and ‘spend time with’ provisions • the introduction of refined ‘best interests’ factors; and • the addition of section 65DAAA, which addresses the ‘reconsideration of final parenting orders’ Hamish and Chiara will also offer practical guidance on drafting parenting orders and affidavits within this new framework, and discuss recent decisions relating to section 65DAAA. The webinar is on Wednesday 27 November from 12:00pm to 1:00pm (AEST). A recording of the webinar will be sent to all registrants. CPD Note: Under the Queensland Law Society’s CPD Rules, if this particular educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and the practice of the law, then you should claim one CPD unit for each hour of attendance. Register: https://lnkd.in/gyYZdCrH #webinar #cpdpoints #familylaw #communitylaw
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We’re just weeks away from the state election, and it’s vital that the next Queensland Government provides Queensland’s community legal centres with funding certainty by the end of 2024 under the new Access to Justice Partnership Agreement with the Commonwealth, with this year’s $12.4m “workforce uplift” included in the state’s base funding contribution. Over the past few weeks, we’ve joined sector colleagues to make this case to ministers, MPs and candidates for the election. While they’ve all expressed strong support for our work, it’s critical that we get the certainty and sustainability we need, and that our clients and communities deserve. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gR3ai3AF #savecommunitylegalcentres
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Every day, Community Legal Centres prevent people from becoming homeless, help them mitigate rising costs of living, and deal with complex legal problems. Community Legal Centres make a real difference and need adequate and ongoing funding to continue to serve their communities. That’s why we are calling on the next State Government to help #savecommunitylegalcentres and commit to rolling the $12.4 million funding uplift allocated in the 2024-25 budget into ongoing base funding for community legal centres.
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Every day, community legal centres prevent people from becoming homeless, help mitigate rising costs of living and deal with complex legal problems. We are closely connected to partners in community agencies and court registries and they tell us the demand continues to rise. In the past year, many LawRight services had to close to new clients for months at a time, due to overwhelming demand and delays to recruiting in this challenging environment. That’s why we are calling on the next State Government to help #savecommunitylegalcentres and commit to rolling the $12.4 million funding uplift allocated in the 2024-25 budget into ongoing base funding for community legal centres.
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Community Legal Centres Queensland reposted this
YAC is pleased to invite you to “A Layman's Guide to Youth Justice Laws in Queensland”. This webinar is designed provide a digestible overview of the Youth Justice Act and other relevant laws and will answer your questions about how things pan out in practice. As a start, we will address: - What are “Serious Repeat Offenders”? - What are the sentencing options for serious crimes such as car theft, assault and break and entering? Is parole available? What is a ‘heinous’ crime? - What is the difference between adult and youth sentencing? - When is bail granted, and what conditions can be imposed? What happens when bail is breached? What diversions are available to the courts or police? (such as restorative justice and cautions) - When are convictions recorded? When do adult courts have access to a Children’s Court record? Presented by: Katherine Hayes, CEO, and Damian Bartholomew, Principal Solicitor. Mon 14 October, 4PM - 5PM Click here for more details and to register: https://lnkd.in/guufGb5i
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So many important conversations are being held with sitting MPs and candidates in the lead up to the State Election about the need the community legal centres to be adequately funded. Community Legal Centres Queensland (CLCQ) urges all political parties to commit to real action to support access to justice for all Queenslanders. Read out "Call to Parties" here: https://lnkd.in/gaQP3D37 #savecommunitylegalentres
We’re just weeks away from the state election, and it’s vital that the next Queensland Government provides Queensland’s community legal centres with funding certainty by the end of 2024 under the new Access to Justice Partnership Agreement with the Commonwealth, with this year’s $12.4m “workforce uplift” included in the state’s base funding contribution. Over the past few weeks, we’ve joined sector colleagues to make this case to ministers, MPs and candidates for the election. While they’ve all expressed strong support for our work, it’s critical that we get the certainty and sustainability we need, and that our clients and communities deserve. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gR3ai3AF #savecommunitylegalcentres
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Community Legal Centres Queensland reposted this
This week Queensland introduced new Respect@Work laws to fight workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. Working Women Queensland director Eloise Dalton joined Kat Feeney on ABC Radio this week to discuss the changes, which will address deeply ingrained power imbalances that exist in too many workplaces. Find out more about these new laws: https://lnkd.in/gWBd_BFR
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ATT: Frontline and admin staff at Queensland based community legal centres! Have you signed up for this new initiative being coordinated by Gold Coast Community Legal Centre yet? Meet your colleagues from around the state, network and share experiences and ideas. Meetings will be held monthly, via Team. Drop [email protected] a line to get the meeting invite.
We are excited to launch the start of new initiative with Community Legal Centres Queensland to help support our frontline and administration staff who, day-in an day-out help our communities, with many as the first point of contact. This initiative is an opportunity to bring together frontline and administration staff from across Queenslands CLCs to have the opportunity to meet, network, share experiences in similar roles and learn about each Centre to help unite our valued admin staff with peers across the sector. GCCLC will be facilitating these meetings each month and we encourage our fellow CLC frontline staff to join in. If you need any further information, please contact our office at [email protected]
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Scams are taking a destructive toll in Australia, with many people unable to ever recover the money they have lost. Register now for Community Legal Centres Queensland's upcoming webinar (Thursday 24 October - 11am to 12noon) on Scams and Consumer Rights. In this webinar, Josh Mennen, Principal Lawyer & National Litigation Leader at Maurice Blackburn, will discuss the responsibilities of Banks and other financial institutions to protect customers from being scammed or compensate them where a loss is suffered. Josh will look at instances where the loss is caused by financial abuse by a friend or family member, including withdrawal of super (a problem that was amplified by the COVID early release of super initiative in which of thousands were coerced into withdrawing super). Finally, Josh will explore the way in which AFCA and the Regulators handle these matters. CPD Note: Under the Queensland Law Society’s CPD Rules, if this particular educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and the practice of the law, then you should claim one CPD unit for each hour of attendance. For more information or to register: https://lnkd.in/gB9MW5F9
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