Youthlaw

Youthlaw provides free legal advice and casework to young people, and is active in policy development.

Phone:

(03) 9611 2412

Fax:

(03) 9620 3622

Email:

info@youthlaw.asn.au

Website:

www.youthlaw.asn.au

Address:

Frontyard, 19 King Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Fitzroy Legal Service

The service provides legal advice and representation to clients in the Fitzroy catchment area and plays a significant role in the areas of law reform and community legal education. 

Free legal advice is also available at the Richmond Outreach branch.

Phone:

(03) 9419 3744

Fax:

(03) 9416 1124

Email:

enquiries@fitzroy-legal.org.au

Website:

www.fitzroy-legal.org.au/

Address:

124 Johnston Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065

Oz Child Legal Service (Vic)

Provides legal advice and representation to any person wanting advice on legal issues relating to children, for children (up to the age of 24 years).

An outreach service is available.

Phone:

(03) 9794 5428

Fax:

(03) 9792 1460

Email:

http://www.searchingforhelp.com.au/pages/features/Children/ozchild01.htm

Address:

Visy Cares Centre, 39A Clow Street, Dandenong VIC 3175

Peninsula Community Legal Centre (Vic)

Provides general legal advice as well as specialist advice in the areas of family law, child support, consumer and tenancy law.

This Centre also runs a young renters program.

Phone:

(03) 9783 3600

Phone2:

1800 064 784 (free call)

Fax:

(03) 9770 5200

Email:

www.communitylaw.org.au/peninsula

Address:

Chatsworth House, Suite 1-4, 431 Nepean Highway, Frankston VIC 3199

Also has branch offices in Bentleigh, Cranbourne and Frankston. See website for the addresses and contact details for these offices.

Springvale Monash Legal Service Inc

Provides legal advice in relation to all areas of law except for property law. Provides specialist advice in the areas of child support and civil litigation.

Phone:

(03) 9562 3144

Fax:

(03) 9562 4534

Email:

www.smls.com.au

Address:

 5 Osborne Avenue, Springvale VIC 3171

North Melbourne Legal Service

Provides free legal advice and assistance to those living, working or studying in North Melbourne, West Melbourne, Parkville, and the Melbourne CBD.  Work includes: family and criminal casework, immigration, debt, social security, traffic, motor vehicle accidents and wills.

Phone:

(03) 9328 1885

Fax:

(03) 9326 5912

Email:

North_Melbourne@clc.net.au

Website:

www.communitylaw.org.au/northmelbourne

Address:

1st Floor, 504 Victoria Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051

National Children's and Youth Law Centre

A free, independent community legal centre for children and young people and their advocates. Provides legal information advice principally by email.

Undertakes policy and law reform on children’s and youth legal issues at a national level.

Phone:

(02) 9385 9588

Fax:

(02) 9385 9589

Email:

ncylc@unsw.edu.au

Website:

www.ncylc.org.au + www.lawstuff.org.au

Address:

1^st Floor, Centre’s Precinct, Law Building, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052 (access via gate 2)

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Multi-disciplinary (i.e. legal, health clinic, counselling, food bank, employment service) community resource centre, which specialises in refugee and immigration law.

This Centre assists asylum seekers at all stages of their asylum process including with representation at the Department of Immigration, Refugee Review Tribunal, Federal Magistrates Court and with requests from Ministerial Humanitarian Intervention.

Phone:

(03) 9326 6066

Fax:

(03) 9326 5199

Website:

www.asrc.org.au

Address:

12 Batman Street, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003

Communications Law Centre

Provides free legal assistance in relation to media, communications and internet law.

Phone:

(03) 9600 3841

Fax:

(03) 9670 7902

Website:

www.comslaw.org.au/www.oznetlaw.net

Address:

Level 1, 283 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC 8001

Consumer Action Law Centre

Provides free legal assistance and casework in relation to consumer (including consumer credit) law.

Phone:

(03) 9629 6300 (consumers)

Phone2:

1300 881 020 (free call rural)

Phone3:

(03) 9602 3326 (workers)

Fax:

(03) 9629 6898

Website:

www.consumeraction.org.au

Address:

Level 7, 459 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000

DEAC Legal Services

Provides a range of services for people with a disability who have been discriminated against in employment, education or training.  Through individual legal advocacy they seek to achieve positive outcomes through legal redress by using anti-discrimination legislation.

Phone:

(03) 9655 1117

Fax:

(03) 9655 1145

Website:

www.deac.org.au

Address:

Level 2/189 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc (Victoria)

A state-wide service providing information, referrals and casework advice and assistance to people with disabilities and their carers, associates and friends.

Phone:

(03) 9654 8644

Phone2:

1300 882 872 (free call)

Fax:

(03) 9639 7422

Website:

www.communitylaw.org.au/ddls

Job Watch Inc

Provides a free and confidential telephone information and referral service to Victorian workers and also some case work in the area of employment law.

Phone:

(03) 9662 1933

Phone2:

1800 331 617 (free call)

Fax:

(03) 9663 2024

Website:

www.job-watch.org.au

Address:

Level 5, 21 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Mental Health Legal Centre

Provides advice and representation for people who have a legal matter related to their mental illness. 

This centre provides advice on:

·          mental health law,

·          problems with criminal law,

·          child protection,

·          family law,

·          discrimination,

·          administration and

·          guardianship

as they relate to mental illness.

Phone:

(03) 9629 4422

Phone2:

1800 555 887 (free call)

Fax:

(03) 9614 0488

Website:

www.communitylaw.org.au/mentalhealth/

Address:

Level 9, 10-16 Queen Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre

Provides an immigration legal service, assistance to asylum seekers, advice on citizenship law, casework, telephone advice and tribunal representation.

Phone:

(03) 9483 1140

Fax:

(03) 9483 1136

Email:

www.rilc.org.au

Address:

95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

Family Mediation Centre

Provides family dispute resolution, mediation, conciliation and counselling services.

Phone:

(03) 9556 5333

Fax:

(03) 9555 1765

Website:

www.mediation.com.au

Address:

4/1001 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin, VIC 3189

Welfare Rights Unit (Vic)

Provides advice in relation to social security law.

Phone:

(03) 9416 1111

Phone2:

1800 094 164

Fax:

(03) 9419 3552

Website:

www.welfarerights.org.au

Address:

155 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066

Federation of CLCs (Vic) Inc

Provides a link to all of the community legal centres in Victoria.

Phone:

(03) 9652 1500

Fax:

(03) 9654 5204

Website:

www.communitylaw.org.au

Address:

Suite 11, 1^st Floor, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053

Victoria Legal Aid (VLA)

VLA provides legal information, advice and assistance in relation to criminal issues, family breakdown, family violence, immigration, social security, mental health, debt and traffic offences.

Phone:

(03) 9269 0234

Freecall:

1800 677 402

Phone2:

(03) 9269 0120 (Multilingual Service)

Website:

www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/

Address:

350 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Note that VLA also has offices in Gippsland, Central Highlands, Bendigo, Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Frankston, Geelong, Horsham, Morwell, Preston, Ringwood, Shepparton and Sunshine.

Women's Legal Resource Group (Vic)

Provides free confidential legal advice on all legal issues that affect women.

Phone:

(03) 9642 0343

Freecall:

1800 133 302

Fax:

(03) 9642 0232

TTY:

(03) 9642 0334

Email:

justice@vicnet.net.au

Website:

http://www.inform.webcentral.com.au/t_womlegal.htm

Address:

Level 3, 43 Hardware St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

VALS provides legal aid and assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the areas of criminal law, family law and civil law.  In addition to the Fitzroy head office, VALS has five Client Service Officers, one in each of the following regional areas:

·          Shepparton,

·          Morwell,

·          Mildura,

·          Bairnsdale and

·          Heywood.

Phone:

(03) 9419 3888

Freecall:

1800 064 865

Fax:

(03) 9419 6024

Email:

vals@vals.org.au

Website:

www.vals.org.au

Address:

6 Alexandra Pde, Fitzroy VIC 3065