Finding legal assistance when you need it doesn't have to be difficult. We offer free legal information, referrals and limited representation to people and communities in southern Tasmania. We can help you with most legal issues, from Centrelink or consumer rights issues, to employment law, family violence, child support or criminal matters.
Do you have questions about a legal matter? Not sure who to turn to? Come along to a free legal information evening and talk to a lawyer. We offer information and referrals for most legal matters -phone 6223 2500 to make an appointment.
Do you have questions about a legal matter? Not sure who to turn to? Come along to a free legal information evening and talk to a lawyer. We offer information and referrals for most legal matters -phone 6223 2500 to make an appointment.
Services
Hobart Community Legal Service is a community organisation whose aims are to foster community awareness of the law, to make the law more equitable and accessible to the public and to provide free legal information, advice, representation and referral to the general public in southern Tasmania. We're one of over 160 community legal centres in Australia.
The Hobart Community Legal Service (HCLS) is a community organisation that aims to foster community awareness of the law, to make the law more equitable and accessible to the public, and to provide free legal information, advice, and referral to the general public in southern Tasmania. Our purpose is to empower people, especially the socially disadvantaged, to have full access to our system of law and justice, and to community resources.
The Hobart Community Legal Service provides free legal information advice and referrals to people in southern Tasmania. We can help you with almost any legal matter, including issues with Centrelink debts or appeals, consumer rights disputes with your telecommunications provider or insurance company, employment and fair work issues, or family violence, child support or criminal matters.
Understanding and working with Tasmania's planning and development approval system can sometimes feel overwhelming. It can also require money you just don't have. Our Planning Aid Service offers independent, professional planning advice for individuals and groups.
Our qualified volunteer planners can help you understand the planning and development approval system, including giving you information and advice on how to prepare or lodge your own planning application, how to comment on development proposals and applications, or how to prepare for a formal hearing.
Our qualified volunteer planners can help you understand the planning and development approval system, including giving you information and advice on how to prepare or lodge your own planning application, how to comment on development proposals and applications, or how to prepare for a formal hearing.
If you can't see a guide for your legal problem, get in touch with us for help. These guides are intended to give general information about the law in Tasmania. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy at the time of writing, the law is complex and constantly changing. Moreover, legal exactness is not always possible in a publications of this nature.
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Brett Hernan
Sep 13, 2020
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Bridgewater opening hours are 9.30-12.30 Tuesday to Friday. The Bridgewater service, (as with the others), is a volunteer service, and as such an actual solicitor is not present at all times.
You will need to make an appointment to see the solicitor through the receptionist/secretary. These legal practitioners giving away their donated time deserves respectful appreciation by all.
By the same token, to the law society of Tasmania and the courts, how is the law advanced when only persons facing certain prison sentences qualify for state sponsored legal aid? This practice, of leaving people unrepresented
You will need to make an appointment to see the solicitor through the receptionist/secretary. These legal practitioners giving away their donated time deserves respectful appreciation by all.
By the same token, to the law society of Tasmania and the courts, how is the law advanced when only persons facing certain prison sentences qualify for state sponsored legal aid? This practice, of leaving people unrepresented