General Legal
RLC's General Legal Service
RLC provides a free legal advice and referral service, and ongoing casework services to people who can not afford a private solicitor and can not obtain assistance from the Legal Aid Commission of NSW.
Advice Sessions
Telephone advice sessions - 4 evenings a week
Face-to-face advice sessions - 4 evenings per week
Areas of law which RLC will give advice
- Credit and Debt
- Criminal Law (limited matters)
- Community Organisations
- Complaints against police, solicitors and government organisations
- Consumer complaints
- Consumer Credit Laws
- Discrimination
- Domestic Violence
- Employment (not workers' compensation)
- Family Law (limited matters)
- Insurance (not workers' compensation)
- Legal Aid
- Mental health
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Prison
- Social security matters
- Superannuation
- Tenancy
- Unfair dismissal
- Victims compensation
Areas of Law RLC does not cover
Advice is not given in
- Conveyancing
- Commercial law
- Immigration law
- Workers Compensation
Advice is not given to
- Employers - employment responsibility matters
- Landlords - tenancy related matters
- Head tenants against sub-tenants
- Guarantors seeking a solicitor's certificate about a loan
- Male defendants in domestic violence matters where the complainant lives in our catchment area or whose case is at Downing Centre Local Court
- Neighbours against neighbours
Useful Info Guide
- Unfair Dismissal - www.iclc.org.au/udg
- Fines - www.iclc.org.au/fined_out
RLC has certain criteria that it uses in deciding whether or not the Centre can give you assistance. Click here for a more extensive list of these criteria.