Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre
About
Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre is a not for profit organisation providing free legal advice to people in the
Blue Mountains, Oberon, Lithgow, Bathurst and Orange regions.
EECLC auspices the Blue Mountains Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service (BMTAAS), providing advice, advocacy and representation to tenants in the Blue Mountains.
EECLC is the only free legal service in this region, with the nearest Legal Aid offices located in Penrith and Orange.
- Assisting solicitors with legal tasks - Data entry and filing
- Assisting with administrative tasks
- Assisting with preparation for community legal education sessions and other projects as required You can find more information here:
https://www.eeclc.org.au/index.php/contact-us/volunteer
EECLC’s primary function is to improve access to the
justice system. EECLC gives priority assistance to the most vulnerable people in our community.
What kind of work? Areas of practice:
- Family law and domestic violence - Credit and debt - Tenancy
- Age and disability - Discrimination
Type of work done by employees - Legal advice
- Duty Legal Advice at AVP list days
- Task assistance and representation
- Tenancy (EECLC runs the Blue Mountains Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service)
- Community legal education - Law reform and policy work
Location
Katoomba
Student Opportunities
"EECLC offers Advice Line Volunteer positions to law students. Students must commit one day per week for 12 months, and have a comittment to social justice. Advice Line duties include:
- Conducting intake and assisting solicitors in responding to callers seeking legal advice
- Providing information and appropriate referrals
- Responding to face to face requests from the public
Graduate Opportunities
EECLC offers PLT placements for graduates. Graduates must be
able to commit two to three days per week for a minimum of 40 days and have a commitment to social justice. Duties of PLT students include:
- To provide clients with information, advocacy support and assistance with legal forms and documents. - To assist with client intake;
- To assist with preparation of advice to clients, including online legal research.
- To assist with ongoing case work.
- To assist with project work for example, community legal education and law reform.
- To assist with conflict checks. You can find more information here:
https://www.eeclc.org.au/index.php/contact-us/volunteer
Fun Fact / Recent Project Cicada Project
EECLC is currently working in partnership with Dr Jane Bolitho, University of NSW to develop “The Cicada Project”, a survivororiented restorative justice framework encompassing a suite of projects focussing on sexual violence and assault. EECLC
works in collaboration with local and international partners and receive support, mentoring and guidance from experienced
and accredited restorative practitioners in the development of our programs and services.
The Cicada Project seeks to provide people harmed by
sexual and family violence with safe spaces to talk about
what they need and an opportunity for meaningful justice.
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