HIV/AIDS Legal Centre About
The HIV AIDS Legal Centre (HALC) is a not-for-profit, specialist community legal centre, and the only one of its
kind in Australia. HALC provices legal services to people in
NSW with HIV or Hepatitis-related legal matters and aims to tackle the severe stigma and discrimination associated with HIV.
HALC delivers services to people from vulnerable social
and cultural backgrounds, including people from the
LGBTQI community, people suffering from mental illness, sex workers, injecting drug users and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
What kind of work?
HALC provides advice to clients suffering from HIV in a broad range of practice areas.
Type of work done by employees: - Legal advice
- Legal referrals
- Community legal education - Law reform and policy work
Location Sydney
Student Opportunities
HALC offers volunteer placements for law students. Students must commit at least three days per week. Students are involved in: - Direct client contact - Court appearances
- Submission writing
- Drafting of legal documents
- Strategising for client outcomes
- Hands on carriage (with supervision) of matters You can find more information here: https://halc.org.au/volunteering/
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Graduate Opportunities
Volunteer work is also available for graduates who are undertaking their Practical Legal Training (PLT). PLT
students are required to commit to a minimum of four days
per week and undertake similar work to student volunteers.
Fun Fact / Recent Project HIV and the Law
HALC produces a number of guides for clients suffering
HIV to better understand their legal rights. Guides cover a broad range of topics, including:
- Disclosing your HIV status in various states - Immigration for HIV positive people - Women with HIV - Probate
- Travel and HIV
- Custodial sentences for people with HIV