The Consumer Credit Law Centre is a free legal service specifically for people with consumer credit issues and disputes.
The service provides specialist legal advice regarding repossession, mortgage foreclosure, debtors court, and other issues within the areas of credit, banking, and personal finance.
Services include:
- Free specialist legal advice
- Financial counselling
- Legal representation
The Family Advocacy and Support Service (FASS) provides duty lawyer and social support services to people with family law matters who have been affected by family violence. The Legal Services Commission of SA also has duty lawyers at the Family Law Courts able to assist in matters where the person is not affected by family violence.
Services include:
- Duty lawyers providing family law advice, help with adjournments, legal aid applications and referrals.
- Social support workers providing assistance with family law processes, help with safety planning and connection to relevant services.
Community Legal Centres provide free legal advice, assistance and referrals to community members.
At each centre qualified solicitors, advisors and support staff will take the time to explain your legal obligations, your rights and your options.
Services include:
- Family and youth law
- Credit and debt
- Disputes
- Natural disaster
- Abuse
- Social security
- Employment
- Consumer rights
- Disability advocacy
- Minor criminal
- Outreach
- Seminars
ARAS supports older people in South Australia to uphold their aged care and human rights.
ARAS offers a free, confidential, and state-wide service to older people (or their representatives) advocating for access and interacting with community or residential aged care service providers.
Services include:
- Advocating for older people or their representatives who are living in residential aged care or retirement villages, receiving or seeking to receive Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) or Home Care Package (HCP) services or are at risk of, or experiencing abuse from family or friends.
- Delivery of the Home Care Check-In project where it provides in home safety checks for older persons deemed to be vulnerable due to social isolation, and at risk of harm or neglect.
- Have specialist Aboriginal Advocates who provide culturally safe support and host an annual Intergenerational Elders and Youth Gathering in regional South Australia.
The Accessible Justice Project has been set up for Australians who do not qualify for legal aid but cannot afford a private lawyer.
Services include:
- Assisting with disputes you may encounter with other people, companies or government authorities.
- These disputes may involve recovering money owed to you, issues related to your home or property, contested wills and estates, breach of legal agreements, or loss caused to you by someone’s negligence or wrongdoing.
Adelaide Law School provides free legal advice services for members of the public in South Australia.
Services are staffed by final year law students, and supervised by qualified solicitors. The services are confidential, and can assist with legal advice, letters, court documents, and dispute resolution.
Services include:
- Centrelink and government complaints
- Civil claims
- Contract and consumer disputes
- Criminal
- Debt
- Domestic violence
- Employment (not unfair dismissal)
- Expiation notices
- Family law
- Fines
- Intervention Orders
- Motor vehicle accident property damage
- NDIS
- Neighbourhood disputes
- Tenancy
Berrill & Watson is a superannuation and insurance law firm.
They have knowledge, experience and expertise in superannuation and insurance, and help everyday people to understand and get through complex legal issues and to get the best possible outcomes.
Services include:
- Total and Permanent Disability (TDP) Claims
- Income Protection Claims
- Death and Terminal Illness Claims
- Superannuation & Insurance
- Chronic Illness InfoHub
- General Insurance
Adelaide Law School provides free legal advice on areas of equal opportunity law.
Services are staffed by final year law students, and supervised by qualified lawyers. The services are confidential, and can assist with legal advice, letters, court documents, and preparation for hearings.
Services include:
- Legal advice on areas of equal opportunity law.
- Legal advice on discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
- Assistance with drafting legal documents.
- Preparation for conciliation and Tribunal hearings.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is there to support everybody in the workplace with workplace relation matters.
Free and confidential service available via phone and online to assist you with your pay and rules at work.
Services include:
- Provides education, assistance, advice and guidance to employers, employees, outworkers, outworker entities and organisations.
- Promotes and monitors compliance with workplace laws.
- Inquires into and investigates breaches of the Fair Work Act.
- Takes appropriate enforcement action.
- Performs our statutory functions efficiently, effectively, economically and ethically.