General Legal Services
In 2009, CASE was granted funding through the Commonwealth
Comunity Legal Services Program to provide a generalist legal
service to clients from a Culturally and Linguistucally Diverse
(CaLD) background. This funding is administered by Legal Aid
WA for the Commonwealth Attorney General's Department and provides
core operational funds.
This service aims to provide advice and assistance to clients
who speak limited English and who are recent arrivals to Western
Australia. Appointments are available for a wide range of
legal issues including debt, Wills and Enduring Powers of Attorney,
tenancy, contracts, traffic matters, criminal law, criminal
injuries compensation, discrimination and many others. Since
June 2009 demand for this service has grown steadily with a number
of clients returning for advice in relation to new problems.
The main type of problems that have presented are disputes in
relation to private rental accommodation, advice and representation
in relation to the Road Traffic Act, criminal injury compensation
applications, and negotiating settlements in contractual
disputes.
Clients have often been precluded from accessing legal advice
from the private legal sector due to their inabillity to comprehend
and communicate in the English language and also their limited
financial means.
If you would like to make an appointment to see a lawyer or
need to know more, please telephone our office on 9227-7311 during
our business hours.
Fact sheets about various areas of law have also been
published and have been translated into several different
languages. They can be found here: Fact sheets