Need free legal help?
Community legal centres help thousands of people every single day with a whole range of issues – housing, fines, family matters, domestic and family violence, and more.
Call Law Access on 1300 888 529 or use our online directory to find out who to speak to.
Generalist community legal centres
These community legal centres provide free legal help to people within a geographic area, spread across metropolitan, rural, regional and remote NSW.
- Central Coast Community Legal Centre
- Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre
- Hume Riverina Community Legal Service
- Hunter Community Legal Centre
- Illawarra Legal Centre
- Inner City Legal Centre
- Justice Support Centre
- Kingsford Legal Centre
- Macarthur Legal Centre
- Mallee Family Care Community Legal Centre
- Marrickville Legal Centre
- Mid North Coast Community Legal Centre
- North and North West Community Legal Service
- Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre
- Redfern Legal Centre
- South Coast and Country Community Law (formerly Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre)
- University of Newcastle Legal Centre
- Western NSW Community Legal Centre
- Western Sydney Community Legal Centre
Specialist community legal centres
These community legal centres provide free specialist services on specific issues (welfare, tenancy, immigration, or finance), or for specific groups (women, people with a disability, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people).
- Animal Defenders Office (ADO)
- Arts Law Centre of Australia
- Australian Centre for Disability Law
- Binaal Billa Family Violence Prevention Legal Service
- Environmental Defenders Office NSW (EDO)
- Financial Rights Legal Centre
- HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (NSW) (HALC)
- Human Rights Law Centre
- Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC)
- Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS)
- International Social Service Australia
- Justice and Equity Centre (formerly Public Interest Advocacy Centre)
- Justice Connect
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- Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS)
- Seniors Rights Service (SRS)
- Tenants’ Union of NSW
- Thiyama-Li Family Violence Service
- Welfare Rights Centre
- Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre
- Women’s Legal Service NSW
- Youth Law Australia