Hello.
We are the Inner City Legal Centre.
We specialise in providing access to legal information and free advice to those in our community and statewide for LGBTIQ people. Our vision for our community, and the world at large is greater access and the ability to learn more about the legal frameworks
in place to support and strengthen our society.
Our notable projects and services are the Sex Worker Legal Service, Safe Relationships Project (of which we won the Law and Justice Foundation's Justice Award for 2014) and other community outreaches.
As a community legal centre, we not only help those who need help immediately, but we push for law reform on issues that matter most to you.
We're not like most community legal centres - our carpets are purple and our walls are neon orange.
We need your help. We want to ensure the access of legal information and documents to our communities through the use of a connected iPad(s), and to develop and publish legal resources for the community.
Ideas = Action
A few reasons why we are putting our ideas into action:
'As a second-year law student, I've learnt that the process of client interviewing is a crucial stage in deterimining whether or not you will be able to help a client. In those mock comps, I've always found it hard to connect
with people as it's so confronting to just look at them - it's so much like a mexican standoff if you don't know them or what they are capable of as you only have paper. To put this into context, when I found out the Centre was looking into hopping on the
digital bandwagon to make this step easier (not to mention all the other outreach ventures we could undertake), I can definitely see alot more people engaged and open to the legal framework than to engage in a mexican standoff with our lawyers!' - Second
Year Law Student Volunteer, 20.
'Access is everything! Plus, having talked to a few people at Fair Day (Mardi Gras), younger people seem to like it more as sending information would be discreet and accessible - who wants to carry around paper flyers?!' - Volunteer
at Fair Day (Mardi Gras), 21.
'It's an opportunity for us at the Centre to excel at what we love and navigate into the unchartered territories of changing the way in which we deliver our services. We want to be able to deliver our LGBTIQ services in a
creative way that knocks down the barriers of geography and time. An iPad will help us achieve this and so much more on a daily basis.' - ICLC Communications, 26
Problem: Limited access to legal information and documents when attending outreach or off-site advice sessions and lack of legal resources informing our community.
Solution: iPad(s) and the opportunity to develop and publish online resources.
Please share our campaign by clicking share, blogging about our cause, visiting and engaging with us via Facebook and Twitter. We are fighting for and with you to colour our legal world with vibrant shades of community justice.
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Just for laughs...
KIRBY J: We had a Playstation shown to us in Sony and it was very exciting. Why did you not try that?
MR GAGELER: This is more fun.
KIRBY J: It is one of the most exciting things that has happened in my time here.
Betfair Pty Limited & Anor v State of Western Australia [2007] HCATrans 634.
