The Top End Women`s Legal Service (TEWLS) is a municipal legal centre focused on promoting women`s rights. TEWLS plays an important role for women in the high-end. At the individual level, the service responds to women`s experiences and realities and facilitates them on a personal basis, with holistic specialist information, referrals, advice, interventions and community legal education services. At the systemic level, the collective client experience provides an important foundation and platform for informed service promotion and systemic improvement through legislative reform submissions. TEWLS is able to provide legal assistance in civil, family and migration matters. Click below for more information on the different areas of law TEWLS can help you: For more information about TEWLS` community legal education programs and how to contact TEWLS to discuss legal education workshops and/or campaigns, see Community Legal Education. Established in 1996 following the Australian Law Reform Commission`s inquiry into equality before the law, TEWLS is a specialised, not-for-profit women`s legal service that provides free legal services to women in the upper seas of the Northern Territory. Our goal is to advocate for justice for women, promote women`s human rights, and eliminate inequalities experienced by women. TEWLS is funded by the Commonwealth Ministry of Justice, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, with additional contributions from the Northern Territory Government and through pro bono partnerships. We provide high-quality, appropriate and culturally appropriate legal advice, procedures and representation, community legal training and civil and family law advocacy for women living in the Greater Darwin area. TEWLS is able to provide free legal advice to all women or people who identify as women, regardless of their situation.
TEWLS` vision is a community where women enjoy and have the right to legal and social justice. Outreach services are provided in Palmerston, Knuckeys Lagoon, Bagot, Belyuen, Palmerston Indigenous Village, Acacia, the Royal Darwin Hospital for Patients and Staff and Darwin Prison. Limited case processing support is available. TEWLS provides in-house legal services from our Darwin office, as well as in various proximity locations and clinics. TEWLS is able to provide free legal advice and legal information and recommendation services to all women and people who identify as women in the Greater Darwin area. Women who wish to use our services can obtain free legal help in person at the TEWLS office or at our various clinics, as well as by phone. TEWLS provides free legal advice, services and information to women in the Northern Territory. TEWLS provides legal services in most areas of civil and family law, including: If you are located in a state or territory other than the Northern Territory, or require another municipal legal centre, please visit the National Association of Community Legal Centres website for information on a community legal centre, including the Women`s Legal Service.
near you. TEWLS provides free legal advice to high-level women, including legal advice, representation and advocacy. Further information on legal advice and representation by TEWLS can be found under Legal advice and representation. TEWLS is able to provide free legal advice, including legal information and referral services, to all women and self-identified women in the Greater Darwin area. TEWLS also offers case-by-case processing and representation services. TEWLS offers free civil and family law services, including legal information and referrals, counselling, case handling and representation services, community legal education, and women`s advocacy in the Top End. Free and confidential legal advice for women on: TEWLS is strongly committed to legal education in the community – we believe that by building knowledge and information about the legal system, women and the community at large can gain better access to the legal system. TEWLS provides holistic, culturally appropriate legal and related non-legal services.
-family law -family and family violence -housing and tenancy -debts -pension and inheritance law -labour law -sexual assault -compensation for victims of crime; -Other areas of civil law, such as complaints against government agencies and procedures. TEWLS has produced useful fact sheets and publications on various areas of law, including family law. To learn more about how TEWLS can help you, see How We Can Help You. To learn more about where to meet TEWLS, see Clinic Locations. For more information about areas of law where we can help, see Areas of law.