Legal Services
Staff cannot provide legal advice but can provide clients with forms and procedural information regarding:
Staff cannot provide legal advice but can provide clients with forms and procedural information regarding:
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A comprehensive resource for young women from right around Australia, you'll find access to every day information like voting, jury duty, bank accounts and credit cards, through to more complex topics like relationships and the law, or employment issues. When you need help or more information, Girls Gotta Know can also point you in the direction of a service or website who can help you with a more specific question.
Women’s Legal Service Tasmania is a free community legal service funded by the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department. We provide advice, information, representation, referral, education and from time to time we lobby for better laws for women. We are part of Women’s Legal Services Australia, a national network of community legal services specialising in women’s legal issues, and we are also a part of the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC).
Jennifer also has a particular interest in appellant support generally and for human rights issues such as 'indefinite detention' and 'wrongful conviction'. Opinions and briefings in this and other criminal areas are offered.
Republic Chambers is the home for the Prisoners Advisory Legal Service, which offers clinics for inmates looking for assistance with parole applications.
In partnership with University of Tasmania Law School and Greg Barns, volunteer students attend both clinics and her chambers in order to provide valuable resources that encourage prisoner's rehabilitation.
Jennifer offers a dispute resolution mediation service, with the view that litigation should become the last resort. She is accredited with the Resolution Institute.