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Kimberley Community Legal Services
Free legal, financial counselling and tenancy services to financially disadvantaged people in the Kimberley.
Kimberley Community Legal Services (KCLS) is an independent, not-for-profit community legal service. We provide free legal, financial counselling and tenancy services to financially disadvantaged people in the Kimberley.
KCLS is the largest remotely located civil law service in Australia, and 84 per cent of our clients are Aboriginal.
We operate across Western Australia's Kimberley region from our offices in Kununurra and Broome, servicing urban and remote towns and communities.
Our objectives:
To provide legal advice, information, support and representation to the people of the Kimberley in a readily accessible and culturally appropriate way, with particular regard to people who are unable to access other legal services.
To provide community legal education to inform the Kimberley community of their legal rights, with the aim of enabling people to recognise, understand and solve their own legal and related problems.
To provide community education, training and resources to groups, professionals, workers and individuals, to increase their ability to support people with legal issues.
To initiate and promote research and evaluation of existing laws and legal processes and work towards law reform in areas of relevance to the Kimberley community.
To encourage and facilitate community participation in and control over, the work and management of the Service.
To provide a legal service to women in the Kimberley especially in areas where mainstream legal services are not readily accessible.