Prevailing community standards: Damages in out-of-court anti-discrimination settlements in NSW 

This project set out to explore the feasibility of identifying trends occurring in out-of-court anti-discrimination law settlements in NSW to better equip lawyers, victim-survivors and courts with a better understanding...
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Reaching for the frontier: Breaking barriers to AI-enabled legal practice in community legal centres 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the most consequential transformation in legal practice since the introduction of personal computing to the workplace. By early 2026, 98% of Australian legal professionals reported...
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From Re Carla to an emerging ‘Australian model’: How NSW should legislate to protect the bodily integrity of children born with variations of sex characteristics 

Violations of the right to bodily integrity of children born with variations of sex characteristics are one of the most important human rights issues in Australia today.  This Position Paper...
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Falling through the gaps: Comparing Australian and United Kingdom responses to coerced debt

Financial abuse is a form of family and domestic violence. It is a sub-category of “economic abuse”, which takes a broader view of the financial resources that could be used...
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Natural disaster-related legal need: Community Legal Centres and disaster preparedness

The final stage of a multi-phase research program has now been released, addressing how the legal assistance sector can better support disaster-affected communities in Australia.
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The complexities of child protection-related legal needs: Findings from the LAW Survey

The complexities of child protection-related legal needs: Findings from the LAW Survey

Families who have involvement with the child protection system are likely to experience a complex range of co-occurring legal and non-legal issues.
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NLAS (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples)

Updated to complete the suite of NLAS indicators based on the 2021 Census, NLAS(Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples) is intended to support the planning of legal assistance services as...
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