SCALES

• There are low or no costs associated with this service.
• Note: some costs such as Freedom of Information fees to be paid by the client

• People living within the Cities of Rockingham or Kwinana
• Community members with limited access to legal services
• Low income and disadvantaged with a focus on Indigenous, CaLD, young people, tenants, people with disabilities, older people and people affected by family and domestic violence

SCALES partners with the Murdoch University School of Law and Criminology to host the Murdoch Student Law Clinic. This enables us to provide a generalist legal service.

Law Clinic students interview clients under the supervision of solicitors and do all the related follow up work on behalf of the client.

A solicitor closely supervises every aspect of the students’ work. No advice is given without approval of a supervising solicitor.

Advice and limited casework are provided through the Law Clinic on:

• Consumer disputes
• Criminal Injuries Compensation
• Criminal matters
• Family Law matters relating to children
• Fines and fines enforcement
• Debt and other civil matters
• Traffic offences and extraordinary drivers licence
• Family law advice and support in children’s matters and divorce
• Human rights including discrimination
• Refugee, and limited migration matters
• Tenancy and Housing
• Legal Aid applications

Other services (separate to the Law Clinic) include:\

• Criminal Injuries Compensation
• Family and Domestic Violence wrap around legal and non-legal (including financial counselling, counselling and client advocacy) services to women experiencing family and domestic violence
• Child protection
• Tenant’s Advice Service for residential private and public
• Weekly Tenant’s Advice and Advocacy and Court Service at the Rockingham Magistrate’s Court
• Regular VRO Respondent’s Information Service at the Rockingham Magistrate’s Court
• Children’s matters & property (in limited circumstances)
• Law and policy reform
• Community development and Community Legal Education
• Advice and information to young people on criminal and civil matters