NLAF Resources
Aboriginal communities
Guide to Legal Services for Aboriginal People in NSW and the ACT |
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Evaluation of the Guide to Legal Services for Aboriginal People in NSW and the ACT |
Newly arrived and CALD communities
Refugee Advice and Casework Service Factsheets |
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Find Legal Answers in Community Languages - State Library of NSW |
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Legal resources for newly arrived migrants and refugeesOnline catalogue of plain language legal resources targeted at newly arrived migrants and refugees. |
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Quick Guide to Working with Interpreters in Legal Settings |
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Checklist for working with CALD communities |
Disasters and emergencies
Catalogue of plain language law resources for victims of natural disasters and emergencies |
Employment Law Services
Employment Law Services in AustraliaThe working group has mapped the provision of specialist free legal services across Australia. This table sets out information about the organisations providing specialist public legal assistance across states and territories in Australia. |
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Diagram of unmet need for employment law services in NSW |
Domestic Violence
ADVO Pocket Guide - Defendants |
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AVOW APPAVOW is a world first mobile app for DV perpetrators. The app is available anytime, anywhere for free. It can be downloaded from the i-tunes store (iOS) or Google play store (android).
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It Stops Here: Standing Together to End Domestic and Family Violence, the NSW Government’s Domestic and Family Violence Framework for ReformLaunched by the then Minister for Women Pru Goward in February 2014, the NSW Government’s Domestic and Family Violence Framework for Reform, It Stops Here, delivers strategies that put the victim at the centre of the system so they can get the services and support they need. |
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A Practitioner’s Guide to Domestic Violence Law in NSW 2018Published in 2018, this plain-English guide to domestic violence law in was produced by the solicitors at Women’s Legal Service NSW. This resource is available online, as an eBook in multiple formats and in hard copy. for more information go to https://www.wlsnsw.org.au/ |
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Good Practice Guidelines for the Domestic and Family Violence Sector in NSWDomestic Violence NSW is the peak, statewide representative body for a diverse range of specialist domestic and family violence services in New South Wales. The key purpose of the DFV Practice Guidelines developed by Domestic Violence NSW is to provide a framework to support the delivery of high quality, consistent responses to victim-survivors across the DFV sector in NSW. For more information go to https://www.dvnsw.org.au/ |
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Quantifying the legal and broader life impacts of domestic and family violencePublished by the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW in 2019, this Justice Issues paper provides the first quantitative assessment based on representative Australian population data of the legal and related problems that often coincide with DFV. |
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Report on Family Violence ForumOn 10 May 2010, the NLAF DV Working Group together with the Australian and NSW Law Reform Commissions hosted a Family Violence Forum. The Forum gave participants an opportunity to provide input into the Family Violence Inquiry. This document was produced to facilitate the making of submissions to the Inquiry. |
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Questions and proposals in the Family Violence Inquiry Consultation paper relating to RRR issuesThis document was produced to facilitate the making of submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission Family Violence Inquiry.
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