Townsville Community Legal Service aims to:

• Provide a free and accessible legal service
• Seek legal and social change
• Address inequalities in law and society
• Promote legal education
• Provide crisis counselling and support and/or referral to appropriate agencies
• Create an area in which the social welfare aspects of clients’ lives are recognised
• Encourage community participation in the delivery of the legal services it provides

Townsville Community Legal Service operates on an appointment-only basis.

Can provide initial legal advice on a wide range of matters including:

• Family law, domestic violence and child protection
• Appeals against Centrelink decisions
• Minor civil disputes
• Coronial matters
• Credit and Debt
• Some immigration matters
• Guardianship and estates
• Consumer issues
• neighbourhood disputes
• Minor traffic matters
• Insurance
• Motor vehicle property damage
• Elder abuse, mistreatment or financial exploitation.