Get legal advice
Darwin Community Legal Services
Darwin Community Legal Services (DCLS) offers a range of free legal and support services, including:
- general legal - legal advice on most areas of law
- tenants advice - for anyone who rents in the NT
- seniors rights - advocacy and support for older Territorians
- disability rights - advocacy and support for people with disability
- financial counselling - advocacy and support to people experiencing financial difficulty.
DCLS also holds free after-hours legal advice sessions on a regular basis throughout Darwin, Casuarina, Palmerston and Katherine.
You can talk confidentially with a lawyer who can:
- give you advice about common legal problems
- suggest action
- help you to write a letter or prepare other simple documents.
DCLS can't offer advice for family or criminal law matters.
Free after-hours sessions
Walk-ins are welcome, you do not need to make an appointment.
You can attend these free sessions more than once.
See below for the area relevant to you.
Darwin
Every Tuesday and Thursday
5:30pm to 7:30pm
DCLS Office, Parap
NT-wide phone service available, see number below.
Casuarina
2nd Saturday every Month
10am to 11:45am
Casuarina Library
Palmerston
4th Monday every month
6pm to 7:30pm
Durack Community Centre
Katherine
Last Wednesday of every month
9am to 1pm
Katherine Electorate Office (Jo Hersey)
58 Katherine Terrace
Contact
Level 2
25 Parap Road
Parap NT 0820
GPO Box 3180
Darwin NT 0801
Email: info@dcls.org.au
Freecall: 1800 812 953
www.dcls.org.au
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