The RLC is housed on the ground floor of the Redfern Town Hall

History

Acknowledgements The RLC acknowledges that we work on Aboriginal land, traditionally the home of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) was established in 1977 - the first community legal centre in NSW, and the second in Australia - by lawyers, law students and academics, social workers and community activists outraged at the injustice created by the lack of affordable legal services for disadvantaged and marginalised people. The Centre opened with one paid staff member, barely any money, and lots of volunteers with expertise, enthusiasm, passion, commitment and a vision.

Mission and Objectives

Redfern Legal Centre promotes social justice by:

•    Being a leader in providing quality legal services to the community
•    Having specialist skills in the areas of domestic violence, credit, debt and &
     consumer law, tenancy, employment, discrimination, and complaints about
     police and other government agencies.
•    Identifying inequalities in the laws, legal system, administration practices
     and society as a whole that affect RLC's clients and disadvantaged people
     generally, and to work for social and legal change to remove these defects
     and inequalities.
•    Promoting and providing community legal education.  

Redfern Legal Centre gratefully acknowledges the assistance of:

•   Legal Aid NSW
•   NSW Department of Human Services
•   Fair Trading NSW
•   NSW Department of Justice and Attorney-General
•   NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office for Women
•   Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department
•   Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
    Affairs
•   City of Sydney
•   The Law and Justice Foundation of NSW
•   Thomson Reuters
•   Freehills
•   Microsoft
•   and all our volunteers and pro bono lawyers