Legal Services

Community Law Centres

The Legal Services Agency contracts with and allocates funding to community law centres (CLCs) to provide a mix of legal services tailored to their community’s needs. There are 26 CLCs nationwide providing a range of:

  • free legal advice
  • representation to people with insufficient means to pay
  • law-related education and information
  • law reform submissions
  • other special services needed by particular communities

National performance standards have been developed to provide clarity about the nature and quality of community legal services. The standards are based on a set of principles that underpin the management of funding to non-government organisations. These are:

  • Lawfulness
  • Accountability
  • Openness
  • Value for Money
  • Fairness
  • Integrity

The principles are largely reflected in the work and values of most community law centres. See the National Standards here (pdf 75kb).

 

Contact details for CLCs are:

Whangarei
Waitakere
YouthLaw
GreyLynn
Auckland Disability
Mangere
Otara
Manukau
Hamilton
Tauranga
Rotorua
Gisborne
Hastings

New Plymouth
Whanganui
Palmerston North
Masterton
Porirua
Hutt City
Wellington
Nelson Bays
Marlborough
Christchurch
Dunedin
Ngai Tahu (Dunedin)
Invercargill

 

One Double Five Whare Roopu

WHANGAREI
Community House
155 Kamo Road Kamo 155 Kamo Road Kamo
Ph 09 437 0185
Fax 09 437 0185
Email: whare@ihug.co.nz
Waitakere Community Law Service

HENDERSON
1A Trading Place
PO Box 121104, Waitakere City
Ph 09 835 2130
Fax 09 835 2133
Email: info@waitakerelaw.org.nz
YouthLaw Tino Rangatiratanga Taitamariki

AUCKLAND
Level 1, 219 Federal St
PO Box 7657, Wellesley St
Ph 09 309 6967
(Collect calls accepted from under 25 year olds from anywhere    in NZ)
Fax 09 307 5243
Email: info@youthlaw.co.nz
Web site: http://www.youthlaw.co.nz
Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Office

GREY LYNN
449 Richmond Rd
PO Box 78-045
Ph 09 378 6085
Fax 09 378 7796

Mangere Community Law Centre

MANGERE
Unit 9/Shop 27, Mangere Town Centre
PO Box 43-201
Ph 09 275 4310
Fax 09 275 4693
Email: mclc@xtra.co.nz
Auckland Disability Law Service

MANGERE
c/- Mangere Community Law Centre
Unit 9/Shop 27, Mangere Town Centre
PO Box 43-201
Ph 09 257 5140
Fax 09 275 4693
Email: info@adl.org.nz
Website: www.aucklanddisabilitylaw.org.nz
Nga Ture Kaitiaki Community Law Centre

MANUKAU
1st Floor
6 Osterley Way
PO Box 76-551
Ph 09 262 2007
Fax 09 262 2005
Email: reception@ntklaw.org.nz
Otara Community Law Centre

OTARA
121 Bairds Rd
PO Box 61-112
Ph 09-274-4966
Fax 09-274-4967
Email: robyn.martin@otaralaw.org.nz
Hamilton District Community Law Centre Trust

HAMILTON
2nd Floor Clayton House
109 Anglesea Street
PO Box 1319
Ph 07 839 0770
Fax 07 839 5158
Email: manager@hamiltonclc.org.nz
Baywide Community Law Service

TAURANGA
63 Willow Street
PO Box 13395
Ph 07 571 6812
Fax 07 571 6813
Email: info@baywidecls.org.nz
Rotorua District Community Law Centre

ROTORUA
1276 Pukuatua Street
PO Box 879
Ph 07 348 8060
Fax 07 348 8061
Email: rdclcadmin@rdclc.co.nz

Tairawhiti Community Law Centre

GISBORNE
11 Derby Street
PO Box 1053
Ph 06 868 3392
Fax 06 868 3394
Email: robyn@tairawhiticlc.co.nz
Hawkes Bay Community Law Centre - Ture Amo Kura O Heretaunga

HASTINGS
204 Karamu Rd
PO Box 789
Ph 06 878 4868
Fax 06 878 4191
Email: hblaw@xtra.co.nz
Taranaki Community Law Centre Trust

NEW PYLMOUTH
65 Devon Street West
PO Box 216
Ph 0800 LAWTRUST (529 878) or
06 759 1492
Fax 06 759 1492
Email: tcls@xtra.co.nz
Community Legal Advice Whanganui

WANGANUI
72a Guyton Street
PO Box 351
Ph 06 348 8288
Fax 06 348 8455
Email: claw@claw.co.nz
Manawatu Community Law Centre

PALMERSTON NORTH
Level 2, 14-18 The Square
PO Box 2088
Ph 06 356 7974 
Fax 06 356 7952
Email: mancomlaw@xtra.co.nz
Wairarapa Community Law Centre

MASTERTON
Departmental Building, 33 Chapel St
PO Box 271
Ph 06 377 4134 
Fax 06 377 4601
Email: wclc@contact.net.nz
Whitireia Community Law Centre

PORIRUA
3rd Floor, Pember House,
16 Hagley St
Ph 04 237 6811
Fax 04 237 6816
Email: commlaw@wnc.quik.co.nz
Hutt Valley Community Law Centre

LOWER HUTT
Level 2
59 Queens Drive
PO Box 31501
Ph 04 568 8964
Fax 04 556 0316
Email: centre@huttlaw.org.nz
Wellington Community Law Centre

WELLINGTON
2nd Floor, 84 Willis St
(behind the old Dominion Building)
PO Box 24-005
Ph 04 499 2928
Fax 04 472 2320
Email: info@wclc.org.nz
Nelson Bays Community Law Service

NELSON
241 Hardy St
PO Box 1110
Ph 03 548 1288
Fax 03 548 8142
Email: admin@nelsoncommunitylaw.org.nz
Community Law Marlborough

BLENHEIM
Level 3, NZI House
1-17 Market St North
PO Box 584
Ph 03 577 9919
Fax 03 577 9910
Email: marlclc@xtra.co.nz
Community Law Canterbury

CHRISTCHURCH
281 Madras St
PO Box 2912
Ph 03 366 6870
Fax 03 366 6631
Email: manager@comlaw-chch.org.nz

Dunedin Community Law Centre

DUNEDIN
52 Filleul St
Ph 03 474 1922
Fax 03 474 9521
Email: reception@dclc.org.nz
Ngai Tahu Maori Law Centre

DUNEDIN
Level 1, 258 Stuart St
PO Box 633
Ph 03 477 0855
Fax 03 474 2766
Email: info@ntmclc.org.nz or joy@ntmclc.org.nz

Southland Community Law Centre

INVERCARGILL
5 Tay Street
PO Box 552
Ph 03 214 3180
Fax 03 214 3170
FREEPHONE (for those calling outisde the Invercargill calling area) 0800 55 080
Email: enq@comlawsth.co.nz

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