Kingsford Legal Centre
| Headquarters | Ground Floor, Law Building, The University of New South Wales, Kingsford, Sydney, Australia |
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| No. of lawyers | 5 employed plus secondees, volunteers and interns |
| No. of employees | 11 |
| Major practice areas | Clinical Legal Education, Community Legal Centre: Botany Bay LGA, Randwick LGA, employment law and discrimination law |
| Key people | Associate Professor Anna Cody, Director |
| Date founded | 1981 |
| Website | http://www.klc.unsw.edu.au/ |
Kingsford Legal Centre is an Australian not-for-profit legal centre. It is both part of the network of Australian Community Legal Centres and provides clinical legal education as part of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law.
It provides free advice, referrals and ongoing assistance to the residents of the Botany and Randwick local government areas, in areas including: employment law, debts, victims compensation and domestic violence as well as a statewide service for discrimination matters. The Centre takes on cases where there is no other source of assistance or where acting for the client will benefit the community by achieving change in the law or government policy.
Kingsford Legal Centre receives funding from the Community Legal Services Programme of the New South Wales Legal Aid Commission, the Commonwealth of Australia through the Attorney-General's Department (Commonwealth Community Legal Services Program, Clinical Legal Education and Family Law) and the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law.
It has a partnership with Freehills who provide a solicitor on secondment for six months twice a year.
Kingsford Legal Centre has appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in New York and The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations Office at Geneva as an NGO.
In 1982, the Centre was consulted by the Ethnic Communities' Council of New South Wales after the New South Wales Board of Senior School Studies made an error in the marking of the Higher School Certificate Modern Greek examination which had caused a number of students to miss out on their choice of university admissions.
The Centre took up Australia's first legal claim by a member of the stolen generation.
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