Disability Legal Connect

Connecting you to community legal assistance.

Improving access to legal help for people with disability.

How We Help

We work to improve access to community legal assistance for people with disability, we are developing resources that will help disability services organisations find, connect and refer to community legal services.

Community legal assistance in Western Australia includes, community legal centres, Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the Aboriginal Legal Service, Legal Aid WA and private lawyers providing pro bono assistance direct to clients or through Law Access.

Our four commitment pillars are listed below. These are:

The Legal Help Tool
Information on Community Legal Service in WA
Training for community legal services assisting to improve diversity and inclusion and trauma informed practice.
A collection of research, tools and our key findings.

Legal Help Tool

Use our legal help tool to:

Ask a question about a legal issue you need help with, and
Begin a legal process formally once your enquiry has been referred to a WA service provider.

Community Legal Services

Knowing what legal assistance is available to you can be difficult. On Disability Legal Connect you can:

Search for legal assistance services in WA
Use the Google Earth Map to find locations close to you.

Research & Key Findings

Through our primary and secondary research we have developed a library of key findings as well as useful resources including websites, dashboards and more that may help you in your work with people with disability who have legal needs.

The Disability Legal Referral Tool.

The Disability Legal Referral Tool is designed to help disability services providers who are working with a person with disability who needs legal assistance, to find and make referrals to community legal services throughout Western Australia.

The tool aims to:

Assist the client and service provider to identify potential legal needs based on the clients’ circumstances.
Based on the assumed legal needs, present the client with options of different legal services.
Reduce the amounts of times that a client has to tell their story.
With the client’s consent automate the warm referral pathway between disability service provider and community legal service.
Staging what information the community legal services receives and at what stage of the referral to reduce the risk of the client being prejudiced.
Reduce delays and barriers caused by conflicts of interests.
Help you provide a written record of the services available and the referrals made, so as your client can refer to the information and you can record your work.

Identify the best services for your client

Assist by initiating the warm referrals

Keep a record of your work for your internal reporting and for your client.

Promoting a diverse Community Legal Sector

We are proud to promote a diverse community legal sector.

Our WA community is fortunate to have a community legal sector the works collaboratively yet independently enough to ensure that people who need legal assistance can receive it without conflicted interests preventing their access to legal assistance.

The community benefits from generalist community legal services as well as specialist centres, ensuring broad reach as well as deep specialisation.