Legal Information

Aged & Disability Advocacy Australia

• Guardianship Application and Process Overview
• Enduring Power of Attorney intake form and map
• EPOA General Principles and Health Care Principle
• Duties and Responsibilities as an Attorney under an EPOA in Qld
• How to Act Appropriately as an Attorney under an EPOA
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Enduring Power of Attorney factsheets

Queensland Advocacy Inc

• Queensland handbook for practitioners on legal capacity
• Preparing for forensic order review hearings
• Stopping an involuntary treatment order
• I'm a voluntary patient - when can I be involuntarily examined or taken to hospital?
• Substitute decision making within mental health
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• About the Police, the Court and Lawyers – What to do and what not to do

Queensland Health

• Mental Health Act 2016

Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland

• Getting a fair go in the tribunal video

Environmental Defenders Office

• Understanding environmental offsets
• Community rights to object to mines
• Self representation in the Qld Land Court
• Mining and coal seam gas law in Qld
• Coal seam gas- community submissions & appeal rights
• Making submissions on development applications
• Priority Development Areas
• Writing an effective law reform submission
• Community Litigants Handbook
• Appealing & enforcing development approvals & seeking declarations
• Understanding defamation - for community groups & environmental activists

Legal Aid Queensland

• Need help getting an insurance claim paid?

Queensland Legal Assistance Forum

• Are you a tenant affected by the floods?

Queensland Law Society

• Important legal issues for franchisors to consider in times of a natural disaster

Queensland Legal Assistance Forum

• Has your electricity, gas or water supply or your telephone or internet service been affected by the floods?
• Having trouble paying your bills?
• Employment issues
• Property contracts
• Small Business
• Commercial and retail leases
• Consumer protection issues
• My car has been damaged by a flood or cyclone
• Sample letter: Request for hardship variation for a loan regulated by the National Credit Code (PDF)

Legal Aid Queensland

• The Farm & Rural Service

The Refugee and Immigration Legal Service

• Refugee family reunion guide
• Visa cancellation kit
• Asylum seeker processing information

Legal Aid Queensland

• What's the Law? Australian law for new arrivals

Legal Aid Queensland

• Bail by mail
• Have you been charged with an offence?
• Has your licence been disqualified for more than two years?
• Self–represented appeals
• Are you going to lose your driver licence?

Caxton Legal Centre

• Police Powers: Your Rights

Caxton Legal Centre

• Dividing Fences
• Tree disputes
• Peace & Good Behaviour Order Kit

Queensland Association of Independent Legal Services

• The Queensland Neighbourhood Disputes website

Queensland Government

• Neighbourhood Mediation Kit

Department of Justice & Attorney-General

• Victims and witnesses of crime

Suncoast Community Legal Service

• Personal injury self help kit
• Personal injury - web-based interactive version

Legal Aid Queensland

• Have you been in an accident?

Legal Aid Queensland

• Are you in prison & need legal help?

Prisoners’ Legal Service

• The Justice Behind Bars Prisoner Handbook (English)
• The Justice Behind Bars Prisoner Handbook (Vietnamese)
• Breaches of prison discipline
• Complaints and grievances
• Deaths in custody
• Federal prisoners
• Freedom of information
• Going to prison
• International human rights law
• Maximum security orders
• Money trouble
• Personal injury claim
• Searches of prisoners
• Security classification
• Substance testing
• Visitors
• Declarations kit

WWILD

• You Deserve to be Safe': A Simple English booklet about Domestic and Family Violence

Caxton Legal Centre

• Making an application to court for adult child maintenance
• Childbirth expenses - A self-help kit for mothers

The Advocacy & Support Centre

• Separation - a guide for women

Women's Legal Service

• Domestic violence resources
• Living without violence toolkit
• Court forms
• Refocus - Smartphone app

The Advocacy & Support Centre

• Women helping mothers helping children

South West Brisbane CLC

• Child protection kit for parents
• Child protection kit for workers

ATSILS

• Child protection - knowing your rights video

Legal Aid Queensland

• Child protection and the Childrens Court
• Having your say in the Childrens Court for young people in care
• What to expect when you go to the Childrens Court
• What are your rights when in care?
• Deciding whether you should help with supervision
• What happens when your parents go to court?
• What is an Independent Children's Lawyer?
• Having a grandchild in your care
• You and family law – a short guide
• Someone has applied for a domestic violence protection order against me – what are my legal options?
• How do I get a domestic violence protection order?
• How to apply for a domestice violence order
• Need help to sort out a family law problem?
• How will an Independent children’s lawyer help my child?
• How will a separate representative help my child in their child protection matter?
• Is a family report being prepared for your family law matter?
• Do you have questions about a social assessment report?
• Having trouble dividing your property after a separation or divorce?
• Organising child support & care arrangements for your children
• Child support, Family Tax Benefit and your child care levels
• Consent orders, parenting orders and parenting plans
• Life after separation DVD
• When separating videos

Australian Government

• Family Relationships online - brochures and publications

Queensland Courts

• Domestic violence videos

Caxton Legal Centre

• Sharing a home with friends or family
• Financial gifts and loans
• Decision making and power of attorney
• Raising money from the family home
• Talking about financial matters
• Residential aged care and community care arrangements
• Consumer contracts - dodgy deals
• Preventing violence
• 10 tips to protect yourself from elder abuse

National Welfare Rights Network

• Appeals - how to appeal against a Centrelink decision
• Carer Payment and Carer Allowance for people caring for adults
• Carer Payment & Carer Allowance for people caring for children
• Compensation and its effect on Social Security
• Debts - what to do if you have a Social Security debt
• Domestic violence and Centrelink payments
• Early withdrawal of Super
• Leaving work? The next steps
• Member of a couple or single?
• Newly arrived residents and Social Security
• Social Security payments for New Zealand citizens living in Australia
• Youth Allowance - am I independent?

Tenants Queensland Inc

• Renting in Queensland
• Starting a tenancy
• Rent & other charges
• Rental bonds
• Entry & privacy
• Repairs & maintenance
• You want to leave
• Lessor ends the tenancy
• Tenancy databases
• Resolving tenancy disputes
• Share housing - your legal status
• Terminating co-tenancies when not all tenants leave
• When violence affects your tenancy
• Social housing tenants - appeals, reviews & complaints
• Social housing tenants - new directions for IndigenousCommunity Housing Organisations (ICHOs)
• Social housing tenants - repairs and maintenance
• Resolving tenancy disputes - VIDEOS
• Indigenous/Creole - your tenancy
• Indigenous/Creole - general standard of the premises
• Indigenous/Creole - rents (or levies and service charges)
• Indigenous/Creole - privacy
• Indigenous/Creole - maintenance, damages and repairs
• Indigenous/Creole - visitors and guests
• Indigenous/Creole - resolving disputes
• Indigenous/Creole - terminations
• It's your right - entry and privacy (video)
• It's your right - paying rent (video)
• It's your right - coverage and repairs (video)

The Advocacy & Support Centre

• TICA pack

Caxton Legal Centre

• Living in a manufactured home park
• Moving into a manufactured home park
• Leaving a manufactured home park
• Living in a retirement village
• Moving into a retirement village
• Leaving a retirement village

Caxton Legal Centre

• Have you lost your job?
• Letter of Demand

Legal Aid Queensland

• Need legal help with your money and debt problems?
• Need help getting an insurance claim paid?
• Buying a used car from a motor dealer: your rights
• Does someone owe you money? Minor debt of $25,000 or less
• Dealing with door-to-door sales - Do Not Knock campaign

Australian Government

• MoneySmart publications

Australian Government

• Personal insolvency information for debtors

Mackay Regional CLC

• Workplace rights for teens

Caxton Legal Centre

• Schoolies Week – what you need to know about the law

Youth Advocacy Centre

• When can I
• What are rights?
• Court
• Court Orders
• Childrens Court Queensland
• Changes to youth justice system
• Drugs & alcohol
• Driving, drugs and alchohol
• Education - things are not going well
• Education - suspensions
• Education - state school exclusions
• Education - state school enrolment cancelled
• Family
• Moving out
• Being in care - making decisions
• Child protection - offender reporting
• Move on
• Out of control events
• Police - 13 facts you need to know
• If I am charged
• Bail
• Searches
• Parents and police
• Party powers
• Sex
• Sexting and the law
• Treated unfairly
• Victims of Crime

Legal Aid Queensland

• Cyberbullying, sexting and Facebook

YFS Legal

• Sexting
• Domestic violence in same sex relationships
• Domestic violence in intimate relationships
• Age of consent
• Sentencing options
• Parties and the law
• Alcohol, drugs and the law

Can I get legal aid?

• Can I get legal aid?
• Need legal help?
• Need legal help? (Indigenous Queenslanders)
• Free legal help for war veterans

Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House

• Legal Health Check

Caxton Legal Centre

• Missing persons
• Preparing Affidavits for the Magistrate Court

Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House

• Legalpedia Queensland
• Civil litigation - self represented litigants