Handbook

The Housing Clinic (Redfern Legal Centre) is an experiential learning program. In this course students will put their legal skills and knowledge to use and gain practical experience of the law in action. At the same time the will be critically analysing the effect of law and legal policy on disadvantaged clients in a community legal centre setting.Students will be assisting and advising disadvantaged people who have administrative and housing law problems . The work will involve interviewing clients, and advising clients under the supervision of Redfern Legal Centre staff, preparing cases for NCAT and in some cases appearing for clients in the Tribunal in these cases.

Students will spend 1 day (7 hours-9am to 5pm) at Redfern Legal Centre each week for 12 weeks. There will be a half day induction program at the Centre which is compulsory for all students.

Students will also be involved in research and policy work, community legal education work.