Who are we?
Night Time Legal Advice Service (NTLAS) is a service of Canberra Community Law providing information, referral or one-off legal advice in most areas of law. NTLAS runs each Tuesday evening from 6pm to 8pm (except December and January) each year.
Some examples of problems NTLAS can help you with are:
- Fines and other traffic infringements
- Minor criminal law offences
- Family law and basic advice and referrals on parenting plans/orders, separation and assistance
- Employment law - employees not employers
- Debts - people being pursued for debts but not people seeking to recover debts
- Complaints
- Consumer issues
NTLAS does not provide advice on areas that are covered by Canberra Community Law’s day time services:
NTLAS and Canberra Community’s Day service do not provide legal advice on the following matters:
- Immigration and refugee matters
- Neighbourhood disputes
- For private tenants please call the Tenants Advice Service on 1300 402 512. For public housing tenants, please call Canberra Community Law on (02) 6218 7900
How can NTLAS help you?
NTLAS aims to provide at least some initial one off advice and guidance on legal matters.
The service is not resourced to provide casework or ongoing assistance. A solicitor is employed to supervise NTLAS, but otherwise the service is provided by a committed group of volunteer solicitors.
Would you like to contact NTLAS?
- NTLAS operates on Tuesday evenings from 6pm to 8pm (from February to November each year)
- You can call us on 6218 7900 on Tuesday nights between 6pm to 7pm. If you need an interpreter please call the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450 and ask them to ring us.
- To contact us via the National Relay Service ring 133 677 (voice calls) or 1300 555 727 (speak and listen).
Helpful Links
Download the Night Time Legal Advice Service Brochure (PDF, 0.5MB)
Download the Night Time Legal Advice Service Brochure in Easy English (PDF, 0.6MB)