Our Bahaga office offers services: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula regions. Our Rockhampton office offers services: Biloela, Duaringa, Gladstone, Rockhampton LGA, Woorabinda and Yeppoon. Before requesting atsils` assistance to represent more than one legally supported co-respondent, it conducts its own internal procedure (granting of assistance (by LAQ) to more than one co-respondent). A copy of the ATSILS internal authorisation must be attached to the aid application. You can also send us an email to add your service to the search or to notify us of any errors. Our Townsville office offers services: Ayr, Bowen, Cardwell, Charters Towers, Home Hill, Hughenden, Ingham, Palm Island, Proserpine, Richmond, Townsville and Tully. If you require additional confidential help and assistance with your request or issue, please contact the Women`s Infolink Service by email at women@qld.gov.au or by phone at 1800 177 577 (toll-free, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Legal Aid Queensland works with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service to provide legal assistance to eligible Indigenous peoples.
ATSILS may represent the plaintiff or defendant at a family dispute resolution conference at Legal Aid Queensland. The provision of legal assistance to ATSILS to represent clients at conferences on the resolution of family disputes in legal aid provides access to the dispute resolution service. This is not a grant for which legal counsel is available or provided, and there is no fee. Our Mount Isa office offers services: Bedourie, Boulia, Burketown, Camooweal, Cloncurry, Dajarra, Doomadgee, Julia Creek, Mornington Island, Mount Isa LGA, Normanton and Urandangi. Our Brisbane office provides services for the Brisbane government region.WACOL Services Offers: Throughcare Services Address: 15 Wacol Station Road, Wacol QLD 4076 (PO Box 25 INALA QLD 4077) Phone: (07) 3025 3875 Provides legal advice and representation to Indigenous peoples in criminal and legal matters. Provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with legal representation in the criminal justice system. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld) Ltd is a non-profit, community-based Aboriginal organisation that is the leading provider of legal services to Queensland Aboriginal people in the areas of criminal, civil and family law. If an application for legal aid is received by ATSILS on behalf of a client and the lawyer is approved, the granting of the aid will be returned to ATSILS, unless otherwise specified. These regular catch-ups allow us to stay connected to the communities we legally support Our Cairns office provides services: Atherton Tablelands, Aurukun, Bamaga, Cairns, Coen, Cooktown, Hope Vale, Injinoo, Innisfail, Kowanyama, Kuranda, Laura, Lockhart River, Mareeba, Mossman, Mossman Gorge, Napranum, New Mapoon, Old Mapoon, Pormpuraaw, Seisia, Umagico, Weipa, Wujal Wujal and Yarrabah. NORMANTON (also serves Doomadgee, Mornington Island and Burketown) Services offered: Criminal Law (non-criminal cases referred to Mount Isa) Address: P.O. Box 55, Normanton Phone: (07) 4745 1118 Fax: (07) 4745 1104 *If you require mobility or stroller access at this location, please call ahead to make arrangements.
Where we don`t have one, we may be able to meet you in a better place if you give us enough time. Our services include child protection, domestic and family violence, family law, victim assistance, victim compensation, witness assistance law If you or your family need legal assistance or more information, call our friendly team on 1800 887 700. Requests for legal assistance made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services (ATSILS) will be treated in the same way as all other requests. The ATSILS legal aid applicant must comply with Legal Aid Queensland`s Resource, Orientation and Performance Test (if applicable). GOONDIWINDI Services Offers: Criminal Law (non-criminal cases referred to Toowoomba) Address: Unit 11 Waggamba Square, Brooke Street, Goondiwindi 4390 Phone: (07) 4671 0766 Fax: (07) 4671 4594. All of the above is part of a negotiated agreement with the Attorney General`s Office developed under the Australian Aboriginal Legal Services Guidelines. MACKAY services provided: Criminal, Family and Civil Law Address: 33 Sydney Street, Mackay 4740 (P.O. Box 1058) Telephone: (07) 4953 4058 Fax: (07) 4953 4110 * (Assisted access only. Please call ahead to arrange help.) A request for information from atSILS Senior Counsel must be forwarded to the Director of Grants for decision. GLADSTONE Criminal Law (Family and Civil Law via Rockhampton) Address: 70 Auckland Street, Gladstone, Qld 4680 (P.O. Box 171 Gladstone 4680) Phone: 0418 613 147 Fax: (07) 4922 4487 *If you need mobility or stroller access at this location, please call ahead to make arrangements. HERVEY BAY services provided: Criminal, Family and Civil Law Address: Unit 2, 17 Torquay Road, Pialba 4655 (PO Box 755) Phone: (07) 4128 2488 Fax: (07) 4128 3021.
BEENLEIGH Services provided: Criminal, Family and Civil Law Address: Shops 10C and 10D, Post Office Plaza, 20 Main Street, Beenleigh 4207 (PO Box 248) Phone: (07) 3804 5033 Fax: (07) 3804 5202 *If you require mobility or stroller access at this location, please call ahead to make arrangements. Where we don`t have one, we may be able to meet you in a better place if you give us enough time. Address: Level 5, 183 North Quay, Brisbane Queensland 4000 Australia Postal Address: PO Box 13035 George Street, Brisbane Q 4003 Phone: (07) 3025 3888 Fax: (07) 3025 3800 Toll Free: 1800 012 255 (24 hours, 7 days) Email: info@atsils.org.au Recruitment Contact: careers@atsils.org.au When ATSILS requests a withdrawal, you are only granting an appeal against the conviction and/or conviction by the county or supreme courts, The matter should be referred to a grant manager for decision. If a preferred provider requests assistance on behalf of an applicant referred to it by ATSILS, the lawyer`s fees must be paid, unless it has been clearly indicated to the preferred provider and Legal Aid Queensland that ATSILS will pay the firm`s fees. Legal aid may be granted through ATSILS in family law proceedings in which a lawyer is authorised. The criteria for FUNDING ATSILS in family law proceedings can be found in the Grants Policy Manual. IPSWICH Services Offers: Criminal, Family and Civil Law Address: 45 Ellenborough Street, Ipswich 4305 (PO Box 3102 WEST IPSWICH QLD 4305) Phone: (07) 3812 2772 Fax: (07) 3812 0982. Please note that our Strathpine office is discreetly accessible via the rear car park and Railway Avenue (not via the gympie Road storefronts).
The property is 220 metres from Pine Rivers Courthouse. ** Nearest train station: Bray Park ROMA Services provided: Criminal law (other matters referred to Charleville) Address: 4-5 Coachman House, 47 Bowen St Roma (P.O. Box 733) Telephone: (07) 4622 5366 Fax: (07) 4622 5368 The granting of assistance to ATSILS is limited to the usual lawyers` fees and disbursements for each stage of the procedure.