Legal Aid WA offers free or low-cost legal services to the community. They can help if you have questions about the law, if you are going to court, or if you need advice on a legal problem.
Legal Aid WA provides a wide range of services including:
• Civil law
• Criminal law
• Family law
• Community legal education
• Criminal law
• Family law
• Community legal education
Family law and children’s matters services include:
• Legal representation by lawyers for children and young people in the Family Court and in the Children’s Court
• Legal representation by lawyers in the Family Court, in child protection proceedings in the Children’s Court, and in defended hearings for family violence restraining orders in the Magistrates’ Court
• Dispute resolution services within family law and child protection proceedings
• Assistance to both carers of children and those who have to pay child support
• Needing legal advice or representation with criminal charges
• Who have been arrested as a suspect by police
• Wanting help with an appeal against conviction or sentence
• Legal representation by lawyers in the Family Court, in child protection proceedings in the Children’s Court, and in defended hearings for family violence restraining orders in the Magistrates’ Court
• Dispute resolution services within family law and child protection proceedings
• Assistance to both carers of children and those who have to pay child support
• Needing legal advice or representation with criminal charges
• Who have been arrested as a suspect by police
• Wanting help with an appeal against conviction or sentence
