Redfern Legal Centre · Sydney, Australia
Sydney based
12 month-contract, full time or part time
Supervision: Police Accountability Senior Solicitor, or Assistant Principal Solicitor
Redfern Legal Centre is a non-profit community legal centre that promotes social justice and creates change. We provide free legal advice, legal services and education to people experiencing disadvantage in New South Wales. We drive innovation and change through policy and law reform work to address inequalities in the legal system, policies and social practices that cause disadvantage.
We provide effective and integrated free legal services that are client focussed, collaborative, non-discriminatory and responsive to changing community needs - to our local community as well as state-wide. Our specialist legal services focus on tenancy, credit, debt and consumer law, financial abuse, employment law, international students, First Nations justice, police accountability. We also provide outreach services including through our health justice partnership.
This advertisement is for either a Senior Solicitor and Practice Lead, Police Accountability, or Solicitor, Police Accountability.
Redfern Legal Centre’s Police Accountability practice is a high impact, strategic practice that creates positive change for people and the community. The statewide practice provides advice on police complaints and responds to systemic issues that arise from our casework through test cases, advocacy and law reform.
The Solicitor provides advice and representation on police powers, police complaints, civil tort claims against police and challenging fines. The solicitor also undertakes advice and legal assistance work in the Generalist practice, in areas including discrimination, victims compensation, AVOs, Stolen Generations Reparations, National Redress Scheme, guardianship and government complaints. The solicitor will contribute to our community legal education program and law reform activities and may supervise and assist the UNSW Police Powers Clinic. This role involves working with local and statewide organisations to identify systemic issues and develop policy, law reform and advocacy strategies to address these issues.
The Senior Solicitor, Practice Lead – Police Accountability and Generalist Practice, manages the policing and generalist practices, including supervision of junior solicitors, and provides advice, casework, education and law reform activities in policing to local residents and people experiencing disadvantage across NSW. The role liaises with UNSW and assists with the UNSW police powers clinic. The role involves significant stakeholder relationships and driving innovative advocacy and policy strategies and litigation to achieve change.
Conduct, review and supervise advice and casework in policing and generalist law, including the preparation of complaints and appearances in minor criminal matters.
Supervise solicitor volunteers who provide advice to clients, including liaising with pro bono firms, providing induction and training and signing off on legal advices.
Prepare publications such as fact sheets and website material to assist clients to understand their rights.
Conduct training on police powers for community workers, support workers and client/target group(s).
Identify and drive systemic policy and law reform work to achieve change in relation to police accountability.
Develop and implement strategies to support law reform and advocacy.
Work with local and statewide organisations to identify systemic issues and develop policy, law reform and advocacy strategies to address these issues.
Collaborate with other legal professionals and stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of services.
Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
Manage and supervise junior solicitors and legal assistants.
Represent the organisation in public forums and media.
Participate in professional development activities.
Attend relevant conferences and seminars.
Contribute to the development of legal policy and practice.
Ensure the organisation’s legal services are delivered in a timely and effective manner.
Work with the organisation’s management team to ensure the delivery of services meets the organisation’s objectives.
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