Hobart Macquarie

Hobart Community Legal Service is a community organisation whose aims are to foster community awareness of the law, to make the law more equitable and accessible to the public and to provide free legal information, advice, representation and referral to the general public in southern Tasmania. We're one of over 160 community legal centres in Australia.

The Hobart Community Legal Service (HCLS) is a community organisation that aims to foster community awareness of the law, to make the law more equitable and accessible to the public, and to provide free legal information, advice, and referral to the general public in southern Tasmania. Our purpose is to empower people, especially the socially disadvantaged, to have full access to our system of law and justice, and to community resources.

The Hobart Community Legal Service provides free legal information advice and referrals to people in southern Tasmania. We can help you with almost any legal matter, including issues with Centrelink debts or appeals, consumer rights disputes with your telecommunications provider or insurance company, employment and fair work issues, or family violence, child support or criminal matters.

Understanding and working with Tasmania's planning and development approval system can sometimes feel overwhelming. It can also require money you just don't have. Our Planning Aid Service offers independent, professional planning advice for individuals and groups.

Our qualified volunteer planners can help you understand the planning and development approval system, including giving you information and advice on how to prepare or lodge your own planning application, how to comment on development proposals and applications, or how to prepare for a formal hearing.

If you can't see a guide for your legal problem, get in touch with us for help. These guides are intended to give general information about the law in Tasmania. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy at the time of writing, the law is complex and constantly changing. Moreover, legal exactness is not always possible in a publications of this nature.