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Stay up to date with the latest from South-East Monash Legal Service, including updates on our work, community initiatives and law reform.

May 14, 2024

Breaking Barries: Ensuring access to legal services for all communities

SMLS assists thousands of clients each year. Many of our clients come from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Being a new migrant and not…

December 7, 2022

Supporting women on temporary visas experiencing family violence 

The Safe Landing Program supports victims/survivors of family violence on temporary visas to recover and thrive, by assisting them to navigate the legal…

September 21, 2022

Combining sport and the law to engage young people in community legal education

The Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing unveiled the highly anticipated Youth Strategy 2022–2027. The Strategy hopes to mark the start…

August 25, 2022

Standing Up Against Sexual Harassment in Workplaces 

Sexual harassment impacts every workplace in Australia. According to SafeWork Australia, one in three people (33%) said they have experienced sexual harassment…

June 27, 2022

Celebrating Australian refugee communities 

Since the commencement of South-East Monash Legal Service’s operation in 1973, we have worked together with the refugee communities in our catchment…

October 6, 2021

How SMLS utilises technology to provide accessible legal service and clinical legal education

During COVID-19, Springvale Monash Legal Service (SMLS) has continued providing legal services to clients, who due to restrictions cannot attend a community…

January 29, 2021

Homelessness in Victoria

This article was compiled from writings by students from Monash Faculty of Law undertaking a Professional Practice Unit at SMLS. “It is not safe to live…

December 11, 2020

Work Rights Legal Education Resources

Understanding your rights at work SMLS was recently funded by the City of Greater Dandenong to create some resources to help people…

October 9, 2020

COVID Fines

COVID fines data reveals gaps in the data, problems with data collection and concerns with the internal review process. Recently, the Crime…