FLS joins calls for a Supervised Injecting Service in the CBD
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Since 1972
We work towards a fairer and more just Victorian community, one in which the legal and broader social system supports equality and justice
When the Fitzroy Legal Service opened its doors on 18 December 1972, it became Australia’s first non-Aboriginal community legal centre. Located in the basement of the Fitzroy Town Hall, in what was then one of the poorest suburbs of Melbourne, this new legal service set out to do the unthinkable: provide free legal advice to all comers.
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Fitzroy Legal Service joins in calls from Aboriginal, legal, and human rights organisations for the urgent reform of Victoria’s bail laws.
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Vale Uncle Jack
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Human Rights don’t stop at prison gates. It is time to end routine strip searching of people in prison!
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Peter Lynch – Law Handbook contributor
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Brian Wright – Law Handbook Contributor
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The Victorian Government Must End Its Harmful Obsession with Expanding Victoria’s Prison System
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