Westside Lawyers

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Westside Lawyers (a.k.a. Westside Community Legal Service) [1] is the pre-eminent community legal centre in South Australia.

1 Organisation of the Service
2 Work performed by the service
3 significant litigation
4 Other project

[edit] Organisation of the Service

The Service is run by its board of directors. The chair of Westside Lawyers is Chris Kourakis Q.C. Solicitor General for the State of South Australia.

The service maintains three permanent offices:

1. at Rengency Park

2. at Mile End

3. at Port Pirie

The service also provides outreach services to the Western and inner West suburbs of Adelaide and almost all of the Spencer Gulf. The service is responsible for providing legal assistance to the area it covers. The size of the area includes around 600,000 South Australians or approximately half the population of the State.

The service employs a managing solicitor, (who in recent years has been David Bulloch). The service also employs between 5-7 other permanent solicitors to manage its cases.

[edit] Work performed by the service

The service provides legal representation to eligible members of the South Australian community. The service also provides a general advice service to all people who make an appointment.

[edit] significant litigation

Westside undertakes a considerable amount of litigation for its clients. Westside Lawyers has undertaken significant litigation in South Australia. it has acted in the following matters:

For the Offenders Aid and Rehabilitation Service (OARS) in the special sitting of the Criminal Court of Appeal (Supreme Court of South Australia) in R v Payne.
for the Baxter protestors in 2003 and 2005.
in the most recent aboriginal burial case in the Supreme Court of South Australia; Reid v Love.