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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci

Community legal services turn clients away amid funding shortfall as family violence spikes

Supreme court building building with the words ‘Law Courts’ on the window
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has not provided further detail on his vision for the legal services sector but said it’s a ‘key matter’ he will work on. Photograph: Peter Rae/AAP

Legal services have turned away dozens of clients amid a funding shortfall affecting the sector.

The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (Vals) had stopped taking new clients more than a fortnight ago, about the same time as the Northern community legal centre (CLC), based in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, stopped seeing certain clients.

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