Student Legal Service Access free legal advice on a range of matters.

Legal advice is provided on a range of matters including tenancy, employment, traffic and criminal offences, civil matters, consumer claims, debts, family issues, business, and many other areas. The Student Legal Service can also certify documents as true copies, and witness statutory declarations and other formal documents.

The service is run by a solicitor who is assisted by two trainee lawyers. All legal advice is provided by the solicitor and all matters are dealt with in strict confidence.

The UTS Student Legal Service will be closed from 2pm on 24 December, 2020, and will reopen (operating remotely) on Monday, 18 January, 2021. From 2 February 2021 our office on Campus will reopen. Please email us for legal help or advice, or to make an appointment. We will respond to you after 18 January 2021.

If, while we are closed, you have an urgent legal problem please contact Redfern Legal Centreon 029698 7277, or visit their web site www.rlc.org.au.

If you have an urgent tenancy matter please contact Redfern Legal Centre’s Tenants Advisory Service on 029698 5975, and if you are an overseas student and have a visa issue please contact Redfern Legal Centre’s international students advice line on 029698 7645.

If you have an employment matter please contact the Fair Work Ombudsman

www.fairwork.gov.au. Please note that any claim for unfair dismissal must be made to the Fair Work Commission within 21 days of the date of dismissal.

Our email is studentlegalservice@uts.edu.au

• Your name;
• Your Student ID;
• The nature of your legal problem – eg tenancy/employment/family law/traffic charge etc, and some brief details of what has happened, and what you are after; and
• 3 different times when you could come and see us, when we are open.

Please note that the Student Legal Service doesn’t provide advice on visa or migration matters, or on any issues that you may have against UTS.