New Foreign Nationals Package Inadequate Press Release

A new package to help foreign nationals stuck in New Zealand due to Covid-19 is inadequate and needs to be supplemented with the emergency benefit, say Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) and the Human Rights Commission (HRC). The assistance programme began…

John Chadwick New Year’s Honours Award

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Chatbot to help workers released

MEDIA RELEASE March 4, 2020 Chatbot to help workers released Community Law Centres o Aotearoa in partnership with Citizen AI has this week released a new chatbot for people having problems at work. Workbot provides information about your rights and responsibilities as…

Waikato CLC wins Waikato Community Partnership Award

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Parliament Petitioned to Take Australian Human Rights Abuses to UN

PRESS RELEASE The New Zealand Parliament will be petitioned to take a strong position on Australia’s severe immigration detention, deportation and citizenship impediments for New Zealanders when Australia appears before the United Nations in 2020. Community Law and the Human Rights Commission…

Kathryn Beck, CLCA Board Member, is elected New Zealand Law Society President

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Help shape our justice future, New Zealand

New Zealanders can have an impact on the direction of criminal justice reform using a new digital engagement platform from the Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata – Safe and Effective Justice initiative. The platform builds on engagement undertaken by Te Uepū Hāpai i…

NZ’s first admission to the bar entirely in te reo Māori

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Community Law Ready For Disability Action Plan

MEDIA RELEASE November 14, 2019 Implementation Today’s announcement of the Government’s plan to improve justice services for people with disability related legal issues in the new Disability Action Plan 2019-2023 is being welcomed by Community Law Centres o Aotearoa. “We already have…

Marion Elvy from Community Law Marlborough receives an Adult Leaders Week Award

Marion Elvy from Community Law Marlborough receives an Adult Leaders Week Award in Blenheim for her Lunchtime Law Workshops held in the local Library and other large workshops held in the region

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