Affording Justice

25/02/2022

Elizabeth Shearer has completed her term as Queensland Law Society President, and we are pleased to welcome her back to our practice.

After a very busy year leading the solicitors' branch of the legal profession in Queensland, Elizabeth is looking forward to returning to client work.

It's 10 years since Elizabeth established Affording Justice, and it remains a unique and innovative part of providing access to justice.

15/01/2015

Our Legal Task Help is an example of "unbundled" legal services. Find out more at http://affordingjustice.com.au/unbundled-legal-service/

At Affording Justice, we call these services Legal Task Help. We assess your case to make sure it is suitable for this type of help, and then we enter into an agreement with you about what tasks you will do, and what we will do.

30/09/2014

Affording Justice Director, Elizabeth Shearer, was recently interviewed for New Lawyer Language. You can read the interview here http://newlawyerlanguage.com/2014/09/09/elizabeth-shearer/

What makes a lawyer a great lawyer? My definition of a great lawyer is probably a bit different to many. For me, it’s not about doing the high profile cases in complex areas of law. I think a great...

24/09/2014

Can a Facebook post amount to defamation?
Read more at http://affordingjustice.com.au/defamation-facebook/

We get a number of queries from people concerned about what someone else has said about them. Increasingly the concern relates to posts on Facebook.

11/09/2014

It's an unfortunate sign of the times, but we seem to be getting more queries from people being made redundant from their jobs. If a redundancy is not genuine, it can amount to unfair dismissal. Read more at http://affordingjustice.com.au/redundancy-genuine/

19/11/2013

Affording Justice is featured in the new report from the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT. Our practice is given as an example of an innovation to fill the access to justice gap - that is help for people who are not poor enough to get legal aid, but not rich enough to be able to afford traditional legal services. We are delighted to have our work recognised in this way.

You can find a link to the report here http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=gyodadf0rfnqz

11/10/2012

A new survey about the legal needs of people in Australia was published today by the Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales. It finds that almost half of all Australians experience a legal problem in each year, and about a quarter of us experience a substantial legal problem.

These problems were associated with financial strain, stress related illnesses, physical ill health, relationship breakdown and even having to move home.

The survey shows that while people seek help, they don't necessarily ask a lawyer.

At Affording Justice we try to make asking a lawyer and getting legal help as accessible as possible, so that people can use the law to solve problems before they have those negative consequences. If you need help with a legal problem, get in touch.

You can read more about the survey athttp://www.lawfoundation.net.au/ljf/site/templates/LAW_AUS/$file/LAW_Survey_Summary_FINAL.pdf