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Civil - core areas of legal aid work

Extended Legal Assistance is available to assist clients:

To appeal or review a school suspension or expulsion,
To lodge complaints about a school suspension, expulsion or other exclusion to the school or the NSW Department of Education, and
With any dispute resolution process arising from a complaint about a suspension, expulsion or other exclusion from school.

To be eligible for Extended Legal Assistance a client must satisfy the following eligibility tests:

ELA Merit Test, and
Legal Aid NSW is satisfied that the child or young person that is the subject of the matter is
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or
- in Out of Home Care, or
- involved in the criminal justice system, or
- living with a disability or mental illness.

There will be no Means Test applied to these matters.

Note: The client may be the child or young person that is the subject of the matter, or their parent or guardian.

Date last published: 07/09/2020