Legal Education
Wellington Community Law Centre offers a range of legal education to the community including legal education series, tailored legal education to individual community organisations and our regular lunchtime seminar series at the Wellington City Library: Law for Lunch.
For more information contact the Community Education Worker: alex@wclc.org.nz
Law for Lunch, March 2010
FREE lunchtime seminars. Every Wednesday in March, 12-1pm at the Wellington City Library.
3 March: "NAVIGATING THE ACC"
John Miller, ACC lawyer and Wellingtonian of the Year
- What are your entitlements?
- Different kinds of ACC compensation
- How do you challenge an ACC decision?
- The tribunal or Dispute Resolution Services Limited (DRSL)
10 March: "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: A GUIDE TO BUYING BIG TICKET ITEMS"
Joseph Liava’a, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
- That Plasma TV: a good investment?
- Buying on credit
- Consumer Guarantees Act
- Extended warranties
- Hardship applications
- Rights when goods are being repossessed
17 March : "FAMILY TRUSTS: POLITICIANS USE THEM, SO CAN YOU!"
John Stevens, Managing Partner, Johnston Lawrence Lawyers
- Keeping your Trust in Order
- Trust Busting (when courts overturn property transfers to trusts)
- Helping children buy houses
- How is a trust’s income taxed?
24 March: "WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT SCHOOL BULLIES?"
Janis Carroll-Lind, Principal Advisor (Education), Office of the Children’s Commissioner
- Bullying in Schools: your child’s rights
- Stopping bullying: changing the whole school culture, fostering safe reporting systems, or cracking down on individual bullies?
- How to help change the culture of bullying
For more information please contact alex@wclc.org.nz
Legal Education for Community Workers
An annual series of workshops to provide community workers and advocates with a working knowledge of everyday law.
Tailored Legal Education
We are able to provide legal education to community organisations, community workers or members of the general public, on many areas of law. We can tailor sessions to meet the specific training needs of individual groups. Legal topics include:
- ACC
- Charitable Trusts and Incorporated Societies
- Consumer
- Criminal Justice
- Domestic Violence and Harrassment
- Employment
- Family
- Immigration
- Legal Aid
- Legal System
- Mental Health
- NZ Law for Refugees and Migrants
- Older Persons
- Police and the Courts
- Privacy
- Tenancy
- Youth
For more information contact alex@wclc.org.nz