Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) provides free legal assistance to people who live, work and study in Melbourne’s east. ECLC actively engages in law reform, and undertakes community development to educate and empower the community.
ECLC’s strategic plans set the priorities and the focus for the years ahead to help employees and other stakeholders work toward common goals that will ensure ECLC continues to deliver essential free legal and other services to communities in Melbourne’s east.
ECLC’s Code of Conduct ensures and encourages the highest qualities of integrity and behaviour across the organisation. It applies to all members, volunteers, board members and staff of ECLC.
ECLC’s legal programs provide advice, advocacy and support to people on specific legal matters, such as elder abuse, family violence and issues experienced by students and graduates.
ECLC works with communities and community members living in Boroondara, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Whitehorse and Yarra Ranges and provides free legal and other services to people living in this region from three office locations and other outreach locations.
ECLC mostly provides legal services to people living in the local government areas of Boroondara, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Whitehorse and the Yarra Ranges.
Become a volunteer and join the ECLC team. The very generous assistance and time given by all of ECLC’s volunteers enable it to provide the range of free essential legal and other services needed by communities in the eastern region of Melbourne.
Become a member of ECLC which is a community-based organisation, with a strong and active membership base. People who live, work or study in ECLC’s catchment area are eligible to apply for membership.
Make a tax-deductible donation using a secure online portal to help ECLC continue to provide essential free legal and other services to communities in the eastern region of Melbourne.
Tell ECLC how satisfied you are with its services by completing its client satisfaction survey. The survey has 15 questions which will take you about 10 minutes to complete. Your response is confidential and will not affect your right to use ECLC services.
Client stories are real stories that show others how ECLC helps its clients. All client stories are anonymous and have no identifying information. Names and details have been changed to protect client confidentiality.
September 12, 2023 ECLC currently sends one lawyer to the Ringwood Specialist Family Violence Court four days per week. PICTURE: STEWART CHAMBERS 357196_01 By Tyler Wright The Eastern ...
June 21, 2023 By Margaret Paul Posted Fri 9 Jun 2023 at 6:13amFriday 9 Jun 2023 at 6:13am, updated Sat 10 Jun 2023 at 9:42am Two years on from the storm that destroyed their “forever ...
June 16, 2023 By Tyler Wright To prepare for and respond collaboratively to disaster risks and hazard after a funding boost from the federal government, The Eastern Community Legal Centre ...
June 1, 2023 Eastern Community Legal Centre’s Kate Gibson, Manager – Primary Prevention and Education, was recently interviewed on Radio Eastern FM 98.1 Kate discussed the ...
May 23, 2023 By Parker McKenzie An independent review has hailed the success of two programs run in partnership by Eastern Health and Eastern Legal Community Centre to combat elder abuse ...
January 24, 2023 Advocates call for boost in anti-scam measures to protect Australians in diverse communities. By Jarni Blakkarly People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) ...
December 2, 2022 On Tuesday, 29th November, Belinda Lo, Director, Legal Services/Principal Lawyer and The Federation of Community Legal Centres’ Rachel Pliner were interviewed on ...
November 10, 2022 By Matilda Morozzi Dilal* knows the impact of going to court for a family violence matter with no support. Key points: Specialist family violence courts are designed to ...
November 3, 2022 Eastern Community Centre’s ‘Hidden Voices’ initiatives was helped by Partnership Program funding from Yarra Ranges Council. PICTURE: SUPPLIED By Tyler Wright ...
November 3, 2022 74 year-old Croydon man Alexei Ho at the Boronia Progress Hall, where his art work made alongside five other adults over 60 and nine primary school students from Boronia K-12 ...