A letter seen by the ABC shows the Northern Territory's Legal Aid Commission is planning to cut critical legal services from January next year due to a lack of funding.
The NT Legal Aid Commission is facing a funding shortfall from next year.The Northern Territory 's Legal Aid Commission has indicated it will have to cut critical services from January 1 due to a lack of funding.
In a letter addressed to key stakeholders on September 27, seen by the ABC, Legal Aid NT's former acting director Fiona Hussin said the body would have to scale back services from January 1 due to insufficient funding, following meetings with the NT government. The service will also cease all remote court services, stop grants of aid for referrals for criminal law services in remote "bush courts", and will limit crime duty lawyer services to Legal Aid lawyers only, meaning private practitioners will no longer be contracted to provide duty services at a court or tribunal.
Legal aid services in Alice Springs are experiencing a lawyer shortage, leaving some people who have been charged with crimes to navigate the justice system alone. Thalia Anthony, a professor of law at the University of Technology Sydney, said community legal services around Australia have previously had to cut services due to a lack of funding.SuppliedHowever, she said "for this to happen in Legal Aid and on such a large scale, for me, appears unprecedented".
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