Partners

The Gold Coast District Law Association aims to provide a forum for local legal practitioners to connect with each other and the community and to advance the interests of justice and the practice of law on the Gold Coast.

Queensland is home to Australia’s most geographically widespread legal profession. Solicitors practising in Far North Queensland are further from Brisbane than people living in Melbourne. This led to the establishment of 19 District Law Associations which have the opportunity to communicate as often and as closely with QLS as their Brisbane-based colleagues.

The Queensland Law Society recognises the importance of regional solicitors in its efforts to educate and inform the community about their rights and responsibilities under the law.

As Queensland’s second most populous and fastest growing city, the Gold Coast is playing an increasingly influential role in the state and the country’s legal profession. Over 1,000 practise on the Gold Coast.

Queensland Law Society provides a dynamic hub for Queensland’s legal community and seeks to engage actively with its members and the public to provide leadership, practical solutions and reliable support.

We represent and promote more than 9,000 legal professionals, increase community understanding of the law, help protect the rights of individuals and advise the community about the many benefits solicitors can provide.

Queensland Law Society assists legal practitioners to continually improve their services, while monitoring their practices to ensure they meet the high standards set for the profession in Queensland.  And we assist the public by advising government on improvements to laws affecting Queenslanders, and working to improve their access to the law.

We hold specific statutory responsibilities, including the issuing of practising certificates, maintaining solicitors’ records, regulating the operation of solicitors’ trust accounts and protecting the public.

Queensland Law Society is incorporated under the Legal Profession Act 2007, and is governed by a council elected by our members.

Community Legal Centres Queensland provides support and advocacy for 34 independent, community-led community legal centres operating across Queensland.

Queensland’s community legal centres provide free information, legal assistance and referral, representation and casework, community education and advocacy for vulnerable clients and communities facing legal problems.

Community Legal Centres Queensland works towards the following objectives:

to promote the development of community legal centres.
to enhance communication and cooperation between community legal centres.
to secure and develop funding for community legal centres.
to represent the interests and opinions of members.

Community Legal Centres Australia is the national peak body for the community legal sector, in particular community legal centres across Australia.

We are an independent, non-profit organisation established to support the community legal sector and ensure provision of free and accessible legal and related services to everyday people, including people experiencing discrimination and disadvantage.

Our members are the State and Territory peak bodies of community legal centres. Together, our organisations represent around 170 community legal centres, Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services across Australia.

We strive to be leaders in good practice for other civil society organisations, to advocate for justice and the promotion and protection of human rights, to be responsive to the needs of the community legal sector and to maintain and strengthen the collaborative networks that allow our sector to provide holistic support to communities.

On May 15, 1989, Bond University welcomed its first cohort of 322 students at its brand new, state-of-the-art campus on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Modelled on the traditions of the world’s most elite educational institutions, the vision for Australia’s first private, not-for-profit university was to provide an exclusive educational experience of the highest international standards, under the tutelage of the country’s leading academics.

Our values:

Our vision is to be one of the most influential universities in Australia and the Asia–Pacific region.

The Gold Coast is known for its lifestyle. We have an enviable year-round climate and an amazing natural environment boasting world-renowned beaches, waterways and a majestic hinterland. Visitors have been flocking to the Gold Coast from the days when it was a sleepy seaside resort town and continue to do so as we develop into a city of international stature.

Lifestyle is at the heart of what makes us tick. It’s the reason the city’s population continues to grow as we continue to attract new residents from interstate and overseas. It has influenced the way our city has grown and left its mark on the way we live, work and play. Our attitudes, environment, architecture and industry have combined to produce a city that is uniquely Gold Coast – a city unlike any other.

Our City Vision, “Inspired by lifestyle. Driven by opportunity.” has three themes, place, prosperity, and people.

The St Vincent de Paul Society was founded by a 20 year old student named Frederic Ozanam in 1833. It was established by like minded individuals who wished to put their faith into action.

This compassionate outlook, enthusiasm and vision continues today in Australia. There are thousands of people who every day share their time, care for humanity and energy to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people all around Australia.

When we speak about social justice we go to the heart of what the St Vincent de Paul Society stands for.

We are called, as Vincentians, to feed, clothe, house and assist our brothers and sisters who are forced onto the margins of society.

We are also called to ask why they are left out and pushed out.

We are Toshiba. We have an unwavering drive
to make and do things that lead too a better world.

A planet that’s safer and cleaner.
A society that’s both sustainable and dynamic.
A life as comfortable as it is exciting.

That’s the future we believe in.
We see its possibilities, and work
every day to deliver answers that
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By combining the power of invention
with our expertise and desire for better world,
we imagine things that have never been –
and make them a reality.

That is our potential. Working together,
we inspire belief in each other and
our customers that no challenge is too great,
and there’s no promise we can’t fulfill.

We turn on the promise of a new day.

For any law firm, keeping up with changes in the different fields of law is an incredibly time-consuming and costly exercise.

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