- UC Law Clinic - free legal advice on campus
Room 151A, Business and Law Building, University Drive
Open on select Wednesdays. Email your preferred appointment day, time, contact details and a brief outline of what you are seeking advice on to law-clinic@canterbury.ac.nz.
- Community Law Canterbury
198 Montreal Street, Christchurch Central
Email: admin@canlaw.org.nz
Phone: +64 3 366 6970
Legal information line 0508 226 529 (0508 CANLAW)
Community Law Canterbury is a free law centre which can help with information by phone and email on most areas of law. It is operated by volunteer solicitors, senior law students and graduates, under the supervision of a solicitor. Legal advice can only be provided in person. To gain advice visit during one of the drop-in times listed on the Community Law website or make an appointment to visit one of the centres at Montreal Street or Shaw Ave, New Brighton.
- Migrant and Ethnic Community Support Trust
Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Email: info@mecst.org.nz
Phone: 0800 132 559
Migrant and Ethnic Community support Trust is a non-profit charitable trust, that aims to achieve social, equity, inclusion and social cohesion by better economic integration of the migrant workers, refugees and people from the ethnic communities in the New Zealand society.
- New Zealand Law Society
307 Durham Street, Christchurch 8013
PO Box 565, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Email: canterbury-westland@lawsociety.org.nz
Phone: +64 3 366 9184
The New Zealand Law Society can provide a list of registered lawyers who can help you.
