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ABC News
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The Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, has launched a free national legal advisory service for people wanting to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The service will be run by the National Association of Community Legal Centres and will be independent of the Royal Commission and Government.
Transcript
ELEANOR HALL: The Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus QC, has launched a free legal service for people wanting to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Mr Dreyfus told Samantha Donovan that the service will be independent of the commission and will be run by the National Association of Community Legal Centres.
MARK DREYFUS: This is a service which is going to provide advice to anyone attending the Royal Commission, including the people that are attending the private sessions of the Royal Commission.
It won’t be providing legal representation as such, but it’ll assist people in providing legal representation if that’s required.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: What sort of issues do you think people will primarily be seeking advice on?
MARK DREYFUS: I think that people will be seeking advice on how the Commission is going to operate, what sort of things they will be called on to do, and quite possibly people will ask for assistance in getting a lawyer.
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