‘Saying no has an enormous impact’: overwhelmed community legal centres forced to turn away clients

Precarious funding is putting acute strain on the sector with lawyers having to prioritise ‘the neediest of the needy’

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New clients are rarely accepted at Inner Melbourne Community Legal centre, where lawyers say the pressure of handling the cases they already have is becoming overwhelming.

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