Liz Snell: Casework and Law Reform through Community Legal Centres

How can community legal centres best support those in need? How can their activist role lead to progressive law reform, improving the criminal legal system so that it works more effectively? How can we elevate the voices of victim survivors? In this episode, Sydney Law School’s Social Justice Advisory Board co-chairs, Rachel Killean and Ben Mostyn, speak with our current practitioner-in-residence, Liz Snell, about legal assistance as a fundamental human right, about community legal centres’ role in the adoption of NSW’s new coercive control legislation, and about practicing social justice in everyday circumstances. Liz Snell is interested in researching and better understanding the mechanisms required to ensure and support successful implementation of recommendations in inquiries with a focus on inquiries responding to gender-based violence. Liz has worked as the Law Reform and Policy Co-ordinator at Women's Legal Service for over a decade. Women's Legal Service is a specialist community legal centre run by and for women that aims to achieve access to justice and a just legal system for women in NSW.