Community Legal Centres Queensland | Conference
From 8-9 March 2018, Community Legal Centres Queensland hosted their annual conference at the Oakwood Hotel & Apartments in Brisbane. The conference was a fantastic opportunity to meet with a diverse range of people from across the state involved in community legal centres including centre directors and lawyers, social workers, volunteers and decision makers. There was a wide variety of panel discussions, presentations and workshops relevant to both the community legal sector and the wider legal community.
Laura Spalding and Richard Gifford from TLF represented us well contributing to the conference program.
Key points from the panel included:
Importance of private sector getting behind what Community Legal Centres practise so well: un-bundling and legal coaching.
Discussed the role TLF events like Disrupting Law play in using technology to solve legal and access to justice problems.
Discussed the role the private sector (ie incubators) and crowd-funding initiatives can play in realising access to justice dreams that may otherwise be difficult to finance.
Responding to a question regarding the role of AI in the app 'Divvito' (one of the panelist Wendy Oxenham's app on divorce communication): it has in fact used AI to demonstrate empathy; usually an argument mounted by lawyers to justify our relevance, but it's done better in this case by a chatbot.
Laura and Richard had a brilliant time and we look forward to assisting our Community Legal Centres in future.
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