About Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS)
The Top End Women’s Legal Service (‘TEWLS’) is a not-for-profit, specialist women’s legal service focused on the advancement of women’s rights. We provide integrated, holistic, trauma-informed and culturally secure free legal and support services to women, and persons identifying as women, living in the Top End of the Northern Territory (primarily, the Greater Darwin region).
TEWLS provides services in the areas of family, migration and civil law, with specific expertise held in respect of domestic, family and sexual violence. TEWLS also provides community legal education and input on law and policy development to redress power imbalances and address violence and gender inequality.
TEWLS services regional, rural and remote communities, including daily in-house clinics, on-site clinics at women’s shelters and the Darwin Correctional Centre, and specialist community services.
TEWLS’ service model means that a client can access legal assistance from a single point of contact in multiple areas of law, reducing trauma and increasing efficiency and costs-savings for funding bodies, with specialisation in clients with intersectional vulnerabilities.
