Griffith Law School alumnus Terrence Stedman was awarded twice at the 2018 Queensland Law Society Profession Awards, taking out the Community Legal Centre Member of the Year and the Equity Advocate Award for his service to the community.
One of Terry’s most remarkable achievements during his decade long career at Southwest Brisbane Community Legal Centre, is the successful introduction of a duty lawyer service for child protection matters – the first of its kind in Queensland.
Terry says it was one of the biggest anomalies he could see in the system when he started.
“Families were turning up to court, after their children had been grabbed, not knowing what’s happening in the system and they’d go into meltdown because Department of Child Safety wanted to put their children into care until they were 18,” says Terry.
“We approached the Department of Justice and Attorney-General and proposed the service.”
The duty lawyer service ran for five
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