Top End Women's Legal Service
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 NT. TEWLS provides services in the areas of family, migration and civil law, with specific expertise held in respect of domestic, family and sexual violence (‘DFSV’). 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 providing essential front-end legal services.