Legal

The UMSU Legal Service will be closed from 5pm on Thursday, 17 April 2025 over the Easter and ANZAC Day public holidays, and will re-open at 9am on Monday, 28 April 2025.

If you need urgent legal advice while the service is closed, please contact Victoria Legal Aid on 1300 792 387.

The UMSU Legal Service is a nationally-accredited community legal centre that provides free and confidential legal help and financial counselling to current University of Melbourne students.

The legal service is staffed by qualified lawyers, and provides assistance on various legal issues, including:

  • Renting
  • Employment law
  • Fines / infringements
  • Minor criminal law
  • Consumer law
  • Car and bike accidents
  • Family violence / personal safety
  • Discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • Debts

Before contacting the UMSU Legal Service, we recommend reviewing our Legal Information resources below - you can find the answers to many common legal issues here. Please also review our page on Working with your Lawyer below to help you understand how we operate, and what to expect when you contact us.

To contact us, please select Get Legal Help below to complete our contact form.

Our contact form is available to submit new enquiries every week from Monday to Thursday. For enquiries outside our contact hours, we recommend contacting Victoria Legal Aid here.

 

Last updated: 6 March 2025

UMSU Legal Service is a generalist Community Legal Centre providing free, confidential legal advice to all currently enrolled UniMelb students. We are qualified lawyers providing assistance on legal matters not related to university necessarily, but things that might occur in your life while you’re a student – including traffic, public transport or fines, debts, scams, tenancy, traffic accidents and employment among other things. If we can’t help, we’ll know someone who can!