Conflict of Interest Checks

If you are accessing GRC Legal Services we must do a Conflict of Interest Check before we can assist you.

You will need to provide your full name and the name of any other person involved in your case, so that we can search our records for any potential or existing conflict of interest.

What is a conflict of interest and how are you affected?

Geraldton Resource Centre (GRC) provides numerous services to the community including community legal service programs like the Geraldton Community Legal Service, Rural Women’s Legal Outreach Service, Indigenous Women’s Legal Outreach Service and Financial Counselling. And as such GRC operates according to national standards and professional requirements in service delivery. Our conflict of interest policy is one of these important industry standards, that states that our service delivery clients must not be affected by:

Any interest of the service provider;
Any interest of any other person; or
The service provider's perception of the public interest.

A CONFLICT OF INTEREST therefore means for example:

"That we may have assisted the other person that you have the dispute with" e.g. family dispute or issues relating to separation and divorce.

OR

"That we may linked in some way with the other person", e.g. linked by, working with that person or already knowing about the problem or having a personal interest in the problem.

We can not assist both sides involved in the same legal problem.

All Legal Services and private solicitors follow a Conflict of Interest Policy.

If we tell you “that there is a Conflict of Interest”,

It doesn’t mean that we don’t want to help you.
It means that "we can’t help you" for professional reasons.

You are entitled to obtain independent legal advice and you may only be able to achieve this by finding another legal representative, one who does not have a conflict of interest.

If we have been unable to assist you due to a conflict of interest follow this link to locate alternative legal assistance in Geraldton. See Law Firms and Services