Yesterday I had my first meeting with a new client – the Director of the National Association of Community Legal Centres. I have been put on this project because of my background in doing civil justice projects in the UK. When I met her and explained my background it turned out that she was familiar with a number of the reports I had written whilst at Matrix. She told me that she had been forwarded our reports from her UK equivilant and she in turn had sent them on to the Australian Attorney General’s Department. In one of the reports we reviewed the effectiveness of partnership bodies called Community Legal Service Partnerships – it turns out that they were about to develop similar partnerships over here but our the findings of our report influenced them to rethink. I’m pretty chuffed really!!