It is funded by the Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales and supported by Herbert Smith Freehills, and has won many awards and honours for its work.
It takes on cases where there is no other source of assistance or where acting for the client will benefit the community by achieving change in the law or government policy.
[11] In 1982, the centre was consulted by the Ethnic Communities' Council of New South Wales after the New South Wales Board of Senior School Studies made an error in the marking of the Higher School Certificate Modern Greek examination which had caused a number of students to miss out on their choice of university admissions.
[13][14][15] In 2002, Kingsford Legal Centre successfully represented a mother who had suffered workplace discrimination on the grounds of family responsibilities.
[16] In 2003, Kingsford Legal Centre were instructing solicitors in a case before a Full Bench of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission which "strengthened the rights of thousands of workers who are labelled casuals, but who are effectively permanent part-time staff.