Lucy Adams

Lucy Adams is manager of Homeless Law at Justice Connect, a legal organisation committed to fairness and justice through pro bono. Justice Connect helps people facing disadvantage who are ineligible for legal aid and cannot afford a lawyer—and the community groups who support them—to access free legal assistance. Lucy has worked with clients experiencing homelessness since 2007, both as a pro bono lawyer at a Melbourne law firm and, since 2010, at Homeless Law (and its predecessor, the PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic). In 2013 she undertook a Churchill Fellowship on the criminalisation of homelessness and in 2016 she was the Law Institute of Victoria’s Community Lawyer of the Year.