About
DONE BY LAW is grassroots radio for social justice on community radio station 3CR in Melbourne, Australia. We have been on the air since 1980, giving listeners our unique and irreverent take on current legal news. Presented by the Federation of Community Legal Centres and a team of legal and non-legal presenters, we make sense of everything from new graffiti laws to refugee law.
Tune in to 3CR 855AM on Tuesdays at 6PM for the most engaging and accessible legal speak you’ll ever hear. And of course, you can listen to the show online or subscribe to our podcast.
The Done By Law team is:
ANGELA LANGAN
Angela Langan is a criminal lawyer who worked for many years in Legal Aid and CLCs, including four years as principal solicitor at Fitzroy Legal Service. Angela is on maternity leave from her current position of Team Leader, Policy and Research, at the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
CAMILLA PANDOLFINI
Camilla Pandolfini’s passion for the community legal sector was kick-started by her paid and volunteer work at the Federation of Community Legal Centres from 2004 - 2007. Camilla now works as a criminal lawyer at Victoria Legal Aid and is a volunteer and Committee of Management member at Darebin Community Legal Centre. Prior to starting at Legal Aid, Camilla completed her Articles of Clerkship at a plaintiff firm. Camilla has been involved with 3CR community radio since 2001, producing music shows, current affairs shows and as a trainer, and is currently on the 3CR Training Sub-Committee. Camilla has been a presenter on Done by Law since 2007.
HALA ATWA
Hala Atwa joined Done by Law in 2008. She has been a lawyer at Youthlaw since 2006 and has always loved being able to work with organisations that share her interest in social justice. Hala completed her articles with the North Melbourne Legal Service in 2004 and joined them as a lawyer upon qualification. Prior to joining Youthlaw, Hala worked as the Night Service Lawyer at the Fitzroy Legal Service and at Darebin Community Legal Service where she was a duty lawyer within the Family Violence Division at the Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court. Hala loves being a community lawyer and getting to mix casework, community education and law reform throughout her busy day. She thinks she has the best job ever!
ISOLDE LUECKENHAUSEN
Isolde Lueckenhausen is media and entertainment lawyer, who has volunteered at Community Legal Centres for many years and is on the board of the International Women’s Development Agency Trust and the Victorian Writers’ Centre. She has been loving her gig on Done by Law since 2004.
KATE FISCHER
Kate Fischer is a public interest lawyer, writer and mother, though not always in that order. She currently works at the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) assisting community organisations and recently completed a Masters in Law. Kate has also taught first year law students and worked in private practice.
MARIAN PRICKETT
Marian Prickett has been involved in community media for the past ten years and has worked at the Tenant’s Union of Victoria, Western Suburbs Legal Service and Youthlaw. She joined the Done By Law team in 2006 and is currently working as a freelance journalist.
SAM SOWERWINE
Sam Sowerwine never quite imagined she would complete her law degree but miraculously graduated and went on to complete her articles of clerkship at Victoria Legal Aid in 2005. She then worked as a lawyer in the Human Rights and Civil Law Section of Victoria Legal Aid, specialising in refugee law from 2006 to 2007. She is now a lawyer at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Sam has been involved with 3CR community radio station since 2001, producing music shows, current affairs and as a trainier. Sam has been presenting Done by Law since 2003. Sam is currently on the Committee of Management for 3CR.
SHANE RESIDE
Shane has been a community worker and activist in Melbourne for about seven years, working on an eclectic mix of social and environmental justice projects. He joined 3CR in 2004 where he did Friday morning breakfast for about twelve months. Shane is currently one of the project workers for the Racism Project, a research and community development project being jointly auspiced by Springvale Monash, Western Suburbs and Fitzroy Legal Services.
TABITHA LOVETT
Tabitha Lovett is the Grants Manager at the Victoria Law Foundation which funds projects that enhance access to justice, foster a better and more responsive justice system or improve community awareness and understanding of the law. Previously she was the manager of the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) in Victoria which provides free legal assistance to eligible individuals and community based non-profit organisations. In 2007, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research innovative pro bono programs and clinics in the United States which seek to strengthen community development.
