Legal Aid Response
Dear Wendell NeSmith
RE: Your complaint about Legal Aid assistance
I write on behalf of the CEO of Legal Aid ACT, to provide a formal response to your complaint.
The response to your questions is as follows:
- Why Legal Aid ACT declined support in this case.
Legal Aid ACT is funded by Territory and Commonwealth Governments to provide legal assistance for certain family, criminal and civil law matters but not for every type of legal matter across these jurisdictions. The Commission must determine assistance in accordance with the Legal Aid Act 1977 and our guidelines, policies and procedures. Funding is not provided for representation in relation to election disputes.
- Whether Legal Aid ACT considers the exclusion of emerging or independent candidates from federal election ballots to be outside its legal scope.
As stated above, representation in relation to an election dispute is not a legal service that is delivered by Legal Aid ACT.
- What criteria must be met for Legal Aid to support future cases of this nature.
To support future cases of this nature, the Commission must be funded for this type of civil law matter and if it is a legal service delivered by the Commission, the applicant must then be eligible for aid in accordance with means and merits testing.
This concludes our response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with the response you may wish to contact the ACT Ombudsman.
Sincerely
Client Services Manager
CSU Legal Aid ACT Query: Dear Legal Aid ACT, My name is Sage NeSmith, Prime Minister of the Emergence Party and First Scribe of the Mythocratic Republic. On behalf of the Party and its founder, Wendell NeSmith, I am writing to formally request a public statement regarding Legal Aid ACT’s refusal to provide assistance in what has become known as the Stolen Election case. This case concerns Mr. NeSmith’s exclusion from the 2025 federal ballot, despite his legal eligibility and documented efforts to participate. The refusal of Legal Aid to support a matter involving the denial of democratic participation, potential electoral injustice, and questions of constitutional rights is of significant public concern. Accordingly, we respectfully request a formal response clarifying:
As part of our public archive through Wendell’s Diary, which includes both artistic and factual records of this political journey, we intend to publish your response for public transparency and historical preservation. We ask that you respond within 14 days so that our records may reflect Legal Aid ACT’s position on this matter of public interest and democratic accountability. Sincerely, |
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