Working Australia-wide
Professional IT support and para-legal advocacy services. I help individuals and small organisations untangle technical challenges and administrative disputes with patience and precision — wherever you are in Australia.
Practical support where technology meets bureaucracy
Information access requests in any Australian jurisdiction — Freedom of Information at the Commonwealth level, Right to Information in Queensland, GIPA in New South Wales, and the equivalent schemes elsewhere. Under APP 12 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) you can also ask what a Commonwealth agency, or a private organisation above the $3 million turnover threshold, holds about you personally. Plus human rights complaints, ombudsman processes, and review when an agency says no. Start with my free guides for Queensland (opens in new tab), New South Wales (opens in new tab) and Western Australia (opens in new tab).
Practical technical assistance for individuals and small organisations. From troubleshooting and setup to website maintenance and email configuration — technology that works for you.
Thorough investigation and clear documentation for complex matters. Whether it's preparing submissions, gathering evidence, or understanding regulatory frameworks — attention to detail matters.
As a certified Appenate (opens in new tab) Consulting Partner, I help organisations harness the power of mobile data capture. This incredibly flexible platform allows you to collect, manipulate, and export data with almost entirely customisable workflows.
I believe in principled engagement — being firm on matters of substance while maintaining respectful, professional communication. Complex problems deserve patient, methodical attention rather than quick fixes.
Having navigated administrative and legal systems extensively, I understand both the frustration they can cause and the pathways available to those who are prepared to advocate clearly for their rights.
"Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt"
Free tools and guides
Built while studying law at UNE and free for anyone to use — games and drills for recall, a trainer for problem questions, reference maps of whole doctrines, and plain-English guides to the information-access laws of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia for the public. Each opens in a new tab as its own page.
Start here Contract Clinic — randomised problem questions from 177 scenario templates across all ten LAW172 topics, marked step by step. Open Contract Clinic (opens in new tab)
Trainer · LAW172
A problem-question trainer for all ten LAW172 topics. It deals a fictional fact pattern with randomised names, goods and prices, then marks you step by step — issue, limbs, verdict, authority, relief — and steers later problems toward your weaker elements. 177 scenario templates, four Element Navigator flowcharts, a case appendix of about 560 cases, and search across everything.
Open Contract Clinic (opens in new tab)Game · LAW172 Topics 1–6
The Clinic's companion recall drill, dealt on a casino table. Roll two dice, take your hand of case chips and match each to the one-line precedent it stands for. Every precedent takes one claim only, so a wrong call locks it for the round — and fake summaries are planted among the real ones; claim one and the house reclaims a banked case. 123 cases on the wheel.
Play Contract Law Roulette (opens in new tab)Reference · LAW172
The whole contract law unit drawn as maps: a fifteen-gate corridor opening into 22 flowcharts, a timeline of 557 cases with playable doctrine lines, worked examples whose facts you can switch, printable cram sheets, a practice game and 533 case notes. One self-contained page with no outside dependencies, so it works offline once loaded.
Open the Visual Atlas (opens in new tab)Game · LAW172 in practice
A retro-terminal lawyer simulator. Create a solicitor and run a year in a New South Wales sole practice: take nine matters drawn from all ten LAW172 topics, build each legal element against the clock, manage money, staff, insurance and composure, survive 24 events, and put the case to the bench on a 2d10 roll. Real authorities, marked ACTUAL LAW; the outcomes are dramatised.
Play Interesting Times (opens in new tab)Game · Legal skills
Snakes and ladders through the Australian court hierarchy. Twenty challenge squares on a 100-square board test precedent and stare decisis, AGLC4 citation ordering, binding-or-persuasive judgement, jurists' quotes and legal theory across six formats, with an explanation after every answer. Loads React from a CDN, so it needs a connection.
Play Lex Serpentis (opens in new tab)Game · Legal skills
A randomly generated 100-square board for one to four players. Snake, ladder and question squares each fire an AGLC4 citation question, and every explanation names the rule. Twenty built-in questions across eight categories, plus a Quiz Mode that runs the whole bank in random order with a graded result.
Play AGLC4 Citation Masters (opens in new tab)Guide · LAW100/LLM533
For UNE Foundations of Law, Topic 5. Nine panels lay out the literal, golden and purposive approaches, the modern approach and extrinsic aids as clickable flowcharts, with 106 detail notes carrying footnoted AGLC4 references, thirteen High Court case scorecards and the five Exercise 13 problems.
Open the Flow Guide (opens in new tab)Guide · Queensland · for the public
A plain-English guide to Queensland's Right to Information Act 2009 and Information Privacy Act 2009 as amended on 1 July 2025 — for anyone who wants documents from an agency, a record about themselves corrected, or a privacy complaint heard. A short questionnaire routes you to the right procedure; 385 provisions open with the Act's exact words and a translation; a calculator counts the business-day deadlines; twelve letter templates cover applications, reviews and complaints.
Open the Queensland guide (opens in new tab)Guide · New South Wales · for the public
For anyone trying to get information out of a NSW government agency. A six-question route finder sorts the four GIPA pathways, from free published material to a $30 formal application. Alongside it: a worksheet setting out the fifteen public-interest considerations without scoring them, a working-day deadline calculator, four adaptable letters, how to challenge a "we don't hold it" answer, and the privacy regime under the PPIP Act where GIPA stops short.
Open the NSW Pathfinder (opens in new tab)Guide · Western Australia · for the public
For anyone in Western Australia who wants to see a government document, or correct a record about themselves. It works through the Freedom of Information Act 1992 from writing the application to appealing the decision, with a deadline calculator, a fee estimator, four letter templates, all seventeen Schedule 1 exemptions set out clause by clause, and plain-English notes on 33 Information Commissioner decisions.
Open the WA guide (opens in new tab)Everything here is written by a law student and is general information, not legal advice — verify anything load-bearing against the primary sources. Where a tool keeps progress, it is kept only in your own browser. Contract Clinic, Contract Law Roulette and the Visual Atlas are released under CC BY 4.0 (opens in new tab) — free to use, adapt and share with attribution (quoted judgments, statutes and unit materials excepted). Found an error? Tell me.
Whether you're facing a technical challenge or navigating a complex administrative matter, I'm here to help you find a way forward.
0490 778 202 me [at] russluck.tech
Working Australia-wide · by phone, email and video