Trials and Tribulations in Community Law is the story about Neville Coleman, a fresh, young lawyer, while working at the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Service in the early 1980s. Neville's stories tell of his personal experience while representing individuals experiencing hardships such as domestic violence, single motherhood, youth unemployment, homophobic and discriminatory social attitudes and police brutality and corruption. Neil gently tells these stories set within the kaleidoscope of the severe 1980s recession where unemployment rates in the Flemington and Kensington community housing high-rises were at a staggering 50% of the young people living there. Some of his clients included the runner who later killed three people during the gangland wars that began in Melbourne in 1998. Another was shot by police, the first of many police shootings that followed in the subsequent years. The book tells of the underworld that was to dominate Melbourne society throughout the 1980s to the early 2000s