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Community Law Canterbury

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Community Law Canterbury

Law firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#22of 216 lawyers
Overall health9.0/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Community Law Canterbury is a not-for-profit legal service based in Christchurch Central City that provides free legal help to people across Canterbury and the Grey and Westland Districts. It offers general legal advice alongside specialist information services and can advise by phone or email when clients cannot attend in person, prioritising cases by legal urgency.

Community Law Canterbury is a not-for-profit legal service based in Christchurch Central City that works to reduce barriers to the law for people in Canterbury and the Grey and Westland Districts. It describes itself as providing quality, free legal help and aims to be accessible to those who face barriers in accessing justice.

Services include a general legal advice clinic and a range of specialist advice and information services. The organisation notes that clinic sessions are the fastest way to receive advice, but staff can also provide guidance by phone or email for clients who are unwell, self-isolating or otherwise unable to attend. Triage is used to prioritise matters by legal urgency rather than a first-in, first-served model.

Customers commonly report helpful, clear and professional assistance, with reviews noting guidance that led to positive resolutions and clearer next steps. Several reviews mention volunteers and law students supporting the service, and others comment on practical aspects such as available parking and multiple appointment slots across different specialties depending on a client's needs.

Locally, Community Law Canterbury is presented as a practical source of free legal advice for people facing access barriers, offering both in-person clinic sessions in Christchurch Central City and remote options by phone or email. The combination of general and specialist services, volunteer support and urgency-based prioritisation are core features that distinguish its local offering.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Community Law Canterbury shows a strong Google Business Listing health with a score of 8.2 out of 10. The listing is claimed and verified, displays open status, and includes a website link and contact number. The most notable findings are the solid listing status and accessible contact information, with room to add more high-quality photos to improve visibility.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
  • 2
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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4.1 ★★★★★ (257)
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Open 6 days · late Mon, Tue, Wed and Thu ✓
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From the business

Community Law Canterbury is a not-for-profit organisation which works to reduce and remove barriers to the law. We provide quality, free legal help to people in Canterbury and the Grey and Westland Districts, who face barriers in accessing justice. Community Law Canterbury offers a general legal advice service as well as specialist advice and information services.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Community Law Canterbury shows an above-average health score of 6.7 out of 10, indicating decent Google review performance overall. The business has a strong base with a top 10% total reviews, reinforcing local reputation. Key improvement is needed in responding to reviews to boost trust, while ratings and confidence show solid progress.

Strengths

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    Review countYou hold one of the deepest review banks in this market - social proof that does its own selling.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
9.1Strong
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Community Law Canterbury
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4.1★★★★★257 reviews ✓
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #21 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Community Law Canterbury shows a health score of 5.7 out of 10 for Google Maps performance, indicating average visibility with room to grow. The top finding is strong ranking for several key legal service keywords in central Christchurch areas, while aggregate and borough scores are improving but not yet hitting midpoints.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.0Good
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2Top three for "legal services" in 13 suburbs, seen in 76
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Community Law Canterbury14.1 ★ (257) · Law firm
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Canterbury Legal4.7 ★ (28) · Law firm
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Saunders & Co Christchurch4.9 ★ (540) · Law firm
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Harmans Lawyers4.3 ★ (46) · Law firm
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #86 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Community Law Canterbury shows above-average health with a 6.7/10, indicating solid social presence but room to grow. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile and an accurate LinkedIn Company listing, enhancing credibility and reach among clients and partners. Main opportunities focus on expanding active profiles.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/community-law-canterbury) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.0Good
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.

Top two opportunities

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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
8.6Strong
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1.9K followers ✓
Community Law Canterbury provides quality, free legal help to people in Canterbury.1
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★ 5 reviews · recommended 2
🌐 canlaw.org.nz✓
☎ +64 508 226 529
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #32 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Community Law Canterbury shows an above-average on-page SEO health with a 6.2/10 score. Strengths include a precise title tag in the ideal range, a valid favicon, fast load times under 3 seconds, a concise page size, and a relevant meta description. Opportunities focus on adding a meta description, reducing render-blocking resources, improving text-to-page size balance, and further refining the on-page SEO score.

Strengths

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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
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    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Community Law Canterbury shows a healthy website traffic profile, with strong organic performance and high traffic value. The standout finding is the domain's top-10% local rank for organic traffic, indicating solid visibility and relevance for local users. Paid activity remains undeveloped, suggesting potential for careful, targeted expansion.

Strengths

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth more than almost any business in this market - an enquiry stream with no cost per click behind it.

Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    Search terms you advertise onYou are not covering any search terms with ads, which for most local businesses here is normal.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 4 of them.
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www.canlaw.org.nzCommunity Law Canterbury / Te Ture Whanui o Waitaha

Community Law Canterbury offers a general legal advice service, information services, specialist advice, and education services. Read more

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✓About 2,212 visits a month from search, across 129 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #31 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Community Law Canterbury's opening hours largely match local demand for legal services during weekday middays, with 50 peak hours open and only 4 low-demand hours open. Strong alignment occurs around midweek lunchtimes, while several popular windows are missed on early mornings and weekend afternoons. A few weekday evenings are open despite lower demand, suggesting modest scope to tighten hours for efficiency.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.7Strong
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Community Law Canterbury
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Hours 1
Monday9am-7:45pm
Tuesday9am-7:45pm
Wednesday9am-7:45pm
Thursday9am-7:45pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9:30am-12pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #7 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#22of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
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