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An opportunity to train as a Gateway Advisor for the Bristol Citizens Advice Bureau.

In house training as a generalist CAB advisor, leading to the CAB's advisor Certificate.

Students are able to complete the full generalist CAB training in their second year at Portsmouth and then work at least 120 hours during their final year. These students are then eligible for Associate status of the Institute of ParaLegals.

Students undertake placements within local firms.

In today’s society, access to legal aid is extremely limited, whilst advice needs are rapidly increasing. This creates a void in legal services, particularly in areas such as welfare, debt and housing. The Community Legal Helpdesk aims to address some of this unmet legal need and to provide a starting point for people who don’t know where to go for legal help and advice.

“Offering a vast array of opportunities to assist refugees & asylum seekers in Coventry.”

Students run two telephone lines, one for ex offenders and one for referrals from CABs and Law Clinics.

Promotes students' understanding of the legal aspects of environmental issues.

European Law Monitor is a non-political, not-for-profit, information service that aims to provide citizens and organisations across Europe with the ability to find and track new EU proposals, and to make it easier for interested parties to express their views to European legislators during the legislative process. The School of Law has a number of students assisting with reserach and information at this project.

Students are able to train and work with a range of external agencies including Trading Standards, Portsmouth Mediation Service and as Special Constables.

In partnership with Bristol CAB we offer members of the public an opportunity to obtain basic independent legal advice on their family law problems.  

Established in 2000, the School of Law's Legal Advice Centre aims to offer a reliable service to those with legal and associated difficulties and to provide practical experience for the School's law students who are supervised by legal practitione

A Level 6 optional module on the LL.B. degree course. Students on placement (mostly with pro-bono advice organisations) gain and are assessed on practical lawyering skills and on the ability to reflect on their learning experiences.

The Human Rights Unit includes a variety of student human rights initiatives. 

The Human Rights Unit includes a variety of student human rights initiatives. 

Researching miscarriges of Justice as part of the Innocence Network UK.

Law students investigate cases of convicted persons who maintain innocence but have exhausted the initial appeals process.

The Group's aims are to promote interested students' understanding of the field of intellectual property law whilst facilitating IP lawyers' provision of pro bono services to the community.

In this project, the Pro Bono Centre teams our law students with law firms to assist solicitors with their pro bono assignments.

Law students volunteer in variety of law-based agencies including the Citizens Advice Bureau, Community Law Service, Victim Support and as Independent Custody Visitors

law mentoring

aim – Informing high school students of what law, in reality, is like in terms of studying and practicing it

We currently have 60 volunteers who go into schools and colleges and hold presentations and then have an interactive – Q and A session at the end.

so mentors talk to students about –

ucas system

What law entails – workload, social life, and job prospects?

Go through A – level past papers with them.

one on one law mentoring

This is a new project set up this year – it is very closely associated with law mentoring but with one key difference – it involves pairing a KCL student with an AS or A Level Law student at Kingsbury high school. The mentor helps his/her buddy with any academic issues they have and may also discuss options for the future, such as university

we currently have 12 one to one law mentors and this will increase in the next year  - they make weekly visits to Kingsbury high school and alongside giving general advice and acting as a source of support or advice, the mentors do past a level law papers with them and guide them through the ucas process –

Teams of two students interview clients at our partner Charities premises.  Then working under the supervision of a Solicitor, they manage their client's file; research the legal issue and prepare a letter of advice. 

A pioneering initiative in which law students trained in mediation provide free support to otherwise unrepresented parties to mediation.

First year students are given the opportunity to train as mediators with the organisation Resolve.

Working with victims of domestic violence to gain injunctions against their abusers.

Students attend the Refugee Forum, which provides free advice, guidance and support to refugees and asylum seekers.

Intellectual property project

A team of our Bar course students work as volunteers in the Personal Support Unit at the Royal Courts of Justice and Principal Registry of the Family Division.

Research legal queries for our partner organisations and Charities. 

Students provide representation for parents of children permanently excluded from schools.

A new project for 2010/2011. Please contact the coordinator for up to date details.

The Streetlaw project promotes education about the law, democracy and human rights to citizens who would not otherwise have access to legal knowledge or education.

The Streetlaw project involves students going to local schools to bring aspects of law and the legal system into the community through group sessions, presentations and debating competitions.

StreetLaw is a student-led scheme which involves LSE students going to local schools and explaining legal issues to the students in order to raise awareness of their rights. For more information, please contact Student leader of StreetLaw: Ayesha Noorani (A.Noorani@lse.ac.uk)

The Streetlaw project promotes education about the law, democracy and human rights to citizens who would not otherwise have access to legal knowledge or education.

All undergraduate students can chose the volunteering module. They will undertake a voluntary placement. Many students chose to voulnteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau.