Initial written legal advice specialising in non-urgent employment, family law and related issues such as housing.

Law students under supervision offer advice, any necessary legal assistance and representation to all those who cannot a lawyer or legal aid.

Amicus are a charity that assist with death reprieve cases. Students have the opportunity to be trained and subsequently involved in these cases.

Also launched this year this is completely different to the previous project, law mentoring – which demonstrates the wide ranging and diverse projects we have and the groups of people we help. Amicus is a charity which provides free legal representation for US prisoners on death row using volunteers.

 The King's branch of the Amicus project consists of 11 students

-  Who have been trained to carry out legal research?

- contribute to the cases Amicus deals with, for example, by consolidating witness statements.

- They spent two weekends training to become a volunteer, one theory weekend and one practical weekend, and this training has enabled them to contribute to

A death-row case, the outcome of which has not yet been reached but Amicus has completed their involvement in the case now and the client has been appointed with a US firm to represent them –

 The king’s students contributed around 5% to the final project which has enabled the US firm to have a head start on identifying the issues for appeal. Their assignments related to the motions during the trial and this was the most difficult part of the case.

“This project is not about flooding the UK with migrants. It recognizes that not all asylum seekers are genuine, but it also finds that a large number of genuine asylum seekers are compromised due to fallacies in the system.”

Working with local chambers students are attending extended mini pupillages on the basis of one day a week. The aim is to encourage more students to the bar.

A face-to-face employment advice clinic for employees by appointment.

 A service giving employees advice by telephone on employment law issues.

Assisting the community and increasing student awareness of IP law.

Students interview and advise clients.

Law students interview and advise clients on range of legal issues.

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Students sit in on advice giving interviews with client and volunteer solicitor, and then write to client confirming advice given.

“Helps provide support, advice and assistance to new and vulnerable communities in Coventry.”

Volunteers train at a local CAB office as a gateway assessor.

Volunteers assist the full-time discrimination caseworker with their Equality Act 2010 caseload.

Volunteers can expect to gain experience in all areas of discrimination law (education, employment and services), as well as general employment law. 

Students undertake placements within local firms.

Student volunteers assist qualified staff in providing legal advice at designated sessions of CommuniCare, a local advice-giving agency.

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.

Undergraduates from the School of Law and Leeds University Business School work alongside Leeds Cares Business in the Community to assist in local community projects.

The County Court Advice Desk on Housing operates at Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court, offering representation by duty solicitors to unrepresented defendants in need of legal representation who are at risk of losing possession of their homes. BPP students assist with the running of the Advice Desk.  BPP students act as ‘runners’ liaising between the solicitor, usher, defendant, and the claimant’s representative.  They take part on a rota basis.

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

“A unique opportunity for hands-on exposure to legal work in the United States of America, encompassing diverse areas of criminal justice and human rights.”

Legal advice given to University of Southampton students concerning employment law issues. This is supported by barristers from 12 College Place Chambers. 

Employment law advice offered over the telephone.

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.

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

The Essex University Legal Centre provides free initial legal advice to members of the public, students and University staff. The Centre aims to benefit the local community as well as giving law students the opportunity to develop legal skills.

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.

The Innocence Project provides students with the unique and exciting opportunity to investigate cases of suspected wrongful convictions where a prisoner has exhausted the initial appeals process.

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

The Legal Advice Centre and East Manchester Legal Advice Centre aim to offer a reliable service to those with legal and associated difficulties and to provide practical experience for law students who are supervised by legal practitioners.

The Free Legal Advice Centre is open to the public on Monday evenings and sees clients by appointment.  The Centre operates a written advice-only service during term time. All students are supervised by a qualified solicitor, but have full control over their cases. The areas where we offer advice include family law, employment law, housing law, debt, dispute, consumer law and contract law. 

The Birmingham Free Legal Advice Group (Birmingham FLAG) offers free legal assistance to members of the public.

Need legal advice? Drop into WLV, the University's new shop in the Mander Centre, and speak to some of our law graduates training to become solicitors.

Under the supervision of Senior Partners from Talbot Solicitors, students can offer advice on a wide range of every day legal matters. The clinic is completely free and available on a drop-in basis on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The students are law graduates studying the vocational stage of training for solicitors, the Legal Practice Course. The practical experience will help the students develop essential client care skills for a career practicing law.

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.

Nottingham FRU is a branch of the London-based charity Free Representation Unit and provides representation to clients in the Employment Tribunal.

The Glasgow Caledonian University Innocence Project (GCU-IP) is the first dedicated student-led Innocence Project in Scotland, a pro bono legal clinic which teaches law through exposure to 'live-clients'.

Students advise clients under the supervision of supervising law firms. Advice is provided in areas of law such as employment, landlord and tenant disputes, freehold and leasehold issues, personal injury, contracts, consumer and transactions.

Students conduct telephone interviews with clients and sit in on advice sessions conducted by volunteer solicitors at weekly clinics.

Students shadow volunteer lawyers advising clients at this weekly free drop in session.

 This is a legal advice clinic for all University of Southampton students who need help in dealing with landlord/tenant disputes or other housing legal problems.

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

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

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

BPP students work with volunteer lawyers on the London version of the "Manuel Bravo" project, assisting asylum seekers in the local area with their appeals. This assistance includes conducting country research, reviewing documentation, preparing appeal bundles and providing support during the interview process.  The students are not giving advice.

Run at a central Glasgow library, our Initial Advice Centre (IAC) Project allows members of the public to drop in and get advice on the spot from a volunteer solicitor.

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

Students examine cases of possible miscarriages of justice.

Member project of the Innocence UK network www.innocencenetwork.org.uk running pro bono work for prisoners maintaining their innocence.

UoLIP is an educational project promoting enterprise skills for undergraduate students, through investigative work into real cases where wrongful convictions are suspected.

Students write letters of advice in response to general IP queries.

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.

Intellectual Property advice provided to individuals and charities.

Students shadow judges as they go about their daily business.

Based at the law school the advice centre provides assistance to the local community on a range of issues.

The Law Clinic provides over 140 students with the opportunity to put their legal knowledge into practice every year. Members recieve training by Burges Salmon LLP (a leading local law firm) and continued support throughout their membership.

Free initial advice and assistance on any legal issue.The clinic is run by undergarduate and postgraduate students under the supervision of solicitor qualified staff and support from local practitioners who volunteer to help supervise the students during the clinic sessions. In addition students have the benefit of mentoring support from the pro bono team at Irwin Mitchell solicitors.

The clinic is open to staff and students of Dmu -a client base of some 20,000

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

Legal advice for the creative industries. Specialised focus on intellectual property.

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

Students work alongside solicitors from local firms to provide a free legal service. This service is available to students and other members of the local community.

Law students interview and draft letters of advice to members of the public on a range of legal issues under the supervision of a qualified solicitor.

Nottingham Law School's Legal Advice Clinic provides a free initial advice, represntation and referral service to the local community.

Law students, supervised by qualified lawyers, offer advice and assistance on a number of areas of law.

The LSBU Legal Advice Clinic is a free public drop-in advice service staffed by LSBU law students working under the supervsion of practisng solicitors.

The Clinic provides:

• Basic information on any topic
• Generalist advice in any social welfare law matters (except immigration)
• Specialist legal advice in family, housing, employment and personal injury at Thursday evening sessions (accessible via an initial assessment our daytime drop -in). 

Students assist solicitors at a legal advice clinic at a local centre for the homeless.

family law Legal Advice Clinic at a local organisation who offer support for women and children experiencing domestic violence and abuse

Students interview clients, take instructions, open a file, research the law and write a letter of advice.  They are supervised by qualified solicitors.

Around 25 students are selected to participate in three legal advice clinics around London by taking minutes during client meetings, undertaking follow-up researches and drafting documents. This opportunity is supervised by the Academic-in-charge of Pro Bono, Dr. Braithwaite (J.P.Braithwaite@lse.ac.uk).

The KCL Legal Clinic is a new probono scheme run by students, aimed at supporting the legal needs of all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

We currently have 10 advisers trained in collaboration with Speechly Bircham -

- The clinic can help with a wide variety of legal issues such as: -Dispute Resolution-Entrepreneurial Services (i.e. supporting new business start-ups with contracts, IP rights etc-Property (tenants and leases)-Consumer Standards-Employment.

 – The advisers work alongside qualified solicitors

- The advice will be provided on a pro bono basis.

As the project is our newest – it is still its first stages but it already very popular and a number of students have made appointments. the aim within a couple of years to eventually open the clinic to the general public – which with the rapid expansion and popularity of the probono soc- will probably happen sooner than we think!

The Liverpool Law Clinic is a pro bono legal advice centre.

Legal advice is provided through the Clinic by Law School students under the supervision of professionally qualified legal practitioners from the North West.

Market Law is a new project which assist local market traders with issues raised against local councils in the administration of legislations.

The clinic is run with Mayer Brown and LawWorks. We assist with determining whether a dispute is suitable to go for mediation, rather than the court.

The Society runs an internal negotiation competition for Law students.

Intellectual property project

Oxford law students assist local solicitors with fixed-fee legal aid cases by interviewing clients  and drafting client statements, enabling the solicitors to focus on the legal aspects of the case.

Pro bono opportunity available to students

Law specifically aimed at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community.

COLETA for employment advice over the phone

The Law School offers an assessed Level 3 Pro 25 credit Bono module to single honours LLB students. Students are required to undertake 50 hours volunteering and complete a research project, work diary and deliver an oral presentation.

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

Free advice for local small businesses, provided by Legal Practice Course students under the supervision of local solicitors. One hour appointments are available. Initial advice can be given on a range of issues including incorporation as a company, terms and conditions of trading and intellectual property.

The 'South West Employment Rights Centre' (SWERC) is an organisation offering free advice and representation to employees (primarily those who are socially deprived).

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

The AIM of Streetlaw enables law students to help the local community, passing on their knowledge of legal issues in a format that is both relevant and interesting to young people –

The students give presentations to many different types of groups around London on issues such as knife crime, the EU, drugs issues, human rights.

the main group we present to ARE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

SIXTH FORM COLLEGES – mostly as the students are currently studying a-level law and this would complement their revision.

we have given a number of presentations to HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS

And we have recently gained clearance to work at BAIL HOSTELS in often challenging circumstances.

It is run in association with the City Law Firm Addleshaw Goddard.

statistics -

when probono first began, we had 88 Streetlaw volunteers –

in the 2009/2010 academic year we currently have 130 volunteers –

This is almost a 50% INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP and demonstrates the increase in knowledge amongst the student community A) that probono work can develop you existing skills and B) the enthusiasm and willingness amongst students to help others in the community.

Around 29 presentations from November 2009-to present day – and audiences vary from 10-100 people – so Streetlaw has presented to over 870 people in 5 months.

In conjunction with Mayer Brown we go to Morpeth School in Bethnal Green to discuss and highlight relevant areas of law to students there.

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.

Legal literacy programme, educating the public about the law so that they may help themselves.

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

BPP's Cambridge Law School opened in September 2011 and currently offers the Legal Practice Course to both full and part-time students.  Our aim is to offer as wide a choice of pro bono activities to the Cambridge students as possible and to establish good links within the Cambridge community.  The pro bono projects we currently offer are the Streetlaw project (principally Streetlaw Youth Groups, Schools and Homeless), the Employment Law Telephone Advice Line and the students also have the opportunity to be involved with projects such as the Liberty Letters clinic, the Tribunal Friends project and the Enivornmental Pro Bono Group.

Students giving advice to the public on matters of law for free

Students on the LLB are able to volunteer at the nearby Community Law Centre and become involved in case work and advice giving. Current first year students are undertaking a project to produce accessible information for other students.

The Student Law Office is a pro bono legal advice centre, where law students run the cases under the supervision of qualified lawyers from the Law School staff.

A unique collaboration between Law students, from  both Bristol Law School (UWE) and the University of Bristol Law Faculty, the Bristol CAB and the Barristers of the Western Circuit to provide the highest quality pro-bono service.

The chance to work with Disability Cambridge, assisting in meetings, experiencing case-work and performing administrative duties.

The INUK was launched in September 2004 because the problem of the wrongful conviction of innocent people was not sufficiently resolved by the creation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the body set up in the wake of notorious cases.

The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

Innocence Projects like ours operate at more than 20 universities in the UK at the time of writing. Our Innocence Project, like the others, is an extra-curricula pro bono legal clinic that works on real cases of prisoners maintaining innocence.

Providing adminstrative and emotional support to unrepresented litigants in the Employment Tribunal.  Student volunteers gain first hand experience of the Tribunal process and develop key client handling skills.

This opportunity takes our legal advice centre to three locations on the Wirral.

It works the same as our legal advice centre apart from the initial client interview takes place at an external centre.

The Law School Clinic is a fully integrated part of the undergraduate and postgraduate Law programmes. It consists of a generic legal advice centre open to members of the public and has 5 additional specialisms: tribunal representation; small business support (with particular emphasis on social enterprises); placements (long-term commitment to working with not for profit groups); Streetlaw; and, a law reform advice and submission service.