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.

“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.”

Students advise a client detained by the Immigration Service on a bail application.

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

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

An advice and representation service.

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 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.

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.

“Aims to assist attorneys with their work on capital cases. It allows students in the UK the opportunity to remotely participate in assignments, that those who intern with US attorneys may carry out.

“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.

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.

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

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

The Free Legal Advice Centre is open 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 solicitor or advocate, 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. 

Free legal advice Clinic for current staff and students at the University of Leicester.

GDL and LPC students supervised by local practicing solcitors are able to offer first point free legal advice to students of Swansea University.

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

This joint project between Herabans Kaur and the Law Society Pro Bono Secretary provides students with the opportunity to help to raise funds for a variety of local and national causes.

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.

 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 led human rights initiatives through which our students provide support to various human rights organisations.

Fighting for Justice!

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

Students examine cases of possible miscarriages of justice.

The Innocence Project was set up in 2007 and is an opportunity for University of Sheffield law students to investigate cases of convicted people maintaining their innocence, who have exhausted the initial appeals process.

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

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

This is a new project we are hoping to run next year under KCLprobono – it will be our 8 Th new project.  It is in the initial stages of set –up now, but will probably be in place by September in order to expand KCL Pro Bono even further.

Its aim is to undertake full investigations into alleged cases of wrongful conviction that meet the eligibility criteria, seeking to overturn convictions given to factually innocent people.

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.

The Independent Panel for Special Educational Advice (IPSEA) is a registered charity offering free and independent advice to parents of children with special educational needs.

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

We offer an advice service following referral of a Land Registry application to its Adjudicator Service. The Land Registry includes our leaflet in its referral package. Disputes can cover issues such as adverse possession, easements and rights of way, and beneficial ownership.

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

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

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 –

The Student Law Clinic at Dundee University is a new initiative which opened its doors on 31 January 2011 in the first of two main phases of activity. The initial focus is on advice-giving, building towards offering a representation service in due course.

About the Legal Advice Centre

The Centre is staffed by Law students under the supervision of qualified staff.  All Student Advisers are Final year Law students professionally trained to provide help with a range of issues, including:

• Consumer Rights
• Debt
• Employment issues
• Housing/Property
• Welfare Benefits

The Centre will be run in partnership with various organisations around Hull including the Citizens' Advice Bureau, Hull and East Riding Councils and the legal firms Hamers and Stamp Jackson Proctor.

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.

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

The University of Glamorgan's Law School has a number of students working as volunteer advisers at Citizens Advice Bureaux in South Wales, as well as one member of staff working as a specialist volunteer and others acting as  trustees of a local bureau. 

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 Society runs an internal negotiation competition for Law students.

A group of law post-graduate and Law Faculty members dedicated to the practice of public interest law on a pro bono basis.

This project provides our students with an opportunity to assist families whose children have not been allocated a place at their chosen school to appeal that decision and we also assist parents whose children have been permanently excluded from school to appeal that decision.

“Enlightening young minds and facilitating access to the legal profession for youths from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

Undergraduate students can act as ambassadors on the Pathways to Law programme.

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

Our Prison Outreach project is targeted at the families of those serving sentences in Durham prison, providing support intended to address some of the legal issues that will affect them. 

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).

From October 2008, the Law Clinic will commence a form of Street Law by advising incoming international students on their housing, consumer and employment rights via workshops and leaflets. We will also be running Consumer Workshops, designed to help those with a consumer issue resolve the dispute themselves and take them through writing letters, filling in the Small Claims Court form and advice for appearing.

Community project to raise awareness about your rights and issues to do with law.

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

Students provide legal education to local community groups.

Streetlaw offers students the opportunity to engage with the local community, perfect their legal research and presentation skills, and gain valuable experience in preparation for work in the legal profession.

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 promotes education about law, democracy and human rights to citizens who would not otherwise have access to legal education.

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

StreetLaw is a flexible concept that encompasses a wide range of issues. StreetLaw is intended to provide legal education on a range of pertinent issues in a manner in which is suited to the target audience.

Students research and present a workshop on legal topics to a variety of audiences.

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.

This scheme, which aims at enhancing students' communication, research and clinical legal skills, sees Lincoln Law School UG students (2nd and 3rd yr) taking their legal knowledge into local schools where they present and discuss legal topics such as human rights, police powers and civil liberties, crime, employment matters and consumer rights.

The coordinator of this pro bono scheme is Dr Samantha Velluti

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

The Student Law Office is a legal advice centre, where law students run the cases, under the supervision of qualified lawyers from the Law School staff. Usually, the service provided is a full legal service, along the lines of that provided b

Students interview clients over the telephone and volunteer solicitors give telephone advice one evening per week.  Advice lines exist for Employment and Personal Injury-related issues.

We attend Thames Magistrates Court to provide factual representation before the Magistrates for clients. We assist these clients on council tax matters and try to help them make sure that they are not imprisoned for failure to pay council tax.

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 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.

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.

Students working voluntarily under the supervision of our in-house solicitors provide advice and representation on a full range of welfare benefits and appeals. We only see clients by appointment, usually following a referral.

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.