Pro bono makes an important contribution towards enabling access to justice and LawWorks has a crucial role in supporting and facilitating its development across the solicitor’s profession and...
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27/07/2017 - 5:50pm
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In June, we published the first phase of changes we want to make to the Handbook to create shorter, clearer principles and codes, and simpler Accounts Rules. We began the process of changing how we...
27/07/2017 - 6:11pm -
Organised by the London Legal Support Trust, 700 teams walked together and raised £800,000 to promote access to justice. Lawyers from all corners of the legal profession came together to raise...
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Online courts: a potted history to date In March 2014, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced a radical courts reform plan for 2015 to 2020. In February 2015 the Civil Justice Council (CJC) set out...
28/07/2017 - 9:45am -
After the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June it was clear that North Kensington Law Centre (NKLC) – less than 300m from the Tower – would be inundated with requests for help from...
28/07/2017 - 10:35am -
The outgoing President of the Law Society Robert Bourns said: "Those affected by this terrible attack will be dealing with enormous personal distress - physical, emotional or otherwise. That...
28/07/2017 - 10:59am -
All work in the UK's economy should be "fair and decent", a government review of employment practices has said, and has quoted LawWorks to make the case for improving employment rights...
28/07/2017 - 11:22am -
The scale of pro bono work being done by the profession up and down the country is remarkable. From our own work, we’re celebrating an increase in the number of organisations that have been...
28/07/2017 - 11:59am -
Suffolk is a beautiful green rural county, but it is also an advice desert with hidden areas of deprivation and poor infrastructure. We are one of the few counties with no local housing legal aid...
28/07/2017 - 12:35pm -
Regions University of Worcester - The University of Worcester established a new Law School in 2016. Working with local solicitors, and supported by students from the Law school, the clinic...
28/07/2017 - 12:44pm