Developing an Online Tool to Assess the Eligibility of Destitute Families
Grant: £58,000
November 10, 2015
A project to develop an interactive online tool which would allow advisors and service-providers in the voluntary and public sectors to assess the eligibility of destitute migrant children and families for local authority support under s17 Children Act, where they lack expert knowledge on that area of law.
The accessibility of the tool, housed on the NRPF Network site and tailored to take account of minor variations in law in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will empower voluntary sector agencies to advocate on behalf of eligible families. It will also ensure that local authority staff have an authoritative tool that enables them to make an informed initial response, reducing the likelihood of rejection of applications prior to formal assessment.
The tool will provide a printout the advisor can use when approaching a local authority. Inserting a post-code will provide relevant contact details.
The project will increase the prospect of eligible families securing s17 support while reducing potential for ill-advised applications. Further, it will serve as a pilot for establishing the potential for a technological solution of this kind to enhance access to rights in geographical areas and sectors where specialist legal knowledge is not readily available.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Defamation Law for Advocacy NGOs – Online Training and Self-Assessment Guide
Grant: £21,250
November 10, 2015
This project gives advocacy and campaigning NGOs free online tools to understand English defamation law so they can check the vast majority of their publications for defamation risks themselves, saving paid-for and pro bono legal services for specific, more technical points.
The training and self-assessment tool will be developed by A4ID in partnership with leading defamation barristers and in consultation with relevant NGOs, so that they are legally correct but also engaging and user-friendly.
This will mean that NGOs acting in the public interest to expose serious misconduct will be able to do so responsibly and without jeopardising the work of their organisations.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Management of Mediation Online (MoMO)
Grant: £10,000
November 10, 2015
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Knowledge Bank and Website
Grant: £40,000
November 10, 2015
The project is to develop and improve the LinC website as a digital resource for the existing group of charities so that subject experts can share practical guidance and information on key areas of law that are relevant to charities. A Professional Support Lawyer will:
The Project will create a unique legal resource providing relevant and risk-based guidance on key areas of the law, as well as template policies and documents relating to governance and charity management, to non-specialist or generalist lawyers working in a wide range of charities.
A feasibility study into potential sources of future funding for the website e.g. the charging of a membership fee based on the improvement and enhanced value of the website to members will be undertaken.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Law Centre Training Programme 2016
Grant: £30,210
November 10, 2015
This is year 2 of a three year project to establish a self-financing and on-going training programme for Law Centres and other specialist legal organisations.
The purpose of the training programme is to update and extend the skills and practice of Law Centre staff and in so doing, ensure an expert free legal service is available to vulnerable people in the areas of law that affect their daily lives. Training will cover areas of law, practice management and organisational management. Training will be developed collaboratively with Law Centres, in response to requests for particular training and in many cases using the expertise within Law Centres.
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StartEd
Grant: £25,000
November 10, 2015
StartEd is an innovative project that provides law students with unique new skills and “commercial awareness” to adequately equip them for jobs of the future. It brings together leading law firms, fast growth small business and LPC law students so that law students can learn about real world practical issues faced by new businesses and entrepreneurs.
The project has been pioneering in this space, as acknowledged previously by the UK Intellectual Property Office and Praxis Unico. It is now the largest start up law group in the UK - and run purely pro bono by student volunteers with law faculty support.
The Legal Education Foundation previously funded an expansion of this project at Liverpool John Moores University. Using the deliverables and best practices developed, it is now planned to expand this project further to 2 UK LPC universities; and build a sustainable model for future growth.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Advancing the JUSTICE Student Network
Grant: £20,000
November 10, 2015
Advancing the JUSTICE Student Network (JSN) will build upon the initial success of developing the JUSTICE Student Human Rights Network microsite and increased engagement with the student community. While much of initial objectives of the project (supported by the LEF) have been achieved there is still much to develop.
This project is multi-faceted in its objectives, intending to equip students with a practical understanding of how lawyers can work to strengthen the justice system and the rights of individuals within it. It is also designed to encourage contact between students and practitioners. This experience cannot be obtained from normal academic or vocational programmes. By drawing upon our unique history, experience and membership, a comprehensive JSN website will make a valuable contribution to legal education.
The site will contain a selection of unique resources designed to support academic legal education and to encourage interest in public interest law. Additionally, a key aspect of this project is the hiring of a JSN Fellow to carry out the work. The fellow will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the JSN, organising events, liaising with students and practitioners and coordinating the new ‘A Day in the Life of Justice’ initiative.
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Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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Explore and Develop Potential Models for Public Law Specialist Support with University Law Clinics
Grant: £30,470
November 10, 2015
PLP will explore and develop potential models for public law specialist support with university law clinics. There is project commitment at four university law clinics with varying degrees of public law awareness and capacity: The clinics are at Huddersfield, Liverpool, Cardiff and Kent universities. Each institution is interested in developing the capacity of their clinics (and the pro bono sector more generally) to identify and progress public law issues, whether internally or by informed referral. The clinics capacities vary from provision of grassroots advice across a wide range of areas including those which will frequently engage public law issues, to one providing advice and legal representation that often involves public law and judicial review work, to one running a project creating public law toolkits for the general public and/or carers and advisers.
PLP's expertise and experience will be applied in project development, practical training, specialist support and the conduct of casework to the development of potential joint working approaches with clinics. They will bring expertise in extensive projects, education, clinical advice provision, IT innovation and research.
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Related Research | ||
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BHT Pro Bono
Grant: £10,000
November 10, 2015
BHT Pro Bono is a collaborative clinical law project initiated between Brighton Housing Trust (‘BHT’) and Sussex University's Law Department, where law students are placed at BHT's Legal Advice Centre in central Brighton, to gain experience in housing and legal aid advice provision. The aim of this project is to develop a digital advice unit.
The assistance the students can give will not only be in the traditional form of face-to-face, over the counter client-based work, but also delivered through an online portal currently being developed by BHT, part of the ‘Advice Brighton and Hove’ technology strategy ‘Digital Inclusion’.
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The LEDLET Summer Scheme 2016
Grant: £6,500
November 10, 2015
In July every year, LEDLET invites ten lower-sixth-form students from across Wales to spend a week in legal London undertaking legal work experience and receiving careers advice. Students are selected according to merit and means, with priority given to those from particularly underprivileged backgrounds and disadvantaged areas. Lower-sixth-form students are targeted with a view to influencing their selection of universities and degree courses in advance of the oncoming autumn term and UCAS applications.
Each student spends a day with a barrister, a day with a solicitor and a day sitting with a judge at the Old Bailey. On their last morning, they receive guidance on university applications from admissions tutors at University College London. In the evening they meet Welsh law students and lawyers, and participate in moots and educational events e.g. a seminar with the Chairman of the Law Commission, and lectures at law firms.
The entirety of their travel, meals and accommodation is funded by LEDLET. Bursaries are made available to those who do not own a suit and cannot afford to buy their own.
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Less Advantaged Backgrounds | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
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