Using Technology to Transform Support to Litigants in Person
Grant: £50,000
November 10, 2015
The aim is to better serve LIPs by further investing in PSU's legal education support and knowledge management systems, while fully establishing dynamic IT systems to support its rapidly expanding service.
Project plans to,
The project will achieve these aims by:
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
User of Advice Organisations | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Immigration & Asylum Partnership Project
Grant: £7,363
November 10, 2015
The aim of project is to provide individuals across North Wales, access to independent legal advice on all categories of law relating to immigration & asylum seekers. It is intended that such advice will be delivered through the medium of video conferencing at CAB Cylch Conwy & Wrexham District Citizens Advice offices. The video conference legal advice partnership will be delivered by Jackson Canter through their offices in Liverpool and Manchester.
The grant is to provide the video conferencing equipment required within two Citizens Advice Bureau offices in North Wales, Llandudno & Wrexham, and is required to deliver a pilot face to face advice service via video conferencing.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
User of Advice Organisations | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
The Asylum Guides Project
Grant: £148,638
November 10, 2015
The Project will empower people claiming asylum in North West England to engage meaningfully with the asylum process by providing them with legal literacy on the UK asylum system.
Highly skilled volunteer Asylum Guides, located in organisations trusted by the client group, will provide people seeking asylum with a legal literacy programme. They will meet their clients in person at key stages in their journey through the asylum process to understand and prepare for their interactions with the Home Office - from arrival until their case is concluded.
Exhausted by the asylum seeking experience, and ill-prepared to navigate the process alone, this staged, relational legal literacy approach will engage this population to feel more engaged with their claim and have a better understanding of what is happening at each stage of the process. Moreover, the Solihull Early Advice Pilot showed, they are more likely to accept the outcome of their asylum claim if they have had the process explained to them and are able to participate in the decision making with the support of a trained advisor.
Asylum Guides will be trained using digital educational tools thus ensuring that this is an accessible, scalable public law educational model.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
User of Advice Organisations | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Building Legal Capability Of Pregnant Women At Work
Grant: £57,300
November 10, 2015
The project will produce four short videos guiding pregnant women and new mothers through the processes they need to follow to resolve disputes about management of sickness at work and will also scope use of apps to deliver maternity rights information.
Pregnancy discrimination, including poor management of sickness, is widespread. Government research found that 11% of pregnant women lose their jobs because of discrimination. Only 8% of these women take formal action (pursue a grievance, seek advice, employment tribunal claim).
The videos will guide low income women through informal meetings with their employers and the formal grievance process, complementing Maternity Action's widely used online information. The videos will be informed by focus groups with low income women and input from unions, and will be piloted with women prior to release to test efficacy. The videos will be fully evaluated and the learning will inform future projects to build legal capability.
Discussions have been held with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about joint work to deliver maternity rights information through apps and the project will also scope this work, producing a detailed proposal.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
User of Advice Organisations | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Get Legal Small Charity Overlay
Grant: £71,500
November 10, 2015
BWB has just soft launched a new On-Line service “BWB Get Legal” (getlegal.bwbllp.com) aimed at the charity sector, which produces bespoke legal and policy documents in response to the user answering document specific questions.
This project is to fund an overlay on BWB Get Legal to meet the specific needs of the smaller charities – where they do not even know what they need - and provide a seamless and very low cost method of meeting those small charity legal needs.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Free Online Legal Health Check Self-Assessment For NGOs
Grant: £19,600
November 10, 2015
This project gives NGOs a free, easy-to-use online tool to assess their legal needs, resulting in a report that they can work through with lawyers over time, whether on a fee-paying or pro bono basis. This will help NGOs to use lawyers more effectively and efficiently, being clear about exactly what they need to address and preventing costly disputes from arising by identifying the gaps in their standard operations and programmes.
It will also generate a body of knowledge about the needs and challenges of NGOs, creating the evidence required to generate policy and legislative reform.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Management of Mediation Online (MoMO)
Grant: £10,000
November 10, 2015
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
General Public | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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