Law Centres

There are 56 Law Centres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, staffed by solicitors and barristers who specialise in areas of civil law including employment, housing, discrimination, welfare benefits, education and immigration.

Law Centres are embedded in their communities and answer to committees of local people. They assist vulnerable people when they suffer injustice, educate people about their rights and tackle local problems.

In doing so, they transform people’s lives, helping them to stay in their homes, keep their families together and get into employment or education. Law Centres are members of the Law Centres Federation.

Legal aid cuts would mean no happy ending for this couple

Law Centre news

• Gloucester Law Centre highlights effects of legal aid cuts on local people
  In an article to local newspaper The Citizen, the Law Centre explains the issues at stake with the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill (LASPO)
• Camden Community Law Centre ‘horrified’ at Council funding cuts
  Last week Camden Council confirmed a 60% cut to the local Law Centre's funding, which will lead to loss of services
• “One law for the rich, another for the poor?”
  Harrow Law Centre speaks out against proposed cuts to legal aid for social welfare law advice.
• Avon and Bristol Law Centre wins landmark case at Social Security Upper Tribunal
  Firuta Vasile, a Romanian Big Issue seller, won the right to claim housing benefit after Judge ruled her work amounted to self-employment