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

• “We couldn’t have done it without Hackney Community Law Centre”
  A mother and her disabled son are spared deportation after nine year legal battle.
• Peers concerned about legal aid cuts and their impact on Law Centres
  The House of Lords debated yesterday (31st January 2012) the implications of planned legal aid cuts for Law Centres, following an oral question by Lord Bach
• Speak up against hatred and discrimination, urges Chesterfield Law Centre
  The Law Centre organised Chesterfield's local Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration event
• 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)