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.

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Law Centre news

• Law Centres Federation welcomes new partnership for Law Centres
  The Law Centres Federation (LCF) today welcomed Lord Bach’s announcement of a new pilot which will help to strengthen all Law Centres’ ability to assist vulnerable people.
• Families reunited after Kingston and Richmond Law Centre’s Supreme Court win
  Supreme Court victory will have far-reaching effects for people settled in the UK who hope to bring dependent family members from overseas to live with them.
• LCF and other organisations call for Justice to be put centre stage in the General Election Campaign
  The broad and influential coalition of eight leading legal and campaigning organisations calls on politicians to put justice centre stage in the forthcoming General Election campaign.
• Devon Law Centre awarded the Law Centres Innovation Award 2009 for the Asylum Appellate Project
  The project aims to show that reform of the legal aid system is needed for asylum seekers to get access to justice.