St James
St James' Church

St James’ Church free Legal Advice Centre in north London (Muswell Hill and Wood Green) has been a vital lifeline to so many local residents since it was founded by Peter Thompson QC over 20 years ago.

As years of Government cuts to legal aid have made it ever harder for people to access justice, their services are more in demand than ever.  But they urgently need more legally trained volunteers to keep running their Tuesday morning clinics.

Find out more below and contact Clare directly if you can help:

St James Legal Advice Centre – Legal Advisers needed

During the past 20+ years our clinics have helped thousands of people with their justice problems – housing, consumer rights, benefits claims, family issues, employment rights. Legal aid is now rarely available for these types of issues and so SJLAC’s work is vital in helping to address this ‘justice gap’.

We now urgently need more legal advisers for our Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon clinics. We’re looking for legal professionals (possibly retired or on a career break) who could give half a day a fortnight to provide advice. No experience in these areas of law is necessary or expected. Current advisers had no experience in these areas before they started volunteering. We provide training, support and oversight to ensure that volunteer legal advisers are confident before they start giving advice on their own. Of course, if you do have expertise in relevant areas of law – that would be very welcome. You’d be part of a great team, including a wonderful group of students from Middlesex University who provide reception, triage, research backup at the clinics.

As things stand, we no longer have enough advisers to run both our well-attended Tuesday and Wednesday clinics, and unless we can recruit more advisers, the Tuesday clinic will have to close.

If you have legal expertise, and some time, please consider volunteering with us. Please contact Clare Manuel [email protected] or 07940824405 if you might be interested. And do feel free to circulate this email as widely as you can to your networks. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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