One of the services that Citizens Advice Braintree and South Essex provides to local residents is one-off, initial legal advice through their pro bono legal advice clinic. The clinic take place remotely via telephone and currently covers family, housing and contested wills, trusts and estates. Clients must live or work within the council areas of: Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Rochford, Thurrock, Braintree.
Established in 2021, The LGBTQ+ Law Clinic is one of the only services in the United Kingdom that provides free legal advice to the LGBTQ+ community.
With help from volunteer lawyers and law firms, the clinic has been able to provide many of the most vulnerable in society with professional legal advice and representation on areas such as immigration, employment, housing (please note that this is devolved in Wales), discrimination, gender recognition and defamation.
