Volunteering opportunity
IIR are keen to set up a pro bono legal advice clinic to support their service users access essential legal advice. Many of the individuals they support face systemic and personal barriers to accessing justice, often due to immigration status, financial hardship, language barriers, or a lack of understanding of their legal rights. A pro bono legal clinic is critical to helping them access timely legal advice in a trusted and culturally competent environment.
IIR are looking for volunteer solicitors with expertise in the following areas to support their pro bono clinic:
- Housing issues (e.g. homelessness, unsafe housing)
- Employment disputes (e.g. unfair dismissal, harassment, discrimination)
- Immigration difficulties (e.g. visa issues, asylum claims)
- Domestic violence and coercive control
- Human rights violations, particularly affecting marginalised Nigerian communities (including police mistreatment, access to services, etc.)
IIR aim to run the clinic twice per month, with flexibility based on solicitor availability. The service provided will primarily be one-off, initial verbal legal advice with appointments lasting 45 minutes. All appointments held online via Google Meet and pre-booked. Solicitors will be provided with client information in advance and member of IIR staff will be present during the appointment along with the client.
Person specification
Solicitors with a current practicing certificate with expertise in one of the areas of law listed above.
Solicitors advising in the clinic will need to be covered by their firms’ Professional Indemnity Insurance.
Next steps
If you would be interested in supporting Injustice is Real with their pro bono clinic, please contact Rebecca Howell, Head of Clinics Programme at LawWorks for an informal conversation about the opportunity: rebecca.howell@lawworks.org.uk