Program Overview

Program Overview

The Lawyers Against Poverty refugee workshops is an initiative that aims to educate and empower refugees by helping them to better understand the UK civil and criminal justice systems and their rights whilst living in the UK.

Program Details

Law students can deliver Legal Confidence Sessions as part of this project. In delivering this project, student volunteers work with solicitors from the local legal community and refugee support workers to run workshops on legal rights.

Collaborations

The School of Law is running this initiative in collaboration with:

• Lawyers Against Poverty
• The Diocese
• Barlow Robbins
• Majorlaw
• JLS Solicitors
• TWM Solicitors

Program Objective

The objective of the program is to provide refugees with a better understanding of the UK justice system and their rights, through the delivery of Legal Confidence Sessions.