Free & Pro Bono Legal Assistance
Pro bono representation and advice for eligible vulnerable individuals: pensioners, people with disabilities or chronic illness, people in prison, veterans and those facing severe debt or poverty.
Get help with thisHow we can help
A broad range of legal support, with a human first step.
Whether you need free advice, a specialist appeal team, or experienced counsel for an organisation, we will help you understand where you stand and what comes next.
Access to justice
Support that starts with your circumstances and gives you a clear next step.
Specialist Benefit Appeal Unit
Assessing your prospects of success and representing you through Mandatory Reconsideration applications, applications out of time, appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal, applications for leave to appeal and Upper-Tier Tribunals.
Get help with thisDebt & Insolvency Advice
Licensed by the Government's Money and Pensions Service to provide specialist debt advice, assist with debt write-offs, and help companies and individuals avoid or face insolvency.
Get help with thisCriminal Defence
24/7/365 police station call-out, magistrates court hearings, motoring law and traffic offences, prison law, fraud and severe criminal defence.
Get help with thisCivil, commercial & public work
Experienced advice for disputes, organisations and the decisions that shape them.
Civil & Commercial Litigation
Personal injury and medical law, actions against the police, contractual disputes, landlord and tenant, professional negligence, defamation and land and property disputes.
Get help with thisBusiness Reorganisation & Insolvency
We use the best practitioners from around the UK to restructure and save corporations from closure — saving businesses means saving jobs means saving futures. We also advise on valuations, mergers, shareholder disputes including unfair prejudice actions.
Get help with thisSpecialist Employment Law
Negotiating new contracts before you start, workplace disputes, discrimination and grievances, unfair dismissal, redundancy, and exit packages via settlement agreement.
Get help with thisCharity Law & Examination
Charity law advice, independent examination and forensic reports, compliance, and start-up or dismantling advice including dealing with the regulator.
Get help with thisPeople, resolution & expertise
Specialist support when a human, technical or independent perspective makes a difference.
Family, Wills & Probate
Children private and public law, child protection, domestic violence, matrimonial finance, inheritance act disputes, contested probate and estate management.
Get help with thisAlternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation, arbitration, early neutral evaluation, conciliation, ombudsman schemes and FDR valuations.
Get help with thisForensic Services & Expert Witnesses
Access to the right expert for your needs, from civil engineers and architects to forensic accountants, engineers and specialist educational psychologists.
Get help with thisPublic Speaking & Training
Keynote speakers, corporate trainers, lecturers, mentors and facilitators from academia and industry.
Get help with thisLegal expertise
Our range of legal expertise — this list is by no means exhaustive
Civil Law areas
- Actions Against The Police
- Commercial disputes and resolution
- Contractual Disputes
- Defamation
- Education law
- Employment
- Insolvency including Money and Debt Advice
- Land & Property Disputes
- Disputed Probate and estate disputes
- Landlord & Tenant
- Licensing
- Personal Injury
- Professional Conduct
- Professional Negligence
- Sports & Media
- Tax Tribunals
Criminal Law areas
- Bribery & Corruption
- Business Crime
- Confiscation
- Drug Offences
- Extradition
- Firearms
- Fraud
- Homicide
- International Criminal Law
- Magistrates court hearings
- Military Law
- Money Laundering
- Motoring law and traffic offences
- Prison Law
- Sexual Offences
- Theft & Dishonesty Offences
- Violent Crime
Family law areas
- Adoption
- Children Private Law
- Children Public Law
- Civil Partnerships
- Domestic Violence
- Education law
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Forced Marriage
- Inheritance Act Disputes
- International Child Abduction
- Judicial Review
- Matrimonial Finance
- Mediation
- TLATA & Cohabitation
Immigration and citizenship
- Administrative Review
- Appeals
- Article 8 ECHR
- Asylum
- Bail
- Business Immigration
- Citizenship Challenges
- Deportation
- Entry Clearance
- European (EEA) Law
- Family Reunion
- Fresh Claims
- Human Rights Claims
- Immigration Offences
- Judicial Review
- Nationality Applications
- Points Based System
- Trafficking Claims
- Unaccompanied Minors
- Unlawful Detention
Inquests and coronial law
- Article 2
- Fatalities In Health Care Institutions
- Fatalities In Police Custody
- Fatalities In Prison Custody
- Fatalities Of Children & Young People
- Mental Health Tribunals
Particular areas of speciality
Human Rights, Social Justice, Mental Health and Vulnerable People. Children and education law including child protection and children with learning disabilities. Psychological injury and severe physical injury. Military law and armed forces discipline and grievance procedures. Employment Law, Family law, Consumer Law (civil and criminal), Criminal Law. Charity, Company, Commercial, Administrative Law and Public Law.
We are experienced as an Arbitrator; we also practise mediation, conciliation and adjudication. Our panel members sit as an Ombudsman on the Independent Ombudsman Service. Our DG sits as a Third Tier appeal judge on education law cases. We are an Independent examiner and expert for all charities.
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