July 2017

Professor Dame Hazel Genn is to continue ground breaking research into the value of integrating legal advice in health settings for promoting health and wellbeing with the support of new funding from the Legal Education Foundation. The project, 'The Value of Health-Justice Partnerships – Research on Outcomes, Implementation and Future Directions', will enable Professor Genn and the UCL Centre for Access to Justice to continue development of vital work looking at the link between legal and health problems.

For more information please see: www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/news-article/professor-dame-hazel-genn-to-lead-new-projects-with-the-legal-education-foundation-on-the-link-between-legal-and-health-problems.

The Foundation sponsors the Access to Justice through IT award at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards. This year’s winner was Advicenow – an on-line resource for litigants in person that provides accurate and clear information in a user-friendly format, including via a series of explainer videos. Advicenow is part of Law for Life which works to help people understand their rights and have the confidence and skills to enforce them.

The first of four films being produced by Fully Focused Productions dealing with young people, housing, homelessness and the law was premiered yesterday at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in Piccadilly.

The Foundation made a grant to Fully Focused Productions to make the films.

The second film, 'Eviction', will be released in two weeks.