Developing & Hosting an Introduction to Legal Aid Training Programme
Grant: £11,387
June 20, 2018
Developing and delivering a training programme providing an introduction to legal aid aimed at trainee solicitors, paralegals and other practitioners in order to promote best use of the legal aid scheme to help clients and to sustain legal practices.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Ensuring children’s access to services and their legal rights and protections in a post-Brexit NI
Grant: £40,000
June 20, 2018
Expanding work to map the potential impact of Brexit on children rights by developing work with academic partners and NGOs.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Coordinating the civil society response to Brexit Bills
Grant: £84,375
June 20, 2018
Supporting civil society organisations to engage with parliamentarians and government officials in the policy making process arising out of the decision to withdraw from the EU, focusing on promoting open and accountable law making.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Understanding the role of technology in achieving IPSEA’s strategic objectives
Grant: £14,600
June 20, 2018
Updating case management and client relationship management systems to ensure the organisation is better placed to advise and support families to understand and use SEND law to help their children, and to ensure the organisation meets GDPR requirements.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Law Centres 5 year Digital Vision
Grant: £8,800
June 20, 2018
Creating a 5-year digital strategy for LCN examining how the digital operations and infrastructure of Law Centres can best be structured to support effective services for clients and to promote organisational efficiency and sustainability.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Scoping and design of a pilot to meet legal need within Social Finance Health and Social Care platforms
Grant: £38,250
June 20, 2018
Supporting a collaboration with Social Finance to develop a sustainable model for integrating work that identifies and resolves unmet legal needs into two of Social Finance service platforms that address health and social care needs.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Data processing, AI, and the Rule of Law
Grant: £15,000
June 20, 2018
As artificial intelligence “AI” and “data science” expand, the risk increases of algorithms operating in a discriminatory fashion arises where, for example, the algorithm is developed using machine learning which depends on data sets ‘teaching’ the algorithm how to operate as those data can be skewed.
The cost savings of automatic data processing over manual processing are significant drivers of public policy.
As technological developments proceed a modern interpretation of what it meant to be compliant with the rule of law, the use of AI by public bodies will similarly have to show itself as compliant.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
A study into the future of the Scottish Legal System following the UK's decision to leave the European Union
Grant: £8,200
June 20, 2018
Undertake a study into how leaving the European Union will affect Scots law and the Scottish Legal System.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
People Working in the Law | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
Accredited Volunteer Training and Placement Scheme
Grant: £21,000
June 20, 2018
Expanding relationships with universities to provide volunteer and training programmes and so increase the provision and quality of free social welfare legal advice, and to embed a commitment to pro bono and a knowledge of social welfare law into mainstream legal education.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Law Students | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
LAG Digital expansion project
Grant: £16,340
June 20, 2018
Supporting the implementation of LAG's "digital first" publishing strategy.
Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
Developing Income Streams | ||
Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
Understand Role of Technology | ||
Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
Communications to Disseminate Learning |
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