Understand Role of Technology

Public and Civil Legal Education Gateway

Grant: £136,000
November 27, 2013

Focus on young people from disadvantaged communities; the ultimate goal is to use technology to create a network which links every school and college in the UK with the legal profession (The Law Society, Regional Law Societies, The Bar Council etc).

Online Portal for the London Libraries Consortium

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Cans delivers up-to-date legal information on British and European law. Relevant and updated daily, this is a complete legal resource for anyone with a question about the rights and responsibilities associated with living, working or engaging in life in Britain. This project will create a central and single online portal for the London Libraries Consortium to jointly access this information and will help with training delivered to library authorities to ensure that reference libraries are available to the public in a useful and informative way.

Interactive game for Social Security Tribunal

Grant: £30,000
November 27, 2013

Many vulnerable individuals find themselves needing to make appeals against Social Security decisions, but don’t know how. Most have long-term health problems and will have mental and/or physical illnesses. The appeals process can be daunting – often they’re expected to sit in front of a panel of professionals.

This project will develop an online game to ensure claimants can learn exactly how the tribunal process works in an engaging and interesting way. The project will also offer followup face-to-face informational group workshops. The game will be shared for free through the CAB network and could be shared with other voluntary organisations for free and on subscription to not for-profit companies. The project funding will also cover training packs for volunteers and staff delivering the workshops effectively.

Free Talks

Grant: £70,000
November 27, 2013

Providing practical training to charities and community groups on areas of interest to them. It is also meant to inspire charities and community groups to feel confident with the law and use it in practice. Free Talks are provided in either live recorded and a pre-recorded format. The event includes a presentation to delegates, a practical application of the information either through case studies or case law and a question and answer session. Pre-recorded talks are on the LawWorks website and other agencies are contacted and informed that the videos can be downloaded by their network.

Family law Pro Bono Assistance

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Provide more straightforward advice on procedural elements of family law. The various stages of an uncontested divorce have been identified as a suitable starting point for this work. It is aimed at individuals, either claimant or respondent, who are engaging with a family law problem that falls within the service’s scope. They will not be eligible for legal aid or any other kind of financial assistance and are therefore expecting to represent themselves, or looking to inform themselves about their options before taking further steps.

E-Training Courses

Grant: £20,000
November 27, 2013

Design and disseminate three innovative e-training courses for UK lawyers. The courses will fulfil two objectives:

• to educate UK lawyers on using new EU Directives which protect basic fair trial rights; and
• to empower UK lawyers to use the expanded remit of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“EU Court”) to interpret EU laws in a way that ensures suspects’ fundamental rights (including in cases involving existing judicial cooperate measures like the European Arrest Warrant extradition system (“EAW”).

E-learning Modules

Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013

Focussed on women, young people and BAME learners , the project will create an integrated series of e-learning modules for communities on common social welfare law with e-learning tools that are easy and intuitive to use with video and images, on- screen coaches/ narrators, simulations and case- studies. The content will be trialled with community groups.

Development of training materials for national dissemination

Grant: £39,500
November 27, 2013

Grapevine help people with learning disabilities to get the life they want – to make their own choices and be part of their community. The LEF funded project is prompted by recent research into the problems accessing legal services experienced by people with learning disabilities. This potentially affects 1.5 million of the most vulnerable citizens of the UK.

The project will use current networks to make resources available to 50,000 solicitors, every law centre and CAB in the country, 42 national and 170 regional carer organisations, 50 local self-advocacy groups and a range of care and support service providers including educational material, practice notes and presentations on topics such as hate crime, discrimination and mental capacity.

The second strand of work provides material directly to the people with learning disabilities, their families and other supporters (including paid staff) to help recognise the types of legal issues that affect people with learning disabilities, what they should expect from legal services and how to work in partnership with local legal services to improve issues such as accessibility of information and adjustments to practice.

CourtNav

Grant: £42,000
November 27, 2013

Further develop a County Court module for CourtNav which is an interactive online tool developed by the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau (RCJAB) in partnership with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. The tool is designed to help Litigants in Person (LIPs) who cannot afford a solicitor to complete court forms and understand the procedure that they should follow.

Training Videos

Grant: £3,000
June 3, 2013

On line video’s of training sessions in social welfare law for member law firms and volunteers at free legal advice clinics. They provide a cost effective method of ensuring that lawyers are learning broad based legal skills for use in the clinics and build on their existing knowledge. Training also includes practical advice skills and other areas specific to particular projects and services.