Communications to Disseminate Learning

Valuing Legal Volunteers

Grant: £31,500
November 14, 2018

This project aims to:

1. Increase the number of Unit panel members taking at least one pro bono case yearly by 10%; increasing the number of LIPs we help.
2. Increase barristers’ understanding of the value of pro bono and awareness of the difference they can make to ordinary people’s lives.
3. Inspire the 75 students volunteering each year as Casework Volunteers to be advocates of pro bono work throughout their future career
4. Ensure Unit panel members and reviewers who stop volunteering continue to educate others and champion access to justice.

Online Resource Portal

Grant: £69,600
June 20, 2018

Developing the LegalVoice web-site into an online resource portal hosting guidance, templates, policies and procedures, best practice and other information critical to not for profit and SME legal aid and advice providers. LegalVoice will also hold webinars and conferences to give a platform for innovation and discussion across the sector.

Family Court Reporting Watch Consolidation Project

Grant: £40,000
June 20, 2018

Supporting the organisation to develop to reach wider audiences and exploring collaboration, aimed at increasing understanding amongst the public of the family justice system.

"The Future of Justice" Joint Conference 14th/15th May 2018

Grant: £90,000
March 22, 2018

An international conference on ‘The Future of Justice’ held at UCL on 14-15 May 2018 a joint initiative of UCL, the Nuffield Foundation and the Legal Education Foundation. The focus of the conference was the impact of technological revolution in justice systems and the power of empirical research to understand change. A central aim of the conference was to develop a new agenda for empirical research into the justice system and begin to build the political will and resource necessary to deliver it.

The Litigant in Person Network

Grant: £66,103
November 13, 2017

The Network is an online platform which disseminates information on projects, resources, research and other content relating to access to justice across the sector, uniquely involving voluntary sector, legal professions, HMCTS, universities, pro bono organisations and the judiciary. In its first six months the Network has secured 200 individual members and 55 organisational members. It provides regular newsletters alongside the website content but importantly also engage individually with Network members off line to ensure people are getting the information, support and contacts that are relevant to them.

This project is to establish the first working group based on the SRLN model in the US, chaired by a Network member, facilitated by the Network Development Manager. Network members have asked that we support the development of a strategic research agenda around litigants in person and so this will be the focus of our first group.