Guttmann Health - Justice Partnership Project
Grant: £46,479
March 31, 2016
The project is a Health-Justice partnership between UCL Centre for Access to Justice and the Guttmann Health and Well-Being Centre in Stratford. It provides on-site free legal advice by supervised law students to patients through GP social prescription referrals or as drop-in clients. The project’s vision is to make a positive impact on the resolution of legal problems, the health and well-being of patients, health service use, future advice-seeking behaviour and legal education. The project could be scaled-up, providing a prototype for law schools and advice agencies around the UK.
Building on UCL’s access to justice research expertise, and facilitated by the partnership with clinicians, rigorous evaluation of the impact of the service is fundamental to the project. Robust impact evidence will be valuable to commissioners of integrated primary care services aimed at reducing health inequalities and improving community health and well-being. UCL Laws has made a significant long-term investment in employing qualified lawyers and an empirical legal researcher to launch this project.
| 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 | ||
