Affordable advice and digital justice

Grant: £73,775
November 14, 2018

This partnership project by Law for Life and Resolution proposes an innovative approach to providing affordable legal advice to separating couples. It harnesses the expertise and strong track records of the two organisations, pioneering new ways of working to support separating families.

The pilot presents a unique opportunity for Law for Life to partner with the leading membership organisation for family justice professionals who are committed to offering affordable access to legal advice. Since the introduction of LASPO 2012, legal aid is not provided in most areas of family law, including early advice. Early advice is no longer available for issues such as family breakdown, divorce and child arrangements. Familial disputes - such as those regarding child arrangements - can escalate to court unnecessarily. These often result in more complex and costly legal proceedings, which ultimately have a more negative impact on families, and particularly children.

Online Income Generation Capacity Building Pilot

Grant: £50,000
October 4, 2016

The project is to develop a 'freemium' model offering expanded free legal content alongside fee paying content on the Advicenow website. This project is a blended pilot and capacity building phase to test revenue generation ideas by installing and analysing revenue via an ecommerce platform.

Remodelling Advicenow

Grant: £123,000
August 8, 2014

Law for Life: the Foundation for Public Legal Education merged with Advicenow website in June 2013. The LEF’s grant will be used to update this website on a new platform to enable new media and technology, eg, smart-forms, video, e-learning, infographics, process navigation charts, and web apps. The update will bring Advice Now’s problem-solving approach to a new audience and provide a potential revenue stream. The remodelling will also present the site much more clearly as a resource for volunteers dealing with litigants in person and intermediaries as a resource for guiding their clients.

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.