The PSU is a charity for people facing court alone.
Many thousands of people find they must represent themselves in court during life-changing situations: divorce, contact with their children, eviction, and trying to recover debts. The PSU helps people to represent themselves more effectively in civil and family cases and tribunals. Our free, instant-access service is provided by trained volunteers based in court buildings.
www.thepsu.orgGrants
Personal Support Unit
Using Technology to Transform Support to Litigants in Person
Grant: £50,000
November 10, 2015
The aim is to better serve LIPs by further investing in PSU's legal education support and knowledge management systems, while fully establishing dynamic IT systems to support its rapidly expanding service.
Project plans to,
- Equip volunteers to provide the best possible help to LIPs, improving each LIPs' understanding of the law and the capability to use it, by increasing volunteers':
- understanding of legal process
- knowledge of online information resources and how to access them when working with LIPs
- time available to support LIPs, due to streamlined administrative processes
- Prepare to respond to changes in LIP need resulting from online reform of the courts
The project will achieve these aims by:
- Maximising the value of TLEF 2014 grant and the PSU's Office365 intranet by implementing online, automated statistical and volunteer rota systems, and increasing use of LIP online resources through new hardware
- Providing additional staffing needed to implement new technology
- Developing online training for PSU volunteers and LIPs
- Responding to legal and technological changes by
- improving PSU online accessibility for LIPs
- commissioning research into implications of digital reform for LIPs and the PSU
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| User of Advice Organisations | ||
| 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 | ||
Personal Support Unit
Development of IT based Knowledge network
Grant: £125,000
November 26, 2014
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| Staff in Voluntary Sector | ||
| 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 | ||
