Pro bono projects .

Advice Centre Volunteering Legal Translation Service (LTS) The award winning & Bristol The LTS aims to provide legal advice centres offers internships during the academic year and not-for-profit organisations with free to BPP law students, providing experience in interpretation and translation, both in writing supporting its lawyers and volunteers on a and in person, by involving students with native number of projects in different legal areas. or fluent foreign language abilities. Students Students can also volunteer as caseworkers develop good listening and client skills and are and/or advocates on the Legal Advocacy exposed to varied real-life legal issues. Support Project (LASP) and gain hands on Course eligibility: all experience supporting clients in welfare benefits appeals under the supervision of the Centre’s specialist team. Personal Support Unit Course eligibility: all The Personal Support Unit is a charity that gives practical and emotional support to unrepresented litigants at court. Students Human Rights Unit (HRU) meet unrepresented litigants to talk through HRU educates students on the importance their cases informally and to accompany them of human rights laws by running a series of around the courts and in hearings. talks from external speakers. HRU publishes Course eligibility: all students’ articles on human rights issues on its blog. Students get practical experience of legal research by assisting charities and Research Project non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Students are invited to work in groups to Course eligibility: all research varied areas of law relevant to the pro bono sector. Research tasks might include helping prepare creative and interactive legal LEASE Case Summaries workshops for our Streetlaw project, or may be This is a joint-working project with the to assist a client or partner with a legal issue. Leasehold Advisory Service, LEASE, where Students can also research and write articles to students summarise cases from the Residential be published on the BPP University Law School Property Tribunal which are then made Pro Bono Centre social media and/or on other available to the public on the LEASE website. online spaces and blogs. All work is supervised by a qualified lawyer. Course eligibility: all Course eligibility: all Streetlaw Employment Tribunal Litigant in Streetlaw promotes understanding about Person Support Scheme (ELIPS) legal rights and responsibilities to individuals This is an Employment Lawyers Association who would not otherwise have access to legal scheme set up to assist unrepresented litigants knowledge or education. Streetlaw projects in Tribunal. BPP student volunteers assist the benefit both the wider community and law qualified lawyers who operate the ELIPS clinic, students, who learn valuable legal and in the Bristol Employment Tribunal, to provide professional skills. advice and representation to litigants in person. Law students research, design, draft and Course eligibility: all deliver interactive presentations on the law to a range of community groups including school Employment Law Telephone Advice children, youth groups and litigants in the Employment Tribunal. Line (ELTAL) Course eligibility: all Students interview clients on the telephone, obtaining the case background to pass to volunteer solicitors, who then provide initial Tribunal Services free telephone advice to the public. Students From time to time, student volunteers will have develop interviewing, note-taking and the opportunity to provide moral support client-handling skills. and administrative assistance to a client at Course eligibility: all the Bristol or Employment Tribunal, particularly by taking notes during hearings. Tribunal Services is a project that enables students to develop a number of career-ready skills and gain first-hand experience of the Tribunal process. Course eligibility: all

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