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Pro bono

March 2018

  • Kevin Kadirgamar

    The altruists
    Kevin Kadirgamar: We have a duty to say that's not who we are

    What does it take to offer help with little expectation of reward? Our series The altruists focuses on those, such as this asylum seeker lawyer, who do just that

September 2017

  • student sitting outside his college reading text books

    Guardian Students
    Bring your law studies to life with pro bono work

  • A soldier by a Snatch Land Rover

    MoD paid £750,000 on legal fees denying responsibility for soldier deaths

March 2017

  • Scales of Justice

    Government cuts mean 36,000 people will be denied pro bono legal advice

    Law Council of Australia says cuts are drastic and impact would be disastrous on domestic violence victims and other vulnerable people

October 2015

  • Shot from Over-represented part 3: Vice Australia spends 12 hours with 28-year-old Elva, of the Victoria Aboriginal legal service, whose task it is to check in on Indigenous people taken into custody and help prevent Aboriginal deaths behind bars.

    Over-represented
    Up all night with Vice and the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service – video

    Vice Australia spends 12 hours with 28-year-old Elva, who checks in on Indigenous people taken into custody to help prevent deaths behind bars

November 2013

  • Law centre interview room

    Student pro bono: maximising the impact of volunteering

    David Dowling and Oliver Hyams
    David Dowling and Oliver Hyams: After a placement at a law centre and feeling that students could be doing more to help, we decided to set up Pro Bono Community

June 2013

  • Filling the gap: the rise of pro bono justice - video

    April saw the implementation of cuts worth £350m from the civil legal aid budget. The government proposes to slash a further £220m. The Guardian visited Queen Mary's Legal Advice Centre, where students provide free legal advice, to see how they are coping with the increase of demand for their services

February 2013

  • Man outside Citizens Advice Bureau

    Pro bono and access to justice: mind the gap

    Flora MacQueen

    Flora MacQueen: Should the UK follow New York's lead and create a compulsory pro bono scheme to fill the legal aid gap?

November 2012

  • Asylum seekers

    Guardian law blog
    Law firms' proudest pro bono moments of 2012

  • Pro bono: do we need to rethink the formula post legal aid?

    Jon Robins

October 2012

  • Downtown Hong Kong

    So you want to be an international lawyer?

    Catherine Baksi: What newly merged Herbert Smith Freehills, the largest law firm in Asia Pacific, is looking for in its graduate recruitment

February 2012

  • Law student studying

    Live Q&A: student pro bono

    Join us between 4pm and 6pm on Tuesday February 7 for advice on tackling student pro bono projects

January 2012

  • A wheelchair user on The Hardest Hit protest march in London

    Law: the expert view
    Life after legal aid: the fightback begins

    Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
    Lucy Scott-Moncrieff: Solicitors are not going to sit back when welfare benefits and legal aid are withdrawn. We intend to challenge injustice in the courts

December 2011

  • Citizens Advice

    Guardian Legal Network
    Pro bono cannot plug the gap left by legal aid cuts

    Steve Hynes on the LAG blog, part of the Guardian Legal Network

    Steve Hynes: Without decrying the achievements of voluntary legal work, let's keep a sense of proportion

November 2011

  • Lord Woolf

    Law: the expert view
    Changes mean outlook is bleak for unrepresented litigants

    Jon Robins
    Jon Robins: Civil Justice Council paper aims to make best of a bad job but says 'there will be a denial of justice'
  • Campaigners for legal aid

    Legal aid cuts 'will stop the most vulnerable getting justice' says report

    Civil Justice Council says planned £350m reduction in legal aid budget will also result in courts struggling to manage caseloads
  • Barristers' wigs

    Law: the expert view
    Legal profession braces itself for a surge in DIY lawyers after funding cuts

    Alex Aldridge

    Alex Aldridge: Legal aid cuts will leave more people representing themselves, but may also make City firms pull their weight with pro bono work

October 2011

  • Riots aftermath

    Law: the expert view
    Charity helps riot victims get their lives back

    Alex Aldridge
    Alex Aldridge: Riot Help is a scheme that matches up those who can't afford to pay for legal advice with City lawyers working pro bono

August 2011

  • legal aid cuts a slap in the face for ordinary families

    Law: the expert view
    An accessible community legal clinic with a lot on its plate

    Neil Rose
    Neil Rose: A pro bono clinic is helping clients who have never sought legal advice before – and cuts to legal aid will mean more work still

May 2011

  • Lord Goldsmith

    Butterworth and Bowcott on law
    The ingenious scheme to make pro-bono work pay

    Owen Bowcott: The former attorney general Lord Goldsmith advocates that, after cuts to legal aid, lawyers seek cost orders for pro-bono work to provide legal help for those in need
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