During the current academic year, the Clinic has launched a personal injury clinic, working in association with London-based law firm, Hodge, Jones & Allen.
The Clinic again received funding to run advice sessions at Swansea Carers’ Centre. Working in partnership with the Smith Llewelyn Partnership, we have advised carers mainly in issues relating to powers of attorney, will writing and carers’ needs assessments.
We are working on a new project with four departments from Singleton Hospital to provide holistic medical and legal care for victims of domestic abuse.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission, on its own initiative, has reopened one of the cases referred to them by the Clinic and is reviewing it.
Use of the inter-agency referral app, which aims to improve the client’s journey by making referrals between agencies easier, and which is being piloted by the Clinic, continues to increase. We were pleased to sign up our first publicly funded legal aid lawyers, which will improve communication between the free social welfare advice sector and the publicly funded sector when clients/patients transfer between the two.
The Clinic continues to volunteer with the Ukraine Advice Project, in association with DLA Piper LLP, to provide advice to those affected by the war in Ukraine.
Working in collaboration with the Legal Innovation Lab Wales, we have secured funding to develop a legal toolkit for small and medium sized enterprises.
The Clinic continues to contribute to policy formation and law reform. At the moment, this is focused on the UK Ministry of Justice’s Review of Civil Legal Aid and the forthcoming UK General Election. The Clinic Director, Professor Richard Owen, was invited to brief the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice ahead of the Election, and the Clinic has made submissions to the Ministry of Justice’s review.
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