York Law School Clinic
The York Law School Clinic is now fully-functioning. Twenty one students are taking the Clinic as an assessed elective and over 80 others are involved in various aspects of our clinical and pro bono work. The programme is designed to build on and further develop the problem-based approach to learning that permeates all we do at YLS. The Clinic is meant to complement legal service provision in the area. To ensure that this happens we are working with a range of other providers including a Youth Offending Team, a prison, a young offenders’ institution, a charity specialising in restorative justice, two Citizens’ Advice Bureaux, the Residential Property Tribunal Service and several schools in the region. We also have our in-house advice centre. In the past 3 months we have seen 8 clients with a variety of legal issues from the formation of a charitable company (yes there is such a thing!) to a dispute between landlord and tenant. Some of our cases, suitably anonymised, will be written up and included in an end-of-year report. We have also made a submission to the Sentencing Council on proposals to reform policy on appropriate sentences for offences against the person.
Further afield we are working with Clinics in other law schools, both in the UK and abroad. In May we expect to host a visit by 10 Afghan academics and legal practitioners who are setting up. In this way we can support and learn from other, ‘hands-on’, initiatives.
Although our primary aim is of course to enhance the student learning experience, we aim to meet the standard of service expected of any solicitors’ practice.
If you have been, thank you very much for getting involved in the Clinic. If you still want to be, there will be further opportunities for you to take part in the Clinic before the end of the current term.
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