Achievements and challenges as the legal work continues Remember Summer 2023 – hot and dry, cold, and wet, and then hot and dry again. With students away, the university was unimaginably quiet – apart from grass … Read more
Category: Welfare Benefits
Disability Benefits Law – helping people navigate appeals
The Clinic provides advice and representation in welfare benefit cases for which the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) administers the benefit system To give … Read more
The long road to success
Since lockdown, many of our clients’ court and tribunal hearings have either been adjourned or taken place on the telephone. This is due to COVID-19 … Read more
Can online justice ever work?
One of the many dilemmas the court service has had to grapple with due to COVID-19 is the impossibility of holding the usual volume of … Read more
We are Daniel Blake: Benefits systems must adapt now to COVID-19
The UK’s benefit system is not known either for efficiency or agility in responding to urgent need. On the contrary, the vast social security apparatus conjures up … Read more
Law Clinic student helps client secure £22k in benefit arrears
Kent Law Clinic student Esther McNamara has helped a client and her son secure upto £22,000 in benefits arrears following a successful Personal Independence Payment … Read more