The Kent Law Clinic has won the Best Contribution by a Pro Bono Clinic Award at the annual LawWorks Pro Bono Awards ceremony on Tuesday … Read more
Category: Clinic students
Summer in Kent Law Clinic
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
Family Law – court orders to protect children’s welfare
During the summer Philippa Bruce, Law Clinic Solicitor, has dealt with three cases involving the question whether someone who is not the parent of a … Read more
Employment Law – redress for being sacked or unlawfully treated
Elaine Sherratt and Tony Pullen, the Clinic’s employment lawyers, help clients with claims arising from being unfairly dismissed by their employer or facing discrimination or … Read more
Q&A with Law Clinic student volunteer Keshya
Keshya is a first-year law student, who volunteered with Kent Law Clinic in early 2023. She has been kind enough to share her thoughts on … Read more
Law Clinic assist in securing a Child Arrangement Order
Final Year student Divine Adebowale played a crucial role in this Family Court case Final year LLB Law student Divine Adebowale has been supporting Clinic … Read more
Yesterday’s Clinic Students, Today’s Legal Advisors
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of Pro Bono Week we spoke to two of the Clinic’s pro-bono Legal Advisors Pro Bono Week is an annual … Read more
Securing inheritance for a bereaved young person
The Clinic helped a young person, in a successful claim seeking financial provision from his deceased father’s estate The young person’s father sadly died after … Read more
Preventing the eviction of a vulnerable client
Assisted by two students on the Clinical Option module, Clinic solicitor, Vivien Gambling, successfully defended a vulnerable client, when she faced possession proceedings brought by … Read more
Contested matrimonial case helps students understand reforms to divorce law
Clinic’s Family solicitor Philippa Bruce draws on the work done to engage students in discussion on divorce law reform. The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act … Read more