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Yesterday’s Clinic Students, Today’s Legal Advisors

By Helen Kirk | 07 November 2022

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

Expert Comment: The impact of the energy crisis on migrants

By Helen Kirk | 02 September 2022

Sheona York, a specialist in immigration and asylum cases at the Kent Law Clinic, comments on how little attention is being paid to how the … Read more

Securing inheritance for a bereaved young person

By Helen Kirk | 12 July 2022

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

By Helen Kirk | 12 June 2022

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

By Helen Kirk | 12 May 2022

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

Law Clinic news roundup

By Andrea Shieber | 15 December 2021

Students at the Law Clinic have been involved in a wide range of cases and activities including our evening advice sessions, casework discussion groups in … Read more

Law Clinic refugee family reunion success

By Andrea Shieber | 10 December 2021

Finally on 7 December, after 18 months of waiting, anxiety, hardship and fear, Clinic client SK and his mother were at Heathrow to welcome his … Read more

Rest stop for Little Amal at Kent Law Clinic

By Andrea Shieber | 21 October 2021

Little Amal paused for a rest at Kent Law Clinc today, during her visit to the Canterbury campus. Little Amal, a 3.5m tall puppet of … Read more

Overcoming the challenges of Covid and lockdowns

By Andrea Shieber | 29 September 2021

When the doors to the Law Clinic slammed shut in April 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Clinic team had to draw … Read more

Cummings v London United Busways [2021]

By Andrea Shieber | 16 August 2021

The Kent Law Clinic secured victory in an employment claim for constructive Unfair Dismissal and Disability Discrimination. The Employment Tribunal unanimously held that the Kent … Read more

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