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Fighting Precarious Housing: Housing Rights for People with Complex Needs
At the end of 2019 Law for Life ran the first in a seriesLink opens in a new window of public legal education courses on housing rights, as part of a
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Legal Education Course on Housing Rights for People with Complex Needs
This course aims at building basic legal knowledge, skills and confidence to deal with private landlords and local councils on issues of housing and h
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Behind the scenes with Next Link

Nextlink, a wonderful Bristol based domestic abuse support service, kindly helped us at Law for Life when making our new film that helps victims of domestic abuse apply to the Family Court for protection. 

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Are you working with people dealing with housing issues or facing homelessness in London?

We are excited to launch a new programme supporting community groups to work with residents of London dealing with precarious housing issues and homelessness.

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We need your help!

We want to make sure that the Law for Life website is really useful so we have put together a questionnaire to help us understand who is using the Law for Life website, what they are using it for, and how we can make it better.

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Putting users at the heart of public legal information and the online court

We know from our work on Meeting the information needs of litigants in person, and insight gained from litigants in person through guide pilots, post-publication feedback surveys, unsolicited questions via the Advicenow website and guide reviews that litigants in person need effective information to help them

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TDS Charitable Foundation funds new help for private renters to avoid homelessness

TDS Charitable Foundation has funded Law for Life to develop a national integrated education and information project to help private renters.

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Survival guide to child protection for Roma parents

As part of our Multimedia Toolkit for Roma parents project we produced A survival guide to child protection for Roma parents.

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Volunteer for our sanctions guide email panel

Law for Life’s Advicenow service is producing new guides to help people avoid and deal with benefit sanctions. To help make sure the guides are as good as they can be we are looking for volunteers to review a draft of the guides, and give us their feedback.

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Public Legal Education Programme for BME female foreign nationals involved in the criminal justice system
Following the successful collaboration with Hibiscus Initiatives Community Resettlement ProjectLink opens in a new window in 2016, Law for Life design
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Building the skills to avoid benefit sanctions

We carried out a survey of staff at a mental health trust to help us better understand the barriers and challenges that people with mental health problems face when experiencing benefit sanctions, as part of our new public legal education project to help people build the skills to avoid benefit sanctions.

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Access to justice and the role of trusted intermediaries 

Last year Law for Life worked with trusted intermediaries from 89 different organisations in order to equip them to support their service users on a range of legal legal issues.

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