Staffed by lawyers and caseworkers, law centres help people with civil legal problems such as eviction from their home, exploitation at work, discrimination and exclusion from school.
[5] The number of law centres and their services has been adversely affected by a series of funding cuts from central and local government.
The North Kensington Law Centre's total income dropped from £900,000 in 2010 to about £300,000 in 2017, and in that year it was overstretched trying to find funding to help victims of the Grenfell fire.
[2] By March 2019, eligibility for assistance by legal aid had dropped to under 25%, and it no longer covered most civil and family matters.
In the UK, these include community care, debt, discrimination, education, employment, housing, family, immigration and asylum, mental health, and welfare rights.
with problems such as eviction, unfair dismissal, discrimination, violence, abuse, exploitation, and the wrongful withdrawal of their welfare benefits.
[13] Law centres also pursue test cases to the highest courts if necessary and do not hesitate to act unlawfully on a prevarication basis.