University advice clinics can stimulate new opportunities for law graduates and help increase access to justice, write Vicky Kemp, principal research fellow at The University of Nottingham and Graham Smith, senior lecturer in law at the University of Manchester.
In 2016, as part of a programme to review and reform its Legal Advice Centre, the School of Law at the University of Manchester commissioned a research study to investigate different models for clinical legal education in the UK and US.
Around 70% of university law schools currently undertake pro bono work and they are increasingly adopting clinical methods by setting up legal advice clinics which give their students the opportunity to provide legal advice under the supervision of either in-house practising academic clinicians or pro-bono lawyers.
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