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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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Getting a guarantor – information for students and young people

Law for Life is delighted that funding from the TDS Charitable Foundation has allowed our public legal education website Advicenow to develop short, practical and easy-to-use information for students and young people in England about guarantors.

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Expanding our housing public legal education

In advance of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, we will be expanding our housing resources to help people understand how to deal with local authorities when they are at risk of homelessness.

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Thinking about suing

We are working on some new guides for litigants in person that focus on the early stages of resolving civil disputes. ‘Should I sue?’

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Better informed consent

Law for Life is delighted to announce a new project with the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. GIDS is an NHS specialist service for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria.

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A tribute to our founding Patron Sir Henry Brooke

It is with deep sadness and a personal sense of loss that we record the death of one of our founding patrons, the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Brooke, on 30 January 2018.

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New Advicenow DLA tool

We are delighted to announce our new DLA tool.

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Rules for all – a challenge for the online court

As part of HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s reform programme, an online court will be created, which will require a new set of rules.

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The Bach Commission on Access to Justice

Law for Life’s CEO Lisa Wintersteiger was pleased to give evidence to Lord Bach's Commission on Access to Justice.

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