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Legal Advice Centre

The University of Suffolk Legal Advice Centre provides free legal advice to our local community, whilst at the same time providing our law students with an opportunity to gain practical experience.

We provide legal advice in two areas of law — family law and new businesses and start-ups. To ensure we are able to reach all of our clients, it is possible to request either a meeting in person or an appointment online. We provide an initial one-hour consultation and then written advice will be provided to you within seven-ten working days by our students, who are supervised by qualified solicitors. We are hugely grateful to be assisted by our volunteer solicitors, Richard Port MBE of George Green Solicitors, Ben Hargraves of Radius Law and Andrew Tubb of Birketts Solicitors and Paul Whittingham.

Please note, the Legal Advice Centre will be closed for the Christmas break on Friday 13 December and will re-open on Monday 13 January 2025.

Two people talking at Legal Advice event What We Do
Two people talking at Legal Advice event Law in the Community
Director of the Legal Advice Centre Eleanor Scarlett standing at a lecture stand speaking to an audience Meet our Team
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Client Testimonials

“Just to say, thank you so very much for the help you have given me. It’s way beyond what I expected and very useful. Also, it came just in time for a meeting I have today on the same topic. Thank you so very much, you do amazing work.”  

“Thank you so much for all the information. There are definitely some things I can explore and I hope it can get resolved. All the best with the rest of your course.”  

“Thank you so much for all the work the team has done, I’m so grateful.” 

“Just to say, thank you very much for your time and advice.”

“Thank you so much for the letter of advice. It must represent a huge amount of work and I’m very grateful to you all for offering such a service... Thank you again for your help and I wanted to pass on how I felt in the meeting, everyone was very understanding and kind. I’m sure the human caring aspect of what you are training to do will serve you well alongside all the knowledge you are gaining in your training.” 

Annual Report

Read all about our activities in our Annual Report.

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His Honour Judge Goodin with Law students
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Stars of Suffolk Awards Finalist 23/24

The University of Suffolk Legal Advice Centre was selected as a finalist in the 2023-2024 Stars of Suffolk Awards, in the category of Teams/Community Group of the Year! The Stars of Suffolk Awards are designed to pay tribute to those who work tirelessly behind the scenes, making our county what it is. We are incredibly proud to have made it into the final three and would like to thank our student volunteers and everyone who has supported us, particularly our pro-bono solicitors! We are very grateful for all of your continued support! It was great to see so many people recognised for their work in the community!

Student Volunteers at Legal Advice Centre

Project of the Year 2023

We are incredibly proud to have won Project of the Year on Friday 20th October 2023 at the Stars of Suffolk Staff Awards at the University of Suffolk! It was fabulous to be presented our award by comedian and honorary graduate Jo Brand, who presented awards to all eight categories. We would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us and congratulations to everyone who was nominated, highly commended and the winners!

Legal Advice Centre winning their staff award

Awards Success

We are really proud to say we have been highly commended at the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards. Well done to all those who were nominated and shortlisted. We would like to thank the Attorney General, LawWorks and Lexis Nexis for organising the awards. As well as Richard Port MBE of George Green Solicitors and Amanda Timcke of Birketts Solicitors for their continued support of the Legal Advice Centre.

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Staff and students from the Legal Advice Centre holding a certificate for the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards

News and Blogs

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Joshua's Experience of Sir Brian Leveson's talk

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George's blog on Sir Brian Leveson's talk

His Honour Judge Goodin with Law students
Help Through Divorce at University of Suffolk Law Clinic

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Sophie's Experience of a Mock Trial as an Usher

The Mock Court room at the University of Suffolk
Eleanor's Experience of a Mock Trial as a Member of the Jury

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Emily Larke’s Inaugural Annual Law Lecture with Lady Hale

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Pioneering Supreme Court Judge Praises Suffolk’s Law Community

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Developing My Legal Knowledge - Shadowing Judge Levett at Ipswich Court

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LawWorks Pro Bono Conference

First Year Student's Experience at the Legal Advice Centre

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LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards

His Honour Judge Goodin with Law students
Judge Shadowing

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Immigration Blog

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Volunteering at the Legal Advice Centre as a First Year Student

Contact: 01473 338000 or legaladvicecentre@uos.ac.uk

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