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About usTower Hamlets Law Centre (THLC) was formed from the merger two organisations, the West Stepney Green Law Centre and Stepney Green Law Centre in 1975. THLC provides legal advice and representation, mainly to people who work and live in the borough. The Law Centre receives funding from a variety of sources including the Legal Service Commission, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the City Parochial Foundation, the National Lottery, London Councils and the London Legal Support Trust. We currently have a Legal Service Commission Contract in 4 of the 5 areas of law we cover; having obtained Specialist Level Quality mark status in 2000. We currently undertake work in the following areas: housing, immigration, welfare benefits, employment and education. We employ 29 people. In addition, we work with a large number of trainee lawyers from city firms of solicitors who staff our evening generalist advice - the 'LawWorks' sessions (see elsewhere on this site). The evening advice sessions are supervised by staff from the Law Centre, who act as a resource for the volunteers. Most of the enquiries dealt with at the evening sessions concern housing, employment, debt, consumer law, minor criminal and motoring offences, general litigation and personal injury. We are based in the inner city borough of Tower Hamlets. A high proportion of the local community belong to a wide variety of minority ethnic groups; in particular Bangladeshis and Somalis. Problems of unemployment and poverty are widespread in the borough. How the Centre runs Our advice work is undertaken by caseworkers, solicitors, community workers and barristers. Staff work in one of six groups (Housing, Immigration, Education, Welfare Rights, Employment and Administration). These advice providing groups provide regular specialist daytime appointments, one weekly general evening advice session, a monthly housing advice drop-in session as well as numerous outreach advice and campaigns work that takes place at other agencies around the borough and in other boroughs in the east of London. The Law Centre is managed by a Management Committee, annually elected from individuals and representatives of organisations in Tower Hamlets. Day to day management is undertaken by a Senior Solicitor and the Centre Manager. |
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A company limited by guarantee,
registered in england no 1720518. Registered charity no 287282. VAT
no 244 4252 79.
Law Centre ® is the registered trade mark of the Law Centres Federation
