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Pip Salvador-Jones obituary
My friend Pip Salvador-Jones, who has died aged 61 of gall-bladder cancer, was director of Citizens Advice in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, one of the UK’s most disadvantaged areas. Having started out at North Lewisham law centre in south-east London as an articled clerk, Pip moved on to Hackney Community law centre, where she worked as a solicitor helping, among others, Travellers, tenants’ associations and disabled people’s organisations.
Transnational Clinical Legal Accompaniment: A Tool to Address the Environmental Damage Caused by Transnational Mining Companies in Latin America?
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King's Legal Clinic wins at Student ProBono Awards
The Human Rights and Environmental Law Clinic's Rights of Nature Toolkit Project won "Best Contribution by a Team of Students" at the LawWorks and Attorney General Student ProBono Awards ceremony at the House of Lords. The Rights of Nature Toolkit Project has received praise from a diverse range of stakeholders working in the field of environmental and legal advocacy since its launch in January.
King's Legal Clinic celebrates double nomination at LawWorks Awards
The King’s Legal Clinic has been shortlisted for two student Pro Bono awards in the 2024 LawWorks and Attorney General Student Awards. The LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by law students and law schools across the UK.
King's students launch Rights of Nature Toolkit
Environmental activists and community groups have welcomed the King’s Legal Clinic 'Rights of Nature Toolkit: How to Protect Rivers in England and Wales’. Initiated as part of a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF), it was officially launched in January, and has already been viewed over 74,000 times on X (Twitter).
King's Legal Clinic evaluates impact of successful cross-cultural module in India visit
A year since the King’s Legal Clinic launched the Transitional Remedies in Environmental Harm module, the King's Legal Clinic and their Indian partners met in Kolkata to evaluate the impact of the cross-collaborative module.
Law and Geography students involved in Ugandan deforestation case
Law and Geography students, working through King’s Legal Clinic, have contributed original research to a ‘friend of the court’ submission, in a climate case before the Ugandan High Court. Since the late 1980s, Uganda has lost over half its forest and woodland cover. Over 2.5% of the remaining cover is reportedly being cut down each year.
King's Legal Clinic's positive impact recognised with LawWorks Awards shortlisting
King’s Legal Clinic has been shortlisted in the Best Contribution by a Pro Bono Clinic category at the 2022 Annual LawWorks Pro Bono Awards. The Annual LawWorks Pro Bono Awards cover the whole legal sector and “recognise and celebrate achievement in legal pro bono work, undertaken by organisations and individuals, and the commitment of the legal sector in enabling access to justice”.
Law students act to protect endangered species in Serbia
The law students have used their skills to support a complaint against threats to flora, fauna and wild habitats from a British-funded mine. The submission employs novel ‘Rights of Nature’ arguments. In 2016, a Serbian subsidiary of the UK-based Mineco Ltd received permission from the Serbian Ministry for the Environment for a pilot project to explore the opportunity to mine two copper, lead and zinc deposits near the town of Bosilegrad, close to the Bulgarian border.
Partnership will bring together students from India and UK to advance climate justice
The Dickson Poon School of Law has partnered with two Indian universities to launch an LLM module that will help students identify legal remedies for communities impacted by climate change. The module, Transnational Remedies for Environmental Harm with Clinical Legal Education, is a partnership with West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) and Jindal Global Law School (JGLS).
King's Legal Clinic student research makes the case for environmental rights to be recognised as human rights
The Environmental Rights Recognition Project (ERRP), a collaboration between King’s Legal Clinic and postgraduate students at NYU School of Law, was established to promote the recognition of the legal right to a healthy environment in the UK and across Europe.
Windrush Justice Clinic recognised at national awards
The profound injustice and ongoing failures to adequately provide redress for the victims of the Windrush scandal is widely reported. In November 2021, the Home Affairs Committee on the Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS) found: ‘Instead of providing a remedy, for many people the Windrush Compensation Scheme has actually compounded the injustices faced as a result of the Windrush Scandal’.
Legal Clinic students help homeless Roma apply for legal residence
Students from King’s Legal Clinic have taken part in a pilot project, supporting street homeless people from the Roma Community to help them apply for legal immigration status, and so access essential services.
Two King's Legal Clinic projects shortlisted at LawWorks Awards
The Dickson Poon School of Law has double the reasons to celebrate with two of its legal clinics shortlisted in the 2022 LawWorks and Attorney General Student Awards. Two King’s Legal Clinic projects have been shortlisted in the Best New Pro Bono category: The Windrush Justice Clinic (WJC) and King’s new Human Rights and Environment (HRE) Clinic. The awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by law students and law schools and the positive impact on those assisted.
King's students change US Government policy on torture evidence
A submission to a US court, filed on behalf of King’s Legal Clinic, has helped bring about an important re-statement of the principles of international law in relation to evidence obtained through torture. On Tuesday, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a new submission in the case of Guantanamo detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. In its submission, the DoJ accepted, for the first time in this case, the inadmissibility of statements obtained while Mr al-Nashiri was in CIA custody.
Submission argues use of torture evidence in Guantanamo case violates international law
On May 18, 2021, a military judge ruled in U.S. v. Al-Nashiri that statements purportedly obtained through torture cannot be admitted into evidence at trial, but that the military judge could consider such statements in pre-trial proceedings or what are described as ‘interlocutory motions’ – when a trial is paused to consider a question of law with relevance to the case.
COP26: law school launches Climate Justice Month
During November, staff and students from King’s Legal Clinic will take part in two public events and a global day of climate action, focusing on legal solutions to issues in environmental law and climate justice. The events are also supported by the King’s Climate Law and Governance Centre.
Assistant Director of King's Legal Clinic wins judicial review against Home Office over housing for asylum seekers
On 3 June 2021, Sue Willman, Assistant Director and Supervising Solicitor of King’s Legal Clinic and Senior Consultant at Deighton Pierce Glynn, won a judicial review against the Home Office in the High Court over housing for asylum seekers in the Napier Barracks in Folkstone, Kent. The case centred on a claim brought forward by six asylum seekers accommodated in the barracks between September 2020 and February 2021.
King's win two awards at the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2021
Now in their 15th year, the awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by law students and law schools. We are delighted to announce that King’s student Amanda Ignatia won Best individual contribution and the King’s Protea Clinic won Best new pro bono activity at the 2021 LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards. We are very proud to have our students work recognised and celebrated.
King's student and Legal Clinic shortlisted for the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2021
The LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards, taking place on 12 May 2021, recognise and celebrate the outstanding pro bono work undertaken by law schools and law students across the UK. Final year King’s LLB student, Amanda Ignatia, has been shortlisted for Best Contribution by an Individual Student.
New Clinics in Human Rights & Environment and Intellectual Property
What do Amnesty International and a London based start-up have in common? They are just two of the many clients that King’s Legal Clinic has advised since opening its doors in 2017. King’s Legal Clinic works to enhance the education of our law students and promote social and economic justice. Students work under the guidance of qualified lawyers to provide pro bono work in support of a wide range of clients, offering free legal advice to those in need.
Legal Clinic conducts research to defend Colombian indigenous peoples and environment
The Linea Negra encircles 348 sacred sites that are considered the “Heart of the World” for the region’s four indigenous tribes: Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankumano. Their ancestral territory also has global environmental importance, containing the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a coastal mountain range rich in biodiversity. In 2018, the Colombian President signed a decree granting special protections to the indigenous communities and nature within the Linea Negra.
Colombia Caravana’s enduring relevance
The work of the caravana is more important than ever to help lawyers withstand the global onslaught on civil liberties. The prospect of peace in Colombia after 60 years of a civil war which has seen hundreds of thousands killed ought to be good news, but it turns out to be complicated.
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