Community Legal Education Clinic
The GO Justice Centre works in partnership with local community organisations to deliver programmes of rights-based public legal education. We do this by working to empower communities by developing knowledge and understanding of the law, as well as the confidence and skills to address legal issues.
Students use their legal knowledge and skills to support our partner organisations to design and deliver diverse and creative forms of public legal education. What this looks like will depend on the needs of the partner organisation and the people they support, but could include:
- Legal guides or toolkits
- Workshops
- Audio-visual materials (e.g. podcasts)
- Publications or campaign materials (e.g. blog posts, briefing papers)
- Support for funding applications (e.g. drafting impact reports)
So far, we've developed partnerships with Into University, The Marie Trust and The British Red Cross VOICES Network
Into University
Law students work under the supervision of Cameron Wong-McDermott to deliver sessions to primary school students. Topics include climate justice, children’s rights and access to justice.
The Marie Trust
The Marie Trust is a homelessness charity in Glasgow, which aims to widen access to education and support learners to exit homelessness as part of their employability, recovery, and rehabilitation pathway. Law student volunteers at GO Justice design and deliver a series of workshops at The Marie Trust centre for learners who are keen to access education and use the law. This is the only Community Education Curriculum in Glasgow specifically designed to widen access to mainstream education for homeless people and those at-risk.
British Red Cross VOICES Network
The VOICES network is a collective of refugees and people seeking asylum. Together, they speak out about issues that affect them. As people with lived experience, VOICES Ambassadors share unique insights into what it’s like to seek asylum in the UK and contribute to their communities.
As part of this partnership, our students co-produced a three-part podcast series with British Red Cross VOICES Ambassadors.