Helping our community access legal advice with Islington Law Centre

To help residents in our local community access legal advice, we provide financial donations and pro bono support to the Islington Law Centre (ILC). It is one of our longest running pro bono partnerships.

The ILC’s experienced solicitors and caseworkers provide essential advice and other legal services with the help of volunteers. The centre offers both in-person and telephone advice services, and each year supports over 1,000 clients. 

Working with specialist supervisors, our volunteers participate in weekly, in-person legal clinics to advise individuals on a range of areas, including landlord and tenant disputes, housing disrepair and consumer law. In 2022-2023, the ILC advised local residents in over 250 appointments at their Evening Advice Clinic.

"The pro bono clinics provide a unique and vital service to local residents who can often be vulnerable and unsure of their legal rights. We are grateful for volunteer lawyers from firms like Slaughter and May, who enable us to provide a specialist and personalised service and help our service users to navigate what can often be complex legal systems."

Matthew Brown, Deputy Director, Islington Law Centre