Legal Charity Assistant - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you looking for experience in Civil and Family Court, as well as a range of other areas of law?

Would you like to develop your leadership skills?

Are you currently studying an LLB course with Nottingham Law School?

Will you have successfully completed your second year of a qualifying law degree by September 2023?
NTU prides itself on providing our students with excellent placement experiences. Our placements give you hands on experience, allowing you to develop your knowledge and skills. You can help shape our services to make a real difference. See NTU from a different point of view and join us for your placement.

For more student placement opportunities visit our Jobs Portal
or InPlace.

What you'll do:

Here at NTU we're proud to offer placement opportunities to our students and are looking to recruit a
Legal Charity Assistant to work in our Support Through Court Nottingham Team based at Nottingham Law School.

Support Through Court Nottingham offers support and guidance before, during, and after court for those without support and facing court alone.

Working directly alongside the STCN Service Manager where you will:

Provide support to clients and other STCN volunteers
Provide pivotal support to the administrative team, with new enquiries and student recruitment
Marketing, social media and general administration

Anticipated start date:
September 2023

Interview Date:
w/c 27 March 2023

Support Through Court Nottingham:

Every year, thousands of people in the UK face court alone.

Without help, they have to represent themselves while they go through a divorce, seek custody of their children, defend or put forward a personal injury claim or face eviction from their home.

They are forced to navigate a complex legal system alone, often against the professional legal representation of the other party.

The increase in cuts to legal aid over recent years has meant that thousands more people face the civil or family courts alone.

Their access to justice is limited by how overwhelming the legal system can be to those who have never faced it before, and many struggle to represent themselves effectively in court.

STCN, a formal partner of NTU, ensures that those facing court alone feel prepared and supported in accessing justice. Nationally, we supported nearly 50,000 clients navigating the justice system alone in 2021/22, 2000 of those were in Nottingham.

About NTU:

Please note that this role is only open to NTU students. Applications from those not a current student at NTU will not be considered.

Please note that this role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.