Community Legal Education
Welcome to PILA's community legal education page. Community legal education is one of the core components of public interest law. This involves a range of measures to 'demystify' the law and to raise awareness of the law amongst marginalised and disadvantaged people. Examples include the provision of information materials (in print or on-line), community legal education projects, training, 'Street Law' programmes in the USA and elsewhere where law students deliver legal education to members of the public.
PILA works on community legal education through our pro bono referral scheme by matching the need for education in NGOs and community organisations with legal expertise on our lawyers' register. Legal education sessions are designed and organised following consultation with NGOs on what type of sessions they require and what specfic queries they would like answered.
For more information on how to access legal help and PILA's lawyers' register click here.
To access the materials from the legal education sessions PILA has organised to date click here.