Applications are now open for the Immigration and Asylum term 3 project. We are looking to recruit up to 10 student volunteers to the project.

For more information about the project see here.

Deadline to apply: 8pm Monday 28 April 2025.

Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) is excited to announce that we will be collaborating with the Environmental Law Foundation to offer students volunteering opportunities with our new Environmental Law Clinic in Term 2 of the 2024/25 academic year. Students will work to identify legal and policy opportunities to introduce Rights of Nature at a local authority level.

Find out more information about how to apply here.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 28 November by 8pm.

This summer Warwick LinC is offering six part-time paid internship opportunities:

• Strategic Social Justice Internship - Central England Law Centre x 1 internship
• Immigration and Asylum Internship- Central England Law Centre x 2 internships
• Legal Action Group Internship- Legal Action Group x 2 internships
• Legal Information, Research and Evaluation Internship - Law for Life: The Foundation for Public Legal Education x 1 internship

All current and past volunteers with Warwick LinC programmes (Strategic Social Justice Clinic, Immigration and Asylum Clinic, School Exclusions Project, etc) and undergraduate students who have completed the Public Legal Education Module are eligible to apply. You must be based in the UK whilst working as an intern on these projects. For more information on each internship and details of how to apply, see here.

Warwick LinC are looking for students to volunteer as part of our Term 3 project. Over the term you will work to produce resources for practitioners to use when working with homeless refugees. You will undertake a series of research tasks, work with frontline staff and draft documents. We need volunteers that are committed to social justice, able to communicate and work as part of team to help on this project that will make a real difference in the local community.

Read on to find out more about the project and how to apply.

Warwick Law in the Community and Law for Life: The Foundation of Public Legal Education are excited to announce an internship opportunity for past LinC volunteers. Law for Life are looking for two individuals to help prepare a public legal education programme on housing rights aimed at assisting people with disabilities understand their legal rights regarding housing.

 Recruitment is now open for students wishing to work with Warwick Law in the Community’s Strategic Social Justice and Immigration Asylum clinics run with our partner organisation the Central England Law Centre.

Warwick Law in the Community is recruiting for students to take part in the next Strategic Social Justice Clinic project in Term 3.

Led by Dr Maggie O'Brien (University of Warwick) and Carla Clarke (Solicitor with the Central England Law Centre) the SSJC is one of two clinics run by Warwick LinC in partnership with the Central England Law Centre (CELC). It aims to use public law and other rights-based strategies to address systemic disadvantage and achieve effective change. Working in small groups student volunteers receive supervision, guidance and mentorship from the clinic leads. During the course of the clinic students will put legal learning into practice, find creative ways of using the law and develop leadership, communication and organisational skills in the social justice sector.

The focus of the project for Term 3 will be as follows:

All decisions made by public bodies must follow the principles of public law. Where they do not, they can be challenged through a process called judicial review. Before starting a judicial review claim in the courts, an individual should comply with the pre-action protocol process. This is aimed at trying to resolve the dispute without the need to resort to the courts. It involves sending a pre-action letter to the public body setting out the basic facts of the case, the alleged unlawful decision and the grounds of challenge with a specific time frame for a response. In straightforward cases, where the unlawfulness is clear, the pre-action process can often result in the public body amending their decision straightaway.

We will be looking at the judicial review and pre-action protocol process and drafting a template pre-action letter that can be used by staff at Central England Law Centre staff. The template letter is likely to concern delays by the Department of Work and Pensions in making decisions on social security claims

Students will be expected to commit 3 - 5 hours per week during term time and attend regular, weekly meetings usually on a Wednesday around midday.

Key Dates

• An online meeting via Teams will be held on Thursday 26th January at 11am. This will be recorded and students can view it after the meeting
• Students should submit their CV and a Cover Letter of no more than 300 words via email to WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk by midday 6th February
• Interviews for shortlisted applicants will take place on 22nd February

All Warwick Law Students can apply as well as PPL students.

For further information please contact WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk

Warwick Law in the Community (LinC) is pleased to collaborate with the Central England Law Centre (CELC) to offer students exciting volunteering opportunities with the Strategic Social Justice Clinic (SSJC) as well as the Immigration and Asylum Clinic (I&A) this academic year.

Students are welcome to join our MS Teams information session on Monday 3 October 2022 between 2-3pm to learn more about LinC and this year’s opportunities with the team at CELC. The link to join this session will be sent to all Law students via email.

If you have any questions about the opportunities, please email WarwickLinC@warwick.ac.uk

Read more about the opportunities and how to apply here.