What Our Students Do

Norfolk Community Law Service

Around 50 students per year volunteer with NCLS across a range of advice services including welfare benefits; debt; domestic abuse; family law; employment and discrimination; and immigration; as well as the legal support service which triages the other services. Students are key members of each service, working directly with members of the public and local solicitors.

Street Law

Street Law is a community outreach programme that sees our students developing their knowledge and experience by delivering a wide range of awareness-raising sessions on legal issues in local schools and community groups, and at university open days and ‘Law taster' events' on campus. Street Law offers students the chance to develop their legal learning and their team-working and communication skills by introducing legal issues to a wider audience. The audience can experience the law for themselves via a range of fun-filled activities including mock trials, quizzes and game shows. It is run in conjunction with UEA’s outreach team.

Justice Project

The Justice Project is run by Louise Shorter, the founder of Inside Justice and who was formerly involved in Rough Justice, a pioneering documentary series. She makes documentaries about potential miscarriages of justice. This project gives students the opportunity to investigate real life cases where long-term prisoners maintaining their innocence of serious crimes of which they have been convicted. Through re-examining evidence and trying to find new lines of enquiry, you could be working on some of the Justice Project’s serious criminal cases, potentially changing the course of someone’s life.

Shelter

Shelter is a well-known housing and homelessness charity working with vulnerable people facing housing insecurity. Students train as housing advisers.

Norfolk Community Foundation

This is a charity that provides advice and funds to community organisations and small charities that seek to provide a better way of life in Norfolk. As and when required, we will offer students discrete, short-term projects writing advice guides and toolkits on areas requested by the Foundation.

Street Law

Street Law is a community outreach programme that sees our students developing their knowledge and experience by delivering a wide range of awareness-raising sessions on legal issues in local schools and community groups, and at university open days and ‘Law taster' events' on campus. Street Law offers students the chance to develop their legal learning and their team-working and communication skills by introducing legal issues to a wider audience. The audience can experience the law for themselves via a range of fun-filled activities including mock trials, quizzes and game shows. It is run in conjunction with UEA’s outreach team.

The Business Law Clinic

This is a project that sees students helping start-ups and small businesses as part of UEA’s civic university project and Small Business Charter. Our partners are solicitors Birketts LLP and a Menta, which provide small business support and training across East Anglia. Students have the opportunity to observe and help with advice and training, as well as work on ad hoc projects for Norfolk Community Foundation.