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2. Community Legal Advice - Wikipedia

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   Community Legal Advice is a government-funded advice service in the United Kingdom set up by the Legal Services Commission as part of the Community Legal Service. It aims to help people in England and Wales deal with civil legal problems, and is part of the legal aid programme in those nations.

3. Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 - Wikipedia

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   The Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 51) was a British act of Parliament which extended the welfare state so that those unable to pay for a solicitor were able to access free legal help. [1] It set up the first ever state funded legal aid system in the UK.

4. Legal Ombudsman - Wikipedia

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   The Legal Ombudsman is an ombudsman service that opened in October 2010. [1] It is a free service that investigates complaints about lawyers in England and Wales.The Legal Ombudsman was set up as a result of the Legal Services Act 2007 [2] and took over from the Legal Complaints Service and other legal complaint-handling bodies.

5. Legal advice - Wikipedia

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   Legal advice is the giving of a professional or formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law in relation to a particular factual situation. The provision of legal advice will often involve analyzing a set of facts and advising a person to take a specific course of action based on the applicable law.

6. Pro bono - Wikipedia

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   Pro bono publico (English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term traditionally referred to provision of legal services by legal professionals for people who are unable to afford them.

7. Law centre - Wikipedia

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   The law centre movement began in the UK in the early 1970s, influenced by the growth of "neighbourhood law offices" in the United States legal aid had been available in the UK since 1949, but there were few legal practices in deprived areas and few lawyers who specialised in the areas of law most relevant to poor and disadvantaged people such as housing and welfare rights.