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On 1 August 2023, the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service launched in England and Wales, [10] providing free legal representation and advice regardless of income for renters and homeowners who are facing illegal eviction, poor housing conditions, and late rent or mortgage payments. [11] The program was expected to assist 38,000 people per ...
The General Extension Division (as it was originally named) was founded in 1913 University President George Edgar Vincent, to provide ongoing education to adult learners. [2] [3] [4] Over the years since then it has had various names including the College of Continuing Education and Extension, and University College. Throughout the years, the ...
A legal clinic (also law clinic or law-school clinic) is a legal aid or law-school program providing services to various clients and often hands-on legal experience to law students. Clinics are usually directed by clinical professors. [1] Legal clinics typically conduct pro bono work, providing free legal services to clients.
Civil legal aid is not guaranteed under federal law, but is provided by a variety of public interest law firms and community legal clinics for free or at reduced cost. [1] Other forms of civil legal aid are available through federally-funded legal services, pro bono lawyers, and private volunteers. [1] [2]
Continuing legal education required of members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to ensure that throughout their career, they keep abreast with law and jurisprudence, maintain the ethics of the profession and enhance the standards of the practice of law (Rule 1, Bar Matter No. 850 – Supreme Court of the Philippines)
As the country was seeing a transition from apprenticeship to formal law school education, [2] a New York City lawyer by the name of Harold P. Seligson recognized the need for practical training in law and originated a series of lectures called the "Practising Law Courses." These lectures would be the germination of the full-fledged Institute ...
Landlord–tenant law governs the rights and responsibilities of leasehold estates, like in an apartment complex. Landlord–tenant law is the field of law that deals with the rights and duties of landlords and tenants. In common law legal systems such as Irish law, landlord–tenant law includes elements of the common law of real property and ...
In the United Kingdom, Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education was founded in 1878, [5] and the Institute of Continuing Education of Cambridge University dates to the 1873. [ 6 ] In the United States, the Chautauqua Institution , originally the Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly, was founded in 1874 "as an educational ...