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National Pro Bono Week - how was it for you?
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The first session of the Bristol pro bono family scheme
Judi Evans Barristers St John's ChambersLast week was
National Pro Bono Week and it coincided with the launch of the
Bristol Pro Bono Family Scheme. I'd like to say it was a perfectly orchestrated plan but in truth the pro bono scheme took a long time to set up (over a year) and so it was rather by accident than design that the launch on 5 November fell within National Pro Bono Week.
How was it? Only time and feedback will tell I guess.
Will it help LiPs who cannot afford legal advice to summon the courage to enter a Court room without a lawyer and give them some sort of road map as to where they and their children need to be headed along with a small degree of realism? I hope so.
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