Unique service offers support for people in family courts
Vulnerable people who do not have access to legal advice in a North East family court are being given support thanks to Teesside University law students. Teesside University Law Clinic will have a base at family court sessions at Middlesbrough Family Court to offer emotional support and procedural advice to people who are representing themselves in private law family cases. The initiative is the one of only two similar schemes in the whole country and the only one in the North of England. The Law Clinic, which offers free community legal services, has been given special