Type of Law and Area

We provide specialist legal advice, casework and representation in Employment, Housing, Asylum/Immigration and Welfare Rights Law, mainly for people who live
or work in the London Borough of Southwark.

Our 2018 AGM will take place on Thursday 1^st November at Bells Gardens Community Centre, SE15 6UJ. Registration is at 5.45pm. Click here to see the invitation for the meeting.

We are also setting up a new legal advice service in Lewisham in partnership with Citizens Advice Lewisham. Initially we are able to provide specialist Housing advice, and some employment casework.

Our Service

We do not provide a drop in service or provide general information for the public.   We take referrals from other agencies - for example, advice centres, councillors, social workers and community groups. To make a referral or discuss a case please ring 0207 732 2008 (Telephone hours: 9.30 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5.30 pm). We have a duty immigration solicitor from Monday to Thursdays and a duty housing solicitor from Monday to Fridays who is able to speak to other agencies. Frontline workers can telephone for consultancy on welfare rights issues on Tuesdays between 10am and 1pm and Wednesdays between 10 am and 3 pm.

We provide an employment law telephone consultancy on Monday mornings from
10 am to 1 pm.  Please note that this is only for agencies whose clients live, work
or study in Southwark. If an agency wishes to refer a client to us for employment law advice or representation this can only be done via Southwark Citizens Advice Bureau.

For more information about where to get advice contact your nearest Citizens Advice www.citizensadvice.org.uk. This website also has lots of useful information and downloadable fact sheets. Southwark Legal Advice Network website www.southwarkadvice.org.uk has full information about advice agencies
in Southwark.

Lewisham Law Service

Our major new development has been the setup of a new Law Centre in Lewisham, working in partnership with Citizens Advice Lewisham (CAL). The Lewisham Law Service will be managed and delivered as a project by partnership with Citizens Advice Lewisham.

Lewisham Law Service (LLS) aims to increase access to high quality specialist legal advice for disadvantaged residents in Lewisham. LLS will defend the legal rights of people who cannot afford a lawyer. They are specialists working in their local communities to uphold justice and advance equality.

Please click here or go to the Lewisham Law Service page for more information.

Our organisation

We are a registered charity and are governed by a trustee board of local residents.  

To view our Annual Report please click Annual Report 2017/2018 and our latest audited accounts.

What our Clients have Said

"I would like to say thank you for all the help and advice your service provided. I do not know how I would have coped and managed without your support on more than one occasion."

"Excellent Job has been carried out on my case and I am very happy for that. Please keep it up, well done. Thank you."

"I was very happy with the service I have received and I felt that I was treated well and with respect."  

Privacy Notice

Any personal data you give to the Law Centre, its staff and Volunteers for the purposes of seeking advice will be confidentially and securely stored in accordance with our data retention policy (a copy of which is available on request).  It will be held by the Law Centre as Data Controller and will only be used for the purposes of considering and where appropriate conducting your case. It will not be disclosed to any third parties and will be securely deleted in accordance with our data retention policy.  You have a right to be told what data we hold about you (though you are likely to have provided us with that data) and to have it corrected if it is wrong.  You may have other rights under the data protection legislation and you can find out more about these rights from the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk

 Office of the Immigration Service Commissioners reference is N201000009