Kent Law Clinic, the University’s pro-bono legal service, has won the Ethical Initiative of the Year award at the Lawyer Awards 2014.
The Clinic secured first place in a category featuring a host of well-known international law firms.
Announced at the 20th anniversary edition of the Lawyer Awards on 25 June, the award recognises the work carried out by the Clinic’s staff and students in its immigration and asylum team. This included supporting individuals with asylum claims, working with refugee support groups such as Kent Refugee Help and Kent Refugee Action Network, and conducting research into the treatment of unaccompanied minors who apply for asylum.
Clinic solicitor Sheona York and research assistant Richard Warren were presented the award by celebrity compere Joanna Lumley. A number of Kent students from the team also joined them on stage at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel in front of over 1,400 lawyers.
For more information about Kent Law Clinic, which is a partnership between the University’s law students and academics, as well as solicitors and barristers in practice locally, visit: www.kent.ac.uk/law/clinic
The Clinic received international attention earlier this year for a case that secured UK asylum on religious grounds for an Afghan citizen who was an atheist. The case was believed to be the first of its kind.
For more information contact Katie Newton.