Walking clinics

Lawyers including the lord chief justice and the senior president of tribunals have got to their feet to raise more than £50,000 for their local legal charities. Participants in Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham, Brighton and Leeds raised funds for legal advice centres and the national development of an access to justice foundation. Bob Nightingale, chief executive of the London Legal Support Trust, says that the importance of providing support for the legal voluntary sector cannot be underestimated: “The walks provide the first step in the process of the voluntary legal sector in doing such a great job of preventing poverty, resolving debt, challenging discrimination and combating exploitation.”