Frontline Hackney- A day in the life of the Law

Xenophobia Basil came to the UK as an unaccompanied minor from Jamaica, fleeing death threats because of his sexuality. He claims asy...

Being young in the real legal profession (social welfare law) must be a lot like being young elsewhere in the UK at the moment. The chanc...

When he was on patrol in Iraq Ryan stepped on the landmine that blew his leg off. Five years down the line he has courage, but his brai...

Angela was turned out of her hostel by social services on a Friday last autumn with her baby of 6 months. The skies in Homerton opened an...

At 10:45 Jim will be evicted. The minute hand on the clock hanging in the Court ticks to 10:46. Jim was a bad lad, or a lost soul. A pos...

Mary is frightened of her husband.   Lord knows he’s no saint. Vlad (as we shall call him) works   as a self- employed   builder, or a pl...

It’s early on the bus from Haringey to Hackney. Valentine crams on the double-decker with five schoolchildren in uniform and neck-ties, chat...