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Gateshead Community Legal Advice Centre

Gateshead Community Legal Advice Centre opened its doors in April 2007.

The Centre is the first in a series of new services being established in England and Wales for people with the greatest need of legal advice services.

Gateshead Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and Gateshead Law Centre joined forces to win a contract to run the new service. They are joined by three law firms, Swinburne and Jackson, Ben Hoare Bell, and David Gray and Company, who will supply additional services through the centre.

The Centre provides face-to-face legal advice services – from basic advice to specialist representation – on a wide range of social welfare and family problems, which are often related.

The Centre offers:
· a general help service;
· specialist advice services in community care, debt, employment, housing, family, mental health, and welfare benefits;
· representation at United Appeals Tribunals and Employment Tribunals.

The same range of services will also be available through several outreach venues throughout Gateshead.

The Centre brings together civil legal aid, funded by the Legal Services Commission (LSC), with social welfare services, funded by Gateshead Council, to provide more coordinated and cost-effective services and to tackle the common causes of recurring problems.

Contact
Gateshead Legal Advice Centre
Drop-in and Appointment Service

5 Regent Terrace
Gateshead
NE8 1LU

Tel: 0191 478 5100
Fax: 0191 477 4922

Item updated: 11 May 2007

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Item updated: 24 January 2007