Community Legal Services
Our Team
Full Credential Description
Sibon opened the first United Legal Access clinic in Nottingham, principally to advise those who needed help with making applications for the Windrush Compensation Scheme. The second clinic was opened up at the High Commission of Barbados where she would travel once a fortnight to advise individuals with similar issues. It became apparent through these sessions that many of the people she was seeing needed help on issues such as housing and employment too. Following a move to Birmingham, LawWorks put Sibon in touch with the community centre called Free@Last in Nechells, one of the most deprived areas in the UK, where she started holding legal advice sessions every Tuesday for the local community, many of who were migrants or socially excluded. The onset of the COVID-19 lockdown crisis prompted her into offering legal services either online or, for the more difficult cases, on the telephone or through online video platforms. In April 2020 alone, with the help of other volunteer solicitors, the clinic dealt with 49 enquiries. A case which demonstrates the impact that United Legal Access has is that of Albert Johnson (known as Pretty), a 90 year old who came from Jamaica to the UK to work here in the 1950s. He was only able to obtain a British passport in 2018 because previously he had had no documents to prove his status.
Qualifications & Expertise
Law Society Accredited Pro Bono Charity