The City Law School has joined forces with civil liberties group Liberty to launch a pro bono human rights advice clinic.

The clinic, due to go live imminently, will give student solicitors and barristers a platform from which to advise members of the public on a wide range of real life human rights issues.

City Law School’s pro bono director Sarwan Singh said: ‘We are delighted to have joined forces with Liberty, in an arrangement that will allow our students to hone the skills they learn here, while also training them in the important area of human rights law.’

Meanwhile, students from City Law School have teamed up with the Supreme Court to launch a volunteering project, Big Voice 2011, that aims to encourage disadvantaged young Londoners to engage with the UK legal system. The project, launched earlier this month and expected to last a year, will focus on issues of legal identity and access to justice.

At the project’s end, the participants will help draft a paper for publication comparing the legal systems in the UK and in post-apartheid South Africa.