Vacancies in the Legal Aid Sector

North East Law Centre is looking for an experienced Solicitor to join their dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional seeking a senior management role within a fast‑paced, mission‑driven organisation. As the only Law Centre in the North East, they offer a rare chance to contribute to the Law Centre movement and help shape the future of their services—delivering meaningful, tangible support to the people who need it most.

The successful candidate must be an experienced Immigration Solicitor with a minimum of 5 years PQE, with IAAS accredited at Level 2 Senior Caseworker Level and also hold Supervisor status. Excellent knowledge of UK asylum and immigration law, policies and practice; excellent advocacy, verbal, drafting and interpersonal skills; high standard of client care; good organisational skills; ability to produce consistently high-quality work as he/she will be expected to manage his/her own workload. 

Coram Children’s Legal Centre is recruiting a Legal and Policy Intern. The role will create an opportunity to develop key skills for a range of future careers, whilst also holding an important role in the team.

The main purposes of the role are:

• To work with the Coram Children’s Legal Centre Senior Project Officer to support their legal administrative and legal education work.
• To assist in the drafting of legally accurate public legal information including for Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s website;
• To support Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s policy influencing work under the direction of the Senior Project Officer.

Part of the Coram group, Coram Children’s Legal Centre is the UK’s leading children’s legal charity. They are committed to promoting children’s rights in the UK and worldwide. They provide free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as training and consultancy on child law and children’s rights.

Hopkin Murray Beskine is recruiting a paralegal to assist their busy housing and public law team. Paralegals in their housing and public law team provide support in a range of interesting work, including judicial review, housing possession and disrepair claims in the County Court, and homelessness challenges and appeals. They have excellent resources including a modern practice management system, which you will be trained to use. You will also receive training to use the Legal Aid Agency’s online client management system for civil and family cases (CCMS). The role will also include providing some administrative support and some reception cover.

Hopkin Murray Beskine is a long-established Islington firm with clients from across London and beyond. They have a thriving legal aid practice alongside privately funded work. Their solicitors are leaders in their fields, and they are recommended by the Chambers UK and Legal 500 guides

Asylum Aid is recruiting a practising solicitor with substantial experience of litigation. This is a maternity cover for a period of 12 months with the possibility of extension.

For over thirty years, Asylum Aid has been providing legal representation to some of the most vulnerable people seeking asylum. They have built an expert service, delivering vital and life-saving services in some of the most complex legal cases, with a particular speciality working with unaccompanied children, survivors of trafficking, torture or other forms of human cruelty, and stateless people. Their vision is that all those in need of protection from persecution and other forms of human cruelty in the UK can obtain it, and are treated fairly and with dignity.

Shelter Cymru is looking for a remote housing law caseworker. The post holder will provide advice and a full end-to-end casework service via pre-booked telephone appointments to people across Wales, depending on where the need is at the time. The post will help to support the regional Community Housing Advice Service teams at times of reduced capacity (for example, due to staff vacancies) or due to excessive demand.

Shelter Cymru exists to defend the right to a safe home in Wales. They help thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency by offering free, confidential and independent advice. When necessary they constructively challenge on behalf of people to ensure they are properly assisted and to improve practice and learning.

Shelter Cymru is looking for a Housing Law Caseworker. The post holder will be part of a team who provide a National Housing Advice Service through a mixture of centre, court and surgery-based services across North West Wales

Shelter Cymru exists to defend the right to a safe home in Wales. They help thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency by offering free, confidential and independent advice. When necessary they constructively challenge on behalf of people to ensure they are properly assisted and to improve practice and learning.

Shelter Cymru is looking for a Court Duty Scheme Housing Law Caseworker to deliver court duty sessions and provide follow-up advice services as required across the Cardiff, Vale and Valleys region, (which includes Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff and South Powys).

Shelter Cymru exists to defend the right to a safe home in Wales. They help thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency by offering free, confidential and independent advice. When necessary they constructively challenge on behalf of people to ensure they are properly assisted and to improve practice and learning.

ATLEU is recruiting a Public Lawyer for a 12-month post, based in either their London or Sheffield office.This is a maternity cover role for 12 months, working 21 hours a week. You will have at least two years PQE and be an authorised litigator. This role will let you take on a small caseload of interesting public law casework, working with survivors of trafficking. You will be working alongside two paralegals, one public law and immigration solicitor who is their Head of Unit and Strategic Litigation Lead, and a housing solicitor with a focus on migrant support public law cases.

ATLEU is the only UK charity that provides specialist, holistic legal advice to survivors of trafficking and slavery.

Simpson Millar are looking for a Grade A/B Solicitor to join their Public Law and Human Rights team in London. They are looking for someone with strong experience in human rights and public law work, including Civil Claims against public authorities and Inquest work, who is passionate about representing vulnerable clients and contributing to a collaborative, ambitious team environment.

The role offers the opportunity to work on complex and meaningful cases alongside a highly experienced team, with genuine scope for development and progression.If you are interested, or would like a confidential discussion and further information, please get in touch with Shalini Patel