Welcome to the Mary Ward Legal Centre

The Mary Ward Legal Centre provides free, independent advice to people who live and work in London to help them access their legal rights and entitlements. We provide specialist advice in housing, welfare benefits and debt. We also provide free legal advice as part of our pro bono clinic in the areas of: employment, housing, small claims, consumer, and family.

Our services are targeted at people on low incomes, and most advice services have specific eligibility criteria. To find out if you are eligible please click on the area of law in which you need advice. If we are not able to help you we will try to signpost you to another agency.

How to access our advice service

Housing advice

We are experiencing high demand and currently have reduced capacity to take on new cases.

Our online enquiry form is available to complete on Mondays. Please complete this form which will assist us to understand and assess your case by helping you to provide the relevant information.

If you do not hear back from us within 5 days, that unfortunately means we are not able to assist you and we would suggest that you contact other advice providers:

• https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/
  • https://advicefinder.turn2us.org.uk/
  • https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/contact-us/contact-us/contact-us/
  • https://www.lawcentres.org.uk/
  • https://england.shelter.org.uk/get_help

Alternatively, if you are unable to complete our online form, you may wish to telephone 020 7831 7079 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am to 12pm (our phone line is currently closed on Wednesdays). Please note that we will only be able to assist you to complete the housing online form on a Monday when the form is live.

 

 

 

Debt advice

Telephone 020 7269 5455 Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm.

For online enquiries please complete the form at this link which will assist us to understand and assess your case by helping you to provide the relevant information. 

Email:debtadvice@marywardlegal.org.uk

Welfare benefits advice

Telephone 020 7831 7079 and leave a message.

Pro bono advice

To access our pro bono service please fill in one of our online forms below:

Pro bono advice, including employment law

To access our pro bono service please fill in one of our online forms below:

For pro bono enquiries, excluding employment law please complete this form

For pro bono employment enquiries – please complete this form here . We do not advise employers.

The pro bono service at Mary Ward Legal Centre can only provide one-off advice on a limited number of enquiries.  If you do not hear back from us within five days, that unfortunately means we are not able to assist you and we would suggest that you contact LawWorks for other pro bono services, Find a legal advice clinic near you | LawWorks

This service is delivered by volunteer advisers as part of our pro bono clinic. Currently the service is delivered by telephone only.  The areas of law covered include: employment, housing, small claims, consumer, and family. To find out more on these sessions visit our page on pro bono advice.

If you have accessibility needs and cannot complete an online form you may telephone 020 7831 7079 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10am to 12pm and leave a message and we will call you back to see if we can assist. (our phone line is currently closed on Wednesdays).

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