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, Friday 10am to 12pm. 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. 

Welfare benefits advice

Telephone 020 7831 7079 and leave a message.

Pro bono advice

Please complete one of our online forms when they are back online from 3 August.

Alternatively, you may want to contact LawWorks for other pro bono services, Find a legal advice clinic near you | LawWorks

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