The latest news from Hackney Community Law Centre

Immigration Telephone Advice Line – cancelled for Friday 30th July 2010

Unfortunately the Immigration telephone advice session planned for this Friday, 30th July 2010 10.00 – 1.00pm has had to be cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The latest news from Hackney Community Law Centre

Launch of new Immigration Telephone Advice Service – 21 July 2010

The Legal Services Commission have recently awarded us a contract to continue our Immigration and Asylum work. In order to increase legal advice and access to our specialist service we have launched our new Immigration Telephone Advice Service.

If you have an Immigration or asylum problem, and you require advice you can call 0208 985 8364 on Friday from 10.00am until 1.00pm

Notice for prospective volunteers - 9 July 2010

There has been a huge demand to become a volunteer at the Law Centre. Over the last few months we have been inundated with requests and CV’s – and we want to thank all of you who have expressed an interest. We are currently in the process of interviewing and inducting our new volunteers. Given this, we will not be taking on any new volunteers until October 2010. Therefore if you are interested in becoming a volunteer at HCLC please contact us in September 2010.

Hackney Community Law Centre in The Guardian - 8 June 2010

Juliane Heider, an immigration advisor at the Law Centre was qouted today in a major article in The Guardian - "Don't Delay Deportation Flight, Government Warns Judges" - on government moves to head off a last-minute judicial review calls that could hold up a Baghdad bound plane. Juliane argued that the requirement for injunctions made it more difficult to appeal against decisions. The full article can be viewed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/08/judges-deportation-flight-baghdad

Support Hackney Migrant Centre

HMC is a free drop-in advice service, open to all migrants and refugees There is a delicious meal to share with the volunteers and an opportunity to seek advice and support, freely and for nothing, from both a specialist immigration and a welfare advisor. There is a chance to talk to a Health worker, who will guide our visitors through to NHS services and help with prescription charges. There are volunteers who will make supportive phone calls to relevant Governmental departments, chase lawyers, and follow up missing benefits etc. They will translate into a dozen different languages from Amharic to Portuguese.

HMC provides these services for free as most of our visitors are destitute and have no access to public funds. They are hidden people, fighting for the right to stay in UK.

HMC desperately needs financial support to be able to continue providing our service to these vulnerable individuals.
Please consider a donation to help these people who cannot find help anywhere else.

For further information about the services HMC offers: visit www.hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk

Make a donation or set-up a standing order here

Hackney Migrant Centre c/o St. Mary’s Church, Spensley Walk,Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES, Tel: 07504 332 706 Email: info@hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk
Web: www.hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk

The London Legal Walk - A Fundraiser

We are walking on the 17th May on the 2010 London Legal walk to raise desperately needed funds for Hackney Community Law Centre.

Our Law Centre helps the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Hackney and our social welfare law service helps to reduce poverty, homelessness and debt - which, in a time of recession, is ever more crucial. In everything we do we strive to tackle exclusion, challenge discrimination and combat exploitation.

Our Law Centre is dangerously short of funds to maintain those services and we need your help. Please support our walkers as generously as you are able.

Visit the link http://www.justgiving.com/Hackney-Law-Centre to make a donation.