Know your Rights and other talks

A free 1-hour informational talk (see list of examples below) delivered by a legal volunteer or solicitor.

We provide online and in-person talks covering legal issues affecting communities.

This includes topics such as:

– Social Welfare (Entitlements and appeals)

– Housing (Types of Social Housing Supports, Assessment of Eligibility)

– Education (School exclusions, reduced timetables)

– Wills and Probate

– Safety Orders

– Legal Aid Board overview

– Custody and Guardianship

– Mediation Service overview

– Custody and Guardianship

– Environmental Law (Minimum Housing Standards)

– Community Law and Mediation Legal Clinic overview

All of our talks are delivered by trainers with legal experience, including CLM’s own expert solicitors, as well as legal volunteers.

Visit our Meet the Team page to learn more about our team.

Anyone can request a talk! Below are some examples of groups we regularly deliver talks with:

– Family Resource Centres.

– Addiction support groups.

– Organisations working with victims and survivors of domestic violence.

– Schools & Universities.

– Senior citizen groups.

– Youth Services.

– Resident Committees.

We often encounter a lack of awareness of how the law can assist in situations of homelessness or refusal of social welfare, issues that are critical to social inclusion as they most affect a person’s ability to participate fully in society.

For that reason, access to justice begins long before anyone steps inside a courtroom, it begins with creating an awareness of rights and the law so that the community are empowered to use the law to enforce those rights.

If you have a group who you would like us to give a talk to, please email:
caseworker@communitylawandmediation.ie