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The importance of pro bono lawyering

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Date:6 NOV 2014
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Family Law


Maeve O’Rourke  Barrister Thomas Bingham Chambers

The below article was originally published in August Family Law and has been made available free of charge for National Pro Bono Week.
Family law is the area in which the Bar Pro Bono Unit is seeing the greatest number of applications for assistance. Demand is growing steadily with the Unit finding it increasingly difficult to place all of its accepted cases in

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