LawWorks announces winners of Student Pro Bono Awards 2024

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LawWorks has announced the winners of the 18th LawWorks and Attorney General’s Student Pro Bono Awards, sponsored by LexisNexis. The awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by students and law schools.

Read this news story to find out more about the nominees.

The awards were presented on 9 May at the House of Lords, with the support of the Attorney General, the Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC MP, who said: “Pro bono work is vitally important. It benefits both the people who receive it and the lawyers that donate their valuable time to deliver it.

“Congratulations to all the nominees who were put forward in some excellent entries – the future of the profession is in safe hands."

The winners are:

• best new pro bono activity – Reach out to Survivors: Domestic Abuse, University of Chester;
• best contribution by an individual – Jekaterina Bodnarchuk, Hertfordshire Law School;
• best contribution by a law school –University of Bristol Law School, University of Bristol; and
• best contribution by a team of students – the Justice Bus Project: Hertfordshire Law School, the University of Hertfordshire, and the Rights of Nature Toolkit: Rivers Project, the Human Rights Environmental Law Clinic, King’s College London.

The University of Huddersfield was announced as the winner of the Law School Challenge, which is an initiative designed to raise funds for LawWorks and Advocate.

The judges for the 2024 awards were:

• Nick Emmerson, president, the Law Society;
• Peter Farr, head of civil law policy, Ministry of Justice;
• James Harper, executive sponsor, Rule of Law and CSR for LexisNexis UK & Ireland;
• Olivia Partridge, content manager, LawCareers.Net;
• Samantha Singer, joint chair of the Bar Council Pro Bono and Social Responsibility Committee; and
• Deborah Smith, executive director and senior counsel, Goldman Sachs and LawWorks Trustee.

Alasdair Douglas, chair of LawWorks, said: “On behalf of LawWorks I would like to give a giant thank you to the students and law schools for their hard work and commitment to pro bono, and the positive impact it makes to many individuals, families and communities across the UK.”

For further information on the Student Pro Bono Awards, visit: www.lawworks.org.uk/student-awards.