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Essay On Legal Clinic

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I have finally reached the last training session before the legal clinic goes live next week. This session focused on a quick revision of material we covered last year in our Property Law and Land Law models; the information gathered here will aid me in identifying and researching issues, and thus enabling me to write my letters of advice. First, we were introduced to the different types of homeless people; these being street homeless, hidden homeless, threatened homeless, and emergency homeless. Being in the housing clinic, it is possible that we will have clients who are, or are about to be made, homeless. In order for the local housing authority to have a duty to provide assistance to someone, they must be declared statutory …show more content…

Throughout the course of my life I have been exposed to many homeless people, however I have never made an effort to communicate with any of these people. Thinking about how this can be a common enquiry makes me disappointed in myself, since I have never really tried to understand what situation they might be going through. Often many people, including myself, walk past homeless people and continue with their day, acknowledging them as much as we would a park bench or a tree. They are, regrettably, often treated as simply part of the wider background around us. I read an article last year produced by the Guardian, whereby a reporter slept rough across the UK in an attempt to assess why the homeless situation has become so bad (Mark Rice-Oxley (2016)). One of the homeless people that the reporter met was only seventeen years old. To think that someone younger than myself is denied her most basic human rights is deeply saddening. I think back to all of the times me and my housemates complain that our house is too cold. This problem seems miniscule compared to hers. It is for this reason that I look forward to being able to help someone who is facing such difficulties. Being exposed to these problems will enable me to grow as a person, and to become more empathetic to those who do not have it as easy as myself. Many of the homeless people that were spoken to by the

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