What We Do
The South African legal system can only be effective if it is accessible and credible in the eyes of the ordinary citizen. The Law Clinic is ideally situated to extend access to justice to the poor and marginalised.
The Law Clinic, situated at 18-24 Crozier Street, Stellenbosch, operates as a fully-fledged attorneys’ office, delivering legal services to the poor and marginalised, whilst at the same time training final year law students and candidate legal practitioners in the practical application of the law. The attorneys and candidate legal practitioners appear in various litigious forums in the Boland. The Clinic also nurtures a culture of civil responsibility by conducting workshops on Constitutional rights, evictions, debt relief and family violence.
The Clinic also provides back-up legal services to the Ceres, Worcester and Bishop Lavis satellite offices. Poor and marginalised people are assisted by staff of the Law Clinic with a wide variety of civil matters such as evictions, divorce matters, family law, general civil matters and wills. The Law Clinic has a specialized focus on farm evictions, currently one of the most important legal issues in the Boland region. Evictions and consequential homelessness are a real threat to the human rights of farm workers and their children. They become outcasts with little hope of finding homes and protecting their family life.