TURNING LAW INTO JUSTICE®

JAFLAS Dr Alan Blacker & Co. CIC.

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A recognised not-for-profit Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales with the regulator for Community Interest Companies number 14277484. We are licensed to help under the government's Money and Pensions Service including debt and insolvency advice.

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We remember with love and affection

Paul O'Grady

, advocate, performer and all round good egg.

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Still here - Still serving

 0203 47 999 57 

Our office number

Business hours

Mon-Thur 9 am - 5 pm Fri 10 am - 2 pm.

Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6 pm till 7:30 pm and NEW! Saturdays from Noon till 4 pm

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Must give fifteen minutes notice of booking

 

Out of hours 07981 527693

25 years of service to the most vulnerable and charities

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In February 2023 we helped  26 new people and acted on 7 instructions from 3 countries.

 

We are a multidiscipline legal advice centre, providing professional legal care to companies, charities, not-for-profits and private individuals.

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In order to make justice accessible, we offer free legal help to eligible pensioners, the disabled, the ill, the incarcerated, and veterans. A pension or benefit appeal, a criminal matter, contact or educational issues, or any other issue concerning the elderly, disabled, or those who are vulnerable due to poverty, social exclusion or marginalisation, could fall under this heading.

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We provide top-rank services to commercial clients too. 

We represent over one hundred and fifty businesses, as in-house counsel.  From airlines to aerial fitters to train companies to medical research new starts.

 

Over twenty thousand people (in total) have been helped by us to achieve justice in their lives and to achieve real and effective change and we have represented over eleven thousand clients to date.

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We are proud to have won first place in the Leading Regional Providers of Pro Bono Legal Services in the Northern Enterprise Awards and this marks a high demand for our services coupled with excellent overall client service.

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The judges said "Our panel considers carefully the voting and nomination information and any additional that our internal research team has come across both online and in the public domain.

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In order to be awarded, there must be evidence of expertise within a given field; dedication to customer/client service, satisfaction and retention; and an ongoing commitment to providing excellent work. "

 

We are the nations leading Legal Advice Service for those who are vulnerable or who work with the socially marginalised—helping disabled individuals or charities.

WINNER!

Leading Regional Providers of Pro Bono Legal Services 2022 in the Northern Enterprise Awards 2022 hosted by SME News!

 

Some of the areas we cover for legal clients:

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• Medical Law and Personal Injury

• Criminal Defence

• Civil Legal Advice and Litigation

• Debts on the verge or in legal stages

• Police law, actions against the police

• Family law, protecting property and enforcing rights.

• Disputes over wills and estates

• Welfare benefits and tribunals

• Education law, schools, colleges, universities 

• Employment law and consultancy contracts

• Children and Child Protection

• Special Educational Needs

• Mental health and disability rights 

• Charity law 

• Commercial law

• Commercial dispute resolution

• Settling estates and tax planning

• Trusts and Probate

• Business restructuring and insolvency

• Debt and welfare benefits

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We provide a comprehensive litigation and advice service covering all civil and criminal areas of law.

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Ask us about the new mobile phone in cars rules and receive a free booklet.

Wrongly clocked at 111mph - we saved the driver's licence with the case dismissed.

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JAFLAS Dr Alan Blacker & Co CIC

was declared the winner in the Legal Advice Firm Catagory

beating 190 other contestants!

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Business Reorganisation and Insolvency Service

For all types of commercial enterprises and use the best practitioners from around the UK to help restructure and save corporations from closure - saving businesses means saving jobs means saving futures. We also act for claimants seeking to enforce against corporations.  

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We also arrange valuations, mergers and all manner of commercial litigation including unfair prejudice to shareholders' actions.

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Specialist Benefit Appeal Unit

For help with assessing your prospects of success in making

** Mandatory Reconsideration applications **

 ** Applications out of time **

** Appeal to the First-Tier Tribunal **

** Applications for leave to appeal to the Upper Tier  Tribunal **

** Upper-tier Tribunals **

Ask for help now - don't delay.

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We are licensed by the

Governments Money and Pensions Service

to provide specialist Debt  Advice, including the writing off of debt and preventing or representing people during bankruptcy.

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An independent consumer ombudsman and civil arbitration scheme as well as mediation and conciliation services, we also provide FDR valuations and independent mediation.

We offer: -

mediation, a third party facilitating a resolution;

arbitration, a third party deciding the dispute;

early neutral evaluation, a third party giving an informed opinion on the dispute; and

Ombudsmen schemes.

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JAFLAS Dr Alan Blacker & Co CIC is an approved referral agency from SSAFA Forces Help and receives support from caseworkers from other serving personnel charities and many other veterans charities.

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We provide services on a range of pro bono, traditional and after-the-event funding agreements and a range of variations in between to suit your needs.

 

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CICs are the new exciting way for charitable and not-for-profit concerns to function without having to have two bodies, and we have exploited this new framework to provide you with better service. We are still regulated and our assets are still locked into community interests.

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