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- Clinical Legal Education Organisation Trustees Annual Report: April 2020 April 2021

Charity Name: Clinical Legal Education Organisation
Charity Address: 70 Blenheim Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 9TZ
Charity Registration Number: 1161457

Set out below is a summary of the key events and initiatives organised by the Clinical Legal Education Organisation between 6 April 2020 and 5 April 2021.

Trustee changes

The following trustee stood down in 2020-21:

The trustees note their thanks to Alan.

The following trustees were appointed:

As at April 2021, Lucy Yeatman and Linden Thomas remained co-Chairs of CLEO and Victoria Roper continued in the role of treasurer.

Membership:

Membership of CLEO remains healthy and continues to increase steadily with almost 270 members across around 80 academic institutions

Events:

CLEO organised a number of events between April 2020 and April 2021, many of which were in partnership with other organisations. Due to the pandemic, all events have been conducted virtually:

We also continue to advertise events that are likely to be of interest to our members, such as LawWorks events, the Streetlaw Best Practices events and so on.

Regional networking hubs:

Clinics in the North-West of the country have continued to hold regular meet ups to share good practice, discuss latest clinic developments and catch up with fellow clinicians. These are relatively informal and are held approximately twice a year.

CLEO has continued to offer to facilitate these hubs in other parts of the country.

Qualifying Work Experience (QWE):

CLEO trustees established a working group to liaise with the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) on the development of guidance on the new ‘Qualifying Work Experience’ (QWE) which will come into force with the introduction of the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination.

The SRA invited CLEO to submit comments on draft guidance on QWE. CLEO sought members’ views at a virtual event on 20 May 2020 and the CLEO working group on QWE prepared a response.

Following discussions with the SRA and following QWE events held by both CLEO and LawWorks during 2021, CLEO commenced work on the development of its own guidance which will assist pro bono supervisors in deciding whether the work undertaken in their university clinics/pro bono centres can be counted as QWE. Development of case studies will provide support for those in whose hands this decision lies and enable consistency across institutions, in as far as this is possible.

CLEO and LawWorks Survey

In 2020, CLEO partnered with LawWorks on its latest survey of pro bono undertaken by University law schools and law students. CLEO trustees provided feedback on the survey questions and promoted the survey to its members.

The final report, which was published in December 2020, can be found here: https://www.lawworks.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/LawWorks%20Law%20Schools%20Report%20 2020_0.pdf

The Website:

Work on redevelopment of the website continued and CLEO has a working group of trustees allocated to this project. The priority to date has been resolving and streamlining background functions, such as the processes to registering new membership applications. Work in the coming year will focus on the website content.

CLEO also has a Twitter account (@ClinicalLegal) which provides updates on clinical legal education.

Clinical Legal Education Handbook

The Clinical Legal Education Handbook, which was developed following a discussion at a CLEO conference in 2016 and which contains contributions from over 20 CLEO members was published as a free, open access online resource in May 2020. It has been downloaded more than 2500 times since publication and has been adopted by The Law Society of England & Wales as its recommended text on Clinical Legal Education. Content from the book has also led to the Solicitors Regulation Authority adapting some of its guidance on pro bono work.

The book has also been translated into Persian through The Roya Institute for Global Justice.

Thank you to all those who contributed to the creation of this resource.

The Handbook is available at: https://humanities-digitallibrary.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/clinical-legal-education

Response to COVID-19:

Between April 2020 and April 2021, all CLEO events have been held remotely and a decision was taken not to charge for events during that period. Several events focussed on how to adapt clinics for a lockdown world.

The delayed 2020 AGM took place virtually in accordance with Charity Commission guidance on 17 September 2020.

Clinical Legal Education Organisation No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts For the period 6.4.2020 05.04.2021 To from

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
3
387
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390
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390
1
971
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972
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972
- 582
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6,012
5,430		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
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-
-
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-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
3
387
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390
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390
1
971
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972
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972

- 582		 Total funds
to the nearest £
3
387
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390
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390
1
971
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972
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972

- 582		 Last year
to the nearest £
Bank interest 3 -
LERN income 387 -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 390 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
-
-
 -
~~Sub total~~ - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
-
Bank charges 1 -
Website maintenance fees 971 -
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- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
**Sub total ** 972 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
-
**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
-
- 582 - -
- 582		 -
- - - - -
6,012 - - 6,012 -
5,430 - - 5,430 -

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

31/01/2022

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Francine Ryan
Signature
L Bengtsson
Details
Details
Cash at bank
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
6,392
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-
-
-
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6,392
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Agreement Error
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
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Print Name
LyndseyBengtsson
Francine Ryan		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Current value
(optional)
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
L Bengtsson LyndseyBengtsson 09.10.2021
Francine Ryan Francine Ryan 30.01.2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

31/01/2022

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