£575,000 raised for legal charities
More than 7,500 people took part in the 10km London Legal Walk this week, raising a record £575,000 for legal charities in the Capital and the south east.
Those attending included the Lord Chief Justice, the President of the Supreme Court, the Master of the Rolls, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions.
They were joined by Olympic champion rower Katherine Grainger, who was part of the King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law team.
Bob Nightingale, chief executive of the London Legal Support Trust, said fundraising alone couldn’t overcome the funding shortage for advice centres, adding: “However, what we can and have done is to ensure that thousands of the most vulnerable people in and around London will gain vital help that they would otherwise have been denied.”
