A launch event for Strathclyde Univeristy Law Clinic's expanded programme of events will be held tonight, attended by Strathclyde graduate and Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini.

The student run Law Clinic will be introducing a new range of services including monthly advice centres evening sessions at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, the Greenock Outreach Project, and a programme for prisoners coming to the end of their sentence, designed to offer them legal advice in areas such as employment and housing, to help them in their return to society.

"The Law Clinic has been an outstanding success throughout its six-year history and we are now ready to build on this by broadening our activities," said Professor Donald Nicolson, Director of Strathclyde Law Clinic.

"The service we provide responds to a huge unmet need in Scotland, for people who might otherwise miss out on the representation they need and deserve. It also provides Law students with practical experience, a heightened sense of vocation and a commitment to social justice, all of which will prove crucial to them when they enter the legal profession.

"This new programme will enable even more students and members of the public to benefit from the Clinic."

You can read more about the Law Clinic here. Earlier this year, the Law Clinic's work won Strathclyde Law School the Best Contribution by a Law School prize in the LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards.