The Legal Clinic or the student legal service was established under the Law Faculty of Gyumri “Progress” University in December, 2003, with the support provided by ABA ROLI . In 2004 the Clinic was registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia as a non-governmental organization (“Student Legal Consultation” Legal Clinic).


Main goals of the Legal Clinic activities are to:

• Provide hands-on knowledge through combining theory learned during their studies with practice, which will promote the acquisition and
  development of skills necessary for their further work as legal professionals;
• Provide free legal aid to socially vulnerable class.


Main directions of the LC activities are:

• Organizing trainings with interactive teaching methods;
• Introducing student consultants to the skills and legal issues of legal practice;
• Enhancing the proficiency level of student consultants;
• Providing legal services for certain society groups in the following branches of law:
      - Apartment law
      - Land law
      - Property law
      - Other branches based on the decision of the Board of the Clinic.


The Clinic implements its activities through imparting appropriate level of knowledge and based on the following principles:

• Legitimacy
• Humaneness
• Protection of human rights and freedoms
• Confidentiality
• Voluntarism
• Independence and uncompensated service.


Clients of the Clinic are:

• Socially vulnerable people and those  in need of free legal aid;
• Any one who can be a potential client of the Clinic according to the LC Charter.


Pursuant to Gyumri LC Charter such people are:

Pensioners, disabled people, family members of diseased freedom fighters, parentless juveniles, families of many children, single mothers, unemployed people, people who are illegally dismissed from work that have not occupied top-level offices, people who have been compelled to be truant.


The following factors are considered when accepting documents:

• The client shall be a representative of socially vulnerable class;
• Cases accepted by the Clinic shall comply with the goals and objectives of the Clinic;
• The client shall give his consent for discussing his case in the Clinic;
• Other instances set forth in the Charter of the Clinic.


Remember!
Clinical trainings  are  offered after scheduled university classes.