Europe’s first Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. Hackney Community Law Centre (HCLC) is an amazing charity employing solicitors and paralegals to provide free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs.

The problem:

Working in ‘start-up land’ with huge investments, cool spaces and posh coffee you might not realise life is harder for some of the other residents of Hackney. Despite government cuts HCLC do a great job, but they have many issues delivering legal services that can be solved by technology and in doing so help the most vulnerable people in our community.

The core problem this Hackathon will address is that 50% of clients drop out after one meeting, for a variety of cultural, social and language reasons. HCLC will start the Hackathon pitching three problem statements around these issues.

The prize:

Prizes up for grabs include:

£1000 worth of startup legal advice, thanks to General Standards

£300 worth of Amazon Prizes, thanks to Crowd Justice and Amazon

Schedule:

• Teams from the public, private, and legal sector will work together to conceive, build, and pitch technical solutions to tackle specific challenges for Hackney Law Centre.

• You can register free as either a team or an individual (we will pair you up with a team) for the Hackathon by clicking “Get Tickets”

At the end of the weekend (Saturday Evening), groups will be judged by a panel that includes a representative of Hackney Law Centre, tech leaders from government and our sponsors. The top 3 teams will be awarded prizes (to be announced!).

Venue: Campus London, a Google space, Old StreetFriday (18.03.16):

• 19.00:
  Hackers arrive at Campus London, a Google space for Kick off
• Overnight:
  Teams build. Food and drink supplied (plenty of coffee and red bull supplied)

Saturday (19.03.16):

• All day:
  Teams continue to build their solutions
• 17.00 – 18.00: Demo by teams and competition
• 18.00 – 19.00: Winner announced and drinks

Our mission

To create robust digital solutions that will enable Hackney Law Centre to deliver legal services in a more efficient way and be used as a pilot to be used by other law centres across the UK.

Post event, at Hackney Law Centre discretion, selected groups will have the opportunity to test their products on potential users and take their solution further with Hackney Law Centre.

Please note: If you are not part of a team, don’t worry register and we will pair you up.