Pro bono: Never enough

Pro bono: Never enough

November 20, 2017, The Law Society Gazette

Helena Milner-Smith participated in a roundtable hosted by The Law Society Gazette to discuss the importance of pro bono work. According to Milner-Smith, clients previously receiving poor paid-for advice is a major problem in immigration cases. Commenting on a briefing she received before working on her first immigration case, Milner-Smith says, "It also talked about the fact there are a lot of shark-lawyers in the immigration area charging clients a lot of money to give terrible advice, [and] very shabby applications. Advice on things like sham marriages, which then makes someone’s future chances of getting an immigration application cleared much more difficult."