Source: LSJ
By Avril Janks
An award-winning social enterprise has found an innovative way to offer renters access to justice: by combining customised technology, supervised legal internship programs, and a clever funding mechanism.
It was the perfect set-up. An invitation from a friend to the Global Legal Hackathon, which asks participants to solve a set of legal problems with technology; a passion to address the ‘wicked problem’ of inadequate access to justice; and the dream of a career in social impact.
That was in 2018, and Noel Lim hasn’t looked back.
“On that weekend, we came up with the idea for Anika Legal,” says Lim, who has been the CEO of this social enterprise since its origins. “It would be a free legal service that would provide legal support to people who would otherwise not receive it. To fund it, we came up with a model that leverages the capital of universities as well as the energy of law students.”
Lim explains: “The lawyers in the service would be supported by law students…
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