A law clinic based at a Kent university campus has helped clients obtain £5.6 million since 1992, it revealed this week.

The University of Kent’s Kent Law Clinic offers free legal advice to the community at its Canterbury campus. It allows law students to assist, under supervision, as part of their education.

Of the total, £1.9m has been gained since January 2012, most from welfare benefit and employment cases.

A spokesman explained: "A total of 271 students participated in the work of the clinic in 2016-17. They worked on a wide variety of duties, projects and cases, undertaking reception duty, organising the weekly advice sessions, attending the weekly case review meetings, working in the immigration and asylum team and criminal justice project, or assisting in the clinic’s partnership link with Makeni Law Clinic in Sierra Leone.

"It also holds Monday evening advice sessions at outreach locations in Kent where local solicitors and barristers attend for two hours to provide pro bono legal advice to members of the public."