Pro Bono Work

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General – in the House of Commons am 10:30 am ar 15 Hydref 2009.

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Photo of Vera Baird Vera Baird Solicitor General, Attorney General's Office 10:30, 15 Hydref 2009

The domestic and international pro bono co-ordinating committees, which the Attorney-General chairs, continue to undertake excellent work in encouraging lawyers to do pro bono work in the UK and abroad. That includes preparing for the annual pro bono week, which takes place from 9 to 13 November and is intended to raise awareness of pro bono work for lawyers and potential recipients. That week will celebrate the achievements of about 50 pro bono heroes, who have between them carried out 6,500 hours of pro bono work nationally during the past 12 months. If anybody has a non-Latin phrase instead of pro bono, it would be very helpful, because I am stumped for one.