Travellers Advice Team
Travellers Advice Team (TAT) is an organisation independent of Friends, Families and Travellers that provides legal advice to Gypsies and Travellers.
Telephone Line:
The Travellers Advice Team at the Community Law Partnership are very pleased to announce a dedicated Telephone Advice Line for Travellers which is being funded as part of a pilot scheme by the Legal Services Commission.
The Advice Line will be staffed between 10.00am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 5.00pm Monday to Friday (with exception of Bank Holidays). The number is
0845 120 2980
Travellers can speak directly to experienced advisers on questions of evictions, planning matters, issues involving official caravan sites and other matters.
The advice line is funded by the Legal Services Commission.
About TAT:
part of
The Community Law Partnership
(Solicitors - Housing Law Advice)
4th Floor, Ruskin Chambers
191 Corporation Street
Birmingham B4 6RP
0845 120 2980
Landline: 0121 685 8595
Fax: 0121 236 5121
Email: office@communitylawpartnership.co.uk
24 hour Emergency Phone Service: 07768 316755
The Travellers Advice Team (TAT) is made up of a dedicated group of solicitors and legal workers who provide specialist legal advice and representation to the Traveller community throughout England and Wales. Their work focuses predominantly on evictions and planning.
The team is made up of:
Chris Johnson (Team Leader and Solicitor)
Sharon Baxter (Solicitor)
Parminder Sanghera (Solicitor)
Dr. Angus Murdock (Travellers Advisor)
Claire McGurin (Travellers Advice Line Worker)
Emma Westwood (Travellers Advice Team Administrator)
and is supported by the other solicitors and advisors in the Community Law Partnership. The Travellers Advice Team provides emergency 24hr national advice and representation and works closely with other non-government agencies working with Travellers.
The Community Law Partnership (CLP) is a radical, progressive new firm specializing in housing law in the West Midlands and Traveller law nationally. CLP aims to provide quality legal services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of society who, without their assistance, would be denied access to the legal system and to their rights.
CLP provides advice, assistance and representation to clients in the following areas:
- getting repairs done to rented properties
- compensation claims for disrepair
- defending possession and eviction actions
- homelessness
- re-housing
- injunctions against bad landlords
- compensation claims for illegal eviction and/or injunctions to prevent it
- renovation grants for home owners
- disabled facilities grants
- National Assistance Act work
- Traveller evictions and planning problem
