We can't turn back the CLOCK but we do make a difference...

In 2012, Mike Wolfe, writing for The Sentinel, inset, announced the 'CLOCK plan launched Just in Time to Challenge Legal Cuts, stating: "If you think all lawyers are rich white men without any social conscience then you should have joined me at an event at Keele University last week."

- Dr Jane Krishnadas - Conceptor and Convenor of CLOCK, Senior Lecturer School of Law, Keele University

Fourteen years later, I'm sure Mike would have been delighted to see the launch of Keele in Town, to meet the CLOCK students, local legal professionals and community partners, who have since assisted more than 6,000 litigants in person through the courts, and now have a permanent home in the new Keele in Town building, in the heart of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

CLOCK, the Community Legal Outreach Collaboration, Keele - began after listening to Voices of Experience; a self-help group of women who had lived in a refuge after escaping domestic abuse, share their concerns and fears of having to face their ex-partners in court alone, after the significant withdrawal of legal aid once available to 80 per cent of the population to now only five per cent (Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, 2012).