WHAT IS CLINUCA?

CLINUCA is the Legal Clinic of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cadiz.

It provides citizens with free, basic legal counselling on any legal matters which may affect them, thereby helping to defend and promote their rights and interests.

Aimed at citizens and non-profit-making NGOs and charities, the service is staffed by Law students  in the third or fourth year of the Bachelor’s Degree in Law, the fifth or sixth year of the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Business Administration, or the fourth or fifth year of the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Criminology. Participating students are supervised at all times by faculty members.

CLINUCA also provides practical training for students doing the Master’s Degree in Legal-Social Protection for Vulnerable People and Groups and the enabling Master’s Degree in Legal Practice, when such placements are made available by the degree coordinator. The more complex cases handled by the Clinic also constitute the basis for the end-of-degree projects which students have to submit to complete their bachelor’s or master’s degrees and which include opinions and reports on the issues raised.

CLINUCA’s activity basically involves assisting and advising individuals and organizations regarding the queries it receives, but without providing a full-blown professional consultation service. In other words, we offer initial guidance, informing citizens about possible courses of action and what professionals they need to contact. The experience obtained in the Clinic encourages and improves students’ active learning processes and practical training. It also helps them develop skills and abilities related to the legal profession, for example by improving their teamwork and their command of legal communications.

The project constitutes a vehicle through which to exercise the social responsibility of the public university system. The service it provides to the community will undoubtedly help bring the Faculty of Law closer to society and raise students’ awareness of the key role jurists play in the correct functioning of the rule of law.

We would like to emphasise that our Legal Clinic maintains no database of personal information and will not request such information. The anonymity of the private individuals using it is therefore guaranteed.  The students involved with CLINUCA must also sign a confidentiality agreement before starting work there.

CONTACT DETAILS:

OFFICE 1.005 in the Shared Services Building on the Jerez Campus
Telephone: 956037894
E-mail: clinica.juridica@uca.es

Terms of Service:

1. The University of Cadiz Legal Clinic (henceforth CLINUCA) offers assistance and guidance regarding the queries it receives, but does not perform
professional legal consultancy tasks. It merely offers initial guidance, indicating the most appropriate course of action.
2. The service is run by students in the final year of the Bachelor’s Degree in Law, supervised at all times by faculty teaching staff and by professionals specialising in different
aspects of Law.
3. The objectives of CLINUCA are on the one hand to complete the students’ training and help them acquire social values by bringing them into contact with real problems and real cases, and on the other to collaborate with less privileged groups.
4. The services offered by CLINUCA are totally free of charge and aimed at residents in the Province of Cadiz.
5. The non-professional nature of the Clinic means that it cannot conduct proceedings or represent individuals or organizations before courts or law, administrative organs or private third parties. It will always be the recipient of the advice provided who, taking into account the possible solutions suggested by CLINUCA, must take the decision to resort to legal professionals capable of defending their interests.
In conclusion, the legal guidance service offered by the University of Cadiz Legal Clinic is IN NO WAY comparable to that which can be provided by a practicing lawyer.
6. Consultations will be received by email at the CLINUCA email address clinica.juridica@uca.es; by filling out the contact form on the Clinic’s web page; by telephone on 956 037 894; or in person during the office hours posted on the Clinic’s web site at https://derecho.uca.es/clinica-juridica/.
7. The members of the Legal Clinic will carry out their duties as conscientiously as possible. They are also obliged to respect the confidentiality agreement they signed and are bound to maintain professional secrecy regarding any information that may be disclosed to them.
8. By virtue of this document, the interested party hereby authorises the University of Cadiz Legal Clinic to process his/her personal information in accordance with (Spanish) Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, concerning the Protection of Personal Data and the Guarantee of Digital Rights.

OFFICE HOURS:

Please make an appointment beforehand

• Telephone: 956 037894
  • Monday, 16.00h a 17.00h
  • Tuesday, 11.00h a 13.00h
  • Wednesday, 16.00h a 18.00h
• Email: clinica.juridica@uca.es

 

Consultations can also be submitted online by filling out the form accessible at: https://derecho.uca.es/clinica-juridica/clinica-juridica-campus-de-jerez/