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Legal advice for citizens facing police street checks

A lawyer in your pocket smartphone app developed by a law student who had himself been a victim of a legal rights violation.

A phone app offering legal guidance
Featuring Joshua Simmonds. Students Beyond Grades report.

A lawyer in your pocket smartphone app developed by a law student who had himself been a victim of a legal rights violation.

Projects like this show how student research can reshape public systems, from justice and housing to civic participation and animal welfare.

Students Beyond Grades exists to record this kind of research and development. The project publishes short reports on work that improves health, community, waste reduction, education and sustainability, whether it is carried out inside formal study or alongside it. If you are working on something similar, you can share your work with the project.

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