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The Story of LawCare: Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Legal Community Past, Present and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Mary B Jackson
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Abstract

This article explores how and why LawCare came into being. LawCare is the only charity dedicated to promoting and supporting good mental health and wellbeing across the legal community in the UK. The charity started in 1997 to help solicitors with alcohol problems, but has developed over the years and now supports all legal professionals in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man with any mental health and wellbeing issues. This article by Mary Jackson is based on a presentation she gave at the BIALL Online Annual Conference held in June 2021.

Keywords

mental healthwellbeinglegal profession
Type
Five Papers from the BIALL Online Annual Conference 2021
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 196 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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2 Dr Larry Richard, ‘The Mind of the Lawyer Leader’ Law Practice (September/October 2015) Law Practice www.lawpractice.org accessed 13 August 2021.

3 IBA, IBA Releases Interim Survey Results on Wellbeing in the Legal Profession (1 April 2021) www.ibanet.org accessed 13 August 2021.

4 Richard Collier, Anxiety & Wellbeing Amongst Junior Lawyers: a Research Study (June 2019) www.ncl.ac.uk accessed 13 August 2021.

5 https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/news/pandemic-one-year-landmark-mental-health-study-reveals-mixed-picture accessed 13 August 2021.

6 https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/we-need-to-work-together-to-foster-wellbeing-in-the-law/5101754.article accessed 13 August 2021.

7 Angus Lyon, A Lawyer's Guide to Wellbeing and Managing Stress (ARK 2015) pp xvii,115.

8 Mackesy, Charles, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Penguin 2019)Google Scholar.