Archive for the ‘Shipping News’ Category

14May

Shell and Clifford Chance collaborate to support and inspire future lawyers at Njala University

On 19 March 2019, a team from Shell and Clifford Chance spent the afternoon indexing and packing 120 boxes of legal books on behalf of the ILBF. After hearing about the ILBF from Ellen Lake (Senior Associate at Clifford Chance and member of the ILBF operating committee) and Melissa Brown (Senior Associate at Clifford Chance), […]
03Dec

Wollo University receives text books from University of Law

In October 2018, the ILBF was delighted to send a shipment of legal text books to Wollo University in Ethiopia. Partnering with University of Law in Guildford, and with support from Latham & Watkins LLP in the UK and Tabtra Logistics Agency in Ethiopia, 124 text books in were delivered to the Wollo University School […]
28Aug

Keeping fit and sharing legal knowledge one step at a time!

Only seven weeks to go before the Royal Parks Half Marathon on 14th October! Our team of eight lawyers from Brown Rudnick, Linklaters, 3VB, and 4 New Square are training hard:  they need your support to reach their fundraising target. So far, they have raised nearly 60% of their target of £4,000.  Please support Team ILBF via […]
02Jul

Supporting the African Prisons Project law students

The African Prisons Project has an extensive programme in Uganda and Kenya and works to bring Justice, dignity and hope to men, women and children in prison in Africa through healthcare, life skills, access to justice and leadership. The ILBF was delighted to send a shipment of student and practitioner books late in 2017. Ritah […]
26Jan

50,000+ books around the world!

We are delighted that since we started in 2005, we have now shipped 51,000 books to 180 organisations in 50 countries! That’s 51,000 textbooks not being pulped or going into landfill but instead finding a new home supporting judges, law commissions, pro bono organisations and the lawyers of the future across the globe. A simple […]
27Mar

Kathmandu University School of Law

At the end of 2016, the ILBF shipped 240 boxes of books to five organisations in Nepal. Through partnering with the Kathmandu office of The Asia Foundation, we’ve been able to get the books to the final destinations and can now share the story of ILBF books, donated by the UK legal community, being officially handed over to the Kathmandu University School of Law.