Solicitor Margaret Foley.
Rosemount Resource Centre in Derry is now able to provide legal advice and assistance on a number of issues after becoming one of the first generalist advice centres in Northern Ireland to be granted a “waiver.”
As a result, it the Centre has been able to employ a solicitor and set up a dedicated community based law firm – North West Legal Access Project – and is able to provide legal aid under the “green form scheme” on a number of issues including housing (landlord and tenant), social security, consumer, hire purchase and debt.
Solicitor Margaret Foley has been a qualified solicitor for over 20 years.
She is formerly a government lawyer with extensive experience in private practice. She has lectured at a university in her native north east of England where she also ran a law centre.
Her interest and involvement with legal issues, particularly addressing injustice, can be traced back to one of her first roles in employment, that of trade union representative. She dislikes people putting up with less than they’re entitled to and welcomes fairness and equality for all.
Legal assistant Lisa-Marie Mc Daid is a qualified paralegal who has an extensive 15 year background in youth and community work in the city and beyond.
Miss Mc Daid embarked in welfare rights training before returning to study through NWRC access programme and went on to complete a degree in Law with Honours at University of Ulster, Magee Campus.
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