Still, just as searching the library shelves or skimming through a real book still reveals hidden gems one wouldn't know enough to look for deliberately, there's nothing like the sudden laugh, or frown, or upraised eyebrow to invoke a conversational detour that in turn can lead to a new project idea, a previously
unexpressed view on a subject the LCO is studying.
In an interview for a recent Law Times article [1] I expressed the
view that one of the main objectives of the legal health check - up (LHC) approach is to establish outreach in order to identify people with
unexpressed legal need and to provide pathways along which people can travel to obtain help with legal problems.