ABSTRACT
Legal students and legal professionals may be expected to deliver legal training and/or education to the community, other legal entitles or to other professionals but may have little educational preparation on how to train the community or other professionals effectively. ‘Community legal education’ is the general imparting of legal information to an audience to give them greater legal literacy. However, it too is limited in impact if there is no consideration of the community or individual capacity to digest newfound knowledge in a practical way. A community development approach is consistent with the legal empowerment models and strength-based approaches outlined in previous chapters in this text. Community development is defined, as the provision of information and learning that can be used to strengthen an individual or a community's capacity to act on legal information with confidence in the given situation and circumstances.
