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CANS print logoCANS Advice Notes – www.cans.org.uk
ISSN No. 1747-6240
Published by the CANS Trust (registered charity no. 803343)

English, Welsh & Scottish legislation explained

About Cans Legal Information

Charitable aims

Our objective as a charity is to make low-cost legal information available to the general public. Please see the video on our home page for a visual representation of CANS Legal Information.

As part of our charitable aims, we publish a detailed summary of the laws of England, Wales and Scotland. The online service, www.cans.org.uk, and the loose-leaf version, the CANS Digest of Social Legislation, are updated frequently to make sure the public and advisers receive the latest amendments to legislation. The online service will help us to provide even greater access to affordable legal information.

CANS Trust - charity registration number 803343.

CANS Trust - company in England and Wales limited by guarantee, company registration number 2495441, registered office at Royal London House, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX.

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Our history

CANS Trust was established in 1990 to continue the publication of the CANS Digest of Social Legislation. The Digest, which was formerly published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, has been in existence since 1939. It was introduced by Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government to cover the numerous emergency measures that came into force as part of the World War II public service provisions. Since 2008, we have been known as Cans Legal Information.

Keeping citizens informed about the law extended beyond war-time and now, 80 years later, the CANS Digest is an extensive three-volume publication that covers more than 450 areas of the law.

CANS Legal Information has also published single-subject paperback books. Key to this undertaking are our disability law books which deliver a complex and disparate set of laws in an easy to digest format. For further information about our papeback books, please click on CANS Guide to Disability Discrimination and CANS Guide to Disability Law.

To reflect the growing use of the Internet by the public, we have now introduced www.cans.org.uk, an online version of the CANS Digest.

The next step?.......That's the exciting thing about the law; it's always changing.

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Our publications

CANS Legal Information publishes:

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Who uses our publications

Our publications are widely used by:

  • Libraries
  • Universities and colleges
  • Advice and welfare centres
  • Solicitors
  • Local authorities
  • Charities

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Contact Cans Legal Information

To contact Cans Legal Information, please go to the contact us form, write to us at Cans Legal Information, Royal London House, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX, or telephone us on 0207 374 4925.

Copyright – CANS Advice Notes © Citizens Advice Notes Service Trust (CANS Trust) 2005. All trademarks acknowledged.
Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.

Disclaimer – Although great care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the compilation and preparation of CANS Advice Notes, the publishers cannot in any circumstances accept responsibility for any errors or omissions.


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