Legal advice on your home or car insurance

An excellent piece of employment law/finance advice from one of my friends to another this week. Friend A finds herself in the midst of a dispute with her employer but has no trade union representation to fight the employment law battle for her. Enter Friend B, who does work for a union, and thus knows all about this stuff. His advice was to check their home and motor insurance policies, as these often have access to legal advice thrown in - it's a little sweetener to encourage people to buy policies, but one which people rarely take advantage of. This, ironically, is how they are able to throw it in for free of course. Friend A is now delighted to find she can afford a lawyer to take on the case.