Community services offered by Fisher Cartwright Berriman

Fisher Cartwright Berriman offers a number of services to the community in an attempt to return the support it receives from it. The legal franchisee business is a client driven multi-disciplinary legal practice that was established in 1993. The major programme of the legal advice business in offering its services to the community is its support of the Midnight Basketball initiative.

The legal franchisee business supports the Midnight Basketball programme in attempt to help the initiative to reduce crime among youth. Midnight Basketball is a crime reduction programme to bring about a positive transformation of youth within targeted communities by providing a successful combination of constructive work shops with a healthy dose of basketball. The programme is established in Australia following its success in countries like the United States and United Kingdom.

The workshops conducted by Midnight Basketball with the support of Fisher Cartwright Berriman addresses issues like health, education, relationships, conflict resolution, anger management and making positive choices. The legal advice business aims to contribute to the process of diverting young people from anti-social behaviour and crime by conducting the Midnight Basketball programme on weekend nights when young people are known to engage in crimes.