We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, strongly condemn the mass detention of LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Turkey and urge their immediate release. In the early morn...

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

Home Office guidance confirms that the definition of domestic violence is as per the one in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. It involves:

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

Back in August 2024, Sam Corner, Ellie Kamio, Lottie Head and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were among a group of six activists who broke into a factory operated by Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit S...

A powerful coalition of lawyers, campaigners, artists and advocacy organisations has come together to demand the UK Government end what they describe as a two-tier system of justice for victims of sta...

⚖️ Legal Aid funding for mental health work is not sustainable. When someone is severely mentally ill, they may need to be sectioned, and when this happens, they have a right to legal representation which is funded through legal aid.Over the last decade a solicitor's fee for taking on such a case as declined by 45% in real terms, and unsurprisingly there has been a decline in the number of solicitors who are willing to work in this area. In 2024/25 there were just 151 solicitors accredited as members of the Law Society Mental Health Scheme. Taking away an individual's liberty, not because they have committed a crime, but because they are mentally unwell is one of the most serious interventions the state can make over a person. This is an area of law that cannot safely be starved of funding.I put these challenges to the Lord Chancellor David Lammy earlier on this week, and I will be writing to him asking for a meeting so he is equipped with the information to understand why this needs his urgent attention.

Our research combined statistical data, interviews, and geographic information system (GIS) tools to map social welfare legal aid ‘deserts’ in England and Wales. This novel mixed methodology enabled ...

People seeking asylum navigate one of the most complex areas of law, often not in their first language

[This post is by Nuno Ferreira (Professor of Law at Sussex). This piece is republished with permission from the Refugee Law Initiative’s RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration.] By Nuno…

Landmark research reveals hidden and non-chargeable cost of managing cases and contracts.

Thousands of asylum seekers left without lawyers after firm took on thousands of cases with just five solicitors

Home Office behaviour has convinced Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh that only experts lawyers can change system

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable