Genuinely humbled by the flood of financial support for @GoodLawProject this last week. This year alone, we have brought litigation demanding free school meals over the summer holidays; removal of the planning bias in favour of fossil fuel infrastructure;... /1
... a public inquiry over mishandling PPE; for Government to provide children who cannot access education online with devices; challenging the award of vast public procurement contracts to unknowns. We have threatened Wetherspoons with action for failing to pay staff. We are...
working with @Gingerbread and @MumsnetTowers to threaten legal proceedings if the Child Maintenance Service does not collect maintenance for single (usually) mothers living in poverty. We are likely to sue Government for failing to revise air pollution limits in light of Covid.
We are pursuing ongoing litigation against Uber for a billion pound tax dodge and against a number of companies for trapping thousands of young graduates in indentured labour. We are supporting litigation against the mistreatment of domestic workers following Covid. We are...
instructing several Black British QCs leading BAME juniors to argue against the Government's appalling mistreatment of the Windrush generation. We have ongoing action against constitutional abuses by the Attorney General. We have produced a lengthy report on how strategic...
litigation might be used to protect vulnerable renters when the eviction freeze ends - and we are likely to bring litigation following that report. We are taking advice on whether we can bring a private prosecution to protect against corruption in public office by those at...
heart of the Cabinet. Alongside all this public work we, every week, with the help of lawyers acting pro bono or at discounted rates seek to help individuals or small charities or businesses. That we can do this work, of which I am immensely proud, is attributable to *your*...
... support and I am humbled by it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
