Building better recruitment

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A key part of building an organisation is building a team, which is why we have thought long and hard about how to develop recruitment practices which improve on what is typically a taxing process for everyone involved. Here are ten of the key things we are doing.

Movement lawyering in dialogue with community-driven litigation

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A variety of terms frequently pop up in discussions around using the courts to bring about social change. In this piece, we are exploring one such term that frequently comes up in the context of our work: “movement lawyering”, a term that has grown in popularity over recent years and has started to gain greater traction in Europe, including by institutions engaged in or supporting litigation work. But what does it mean?  

Highlights from our summer retreat 

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As a fully remote team, our regular in-person retreats are a much-valued time to connect, strategise, and enjoy one another’s company. We had our second retreat of the year in the beautiful Northern Irish countryside last June, with our team and board meeting to spend the week together.

Research: a necessary component of strategic litigation against systemic injustice

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Before we can fix systemic injustices, we need to understand them. One of the key elements of our community-driven approach to strategic litigation that challenges climate, racial, social, and economic injustices is undertaking research to reveal how these injustices are experienced by marginalised communities across Europe. By design, our research methodologies recognise the interconnected harms of climate injustice, lack of access to justice, policing, racism, social unprotection and lack of freedom of movement.