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Highlights from our summer retreat

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

A screenshot of a video call with several participants

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.

Remedies: Justice requires so much more than “compensation”

An illustration of 4 people holding arms: a white woman* on one end, who is also holding her other arm up with a closed fist, a Black woman* and a woman* wearing a hijab are at the middle, and a Black men is at the other end, also holding his arm up with a closed fist. At the background there's mountains and the sun is rising.

What are we asking the court to do if they find in favour of our claim? As we develop litigation work with community partners, these considerations on the request for remedies will be a crucial part of the exploration process.

Taking the rough with the smooth: busting the myth of the single “landmark” case

An image of a demonstration. People holding signs that say "Trans Rights Now"

When litigating for change, all efforts can have impact and play a role in moving us towards the world we want to live in.

Rethinking what “success” in litigation campaigns means

An illustration by Sonaksha where Black and brown people are together holding hands. There are elements around them that represent justice such as a scale, pieces of paper and a feather pen, there is also a butterfly and a magnifying glass over a set of books.

The previous post in this series looked at the principles underpinning our approach to community-driven litigation, and the building blocks for the process we’re developing to ensure communities are leading in the litigation work that concerns them. We cannot yet say what the cases will look like –– that is the point, as the casework […]

Surfacing Systemic Injustices: “Nothing about us, without us.”

A group of Black and Brown people are protesting, one wearing a hijab, one in a wheelchair and one with a megaphone in hand.

Our approach to research and knowledge aspires always to bear witness, by being there embracing our ‘social connectedness, developing a sense of fellow membership, of community, solidarity and belonging together’ with those who experience systemic injustice.