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Are judges getting stricter with judicial review procedure?

How an excessively purist approach to procedure risks undermining access to justice

Benefit sanctions: how to repair the system

Three steps to building a fairer process for challenging sanction decisions

The Civil Legal Aid Means Test: a system still failing those who need it most

Why we're calling for the Ministry of Justice to make urgent amendments

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Bridging the gap to justice: inside PLP’s Specialist Support Hubs

Solicitor Aoife O'Reilly lifts the lid on our specialist support hubs and why they're essential

Treaties matter: why securing scrutiny is vital

Head of Research, Arabella Lang, on three key reforms needed to improve treaty scrutiny

Way to Work: what does it mean for sanctions?

Research Fellow Caroline Selman unpacks what we know so far about the new DWP policy

How is PLP making a difference in Wales?

Solicitor Matthew Court on how the tide is turning on access to justice in Wales

Benefit Sanctions: on the rise again

Benefit sanctions are increasing again - but to what extent? Research Fellow Caroline Selman digs deeper

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Sometimes ‘justice’ means being heard

How a group of ex-sex workers from Hull achieved justice

Tackling systemic discrimination – A public health approach

Professor Iyiola Solanke – PLP’s newest patron – has written a guest blog drawing on her keynote speech from our July conference, The Equality Act 10 years on: Where are we now? There are currently two viruses causing death and destroying lives around the world: one is coronavirus, the other is discrimination. There are similarities

100 words on equality & the Equality Act 2010

Esther Leighton Drawing on her personal experience of tackling disability discrimination, Esther Leighton will be speaking at PLP’s conference 10 years of the Equality Act: Where are we now? Esther has promoted equality for disabled people by taking a series of cases – mostly as a litigant in person – about common failures to make

Judicial review of statutory instruments seminar held on 14 January 2020

On the afternoon of 14 January 2020, around 20 lawyers gathered in a former railway arch in Hackney, hosted by ClientEarth, to discuss judicial review of statutory instruments. This seminar was important because it is not often that Statutory Instruments (“SIs”) and system-change litigation are discussed in conjunction with one another. This was a chance

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