Today, PLP launches one of its key projects in light of Brexit; the SIFT Project. SIFT stands for Statutory Instruments: Filtering and Tracking and the goal of the SIFT Project is to scrutinise the Statutory Instruments created to facilitate Brexit to check they conform to public law standards and do not undermine fundamental rights. There…
10 Jan 2019
Join our award-winning and thriving team of public lawyers. We are looking for an experienced, ambitious solicitor or barrister to litigate public law cases and help manage our small, highly-motivated casework team. This is a new and senior post. It is an opportunity for a lawyer with existing judicial review or litigation experience – either…
3 Jan 2019
PLP are representing the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) – a small charity who promote migrants’ rights in the UK. With our help, JCWI have issued a claim challenging Brexit-related changes to the Immigration Rules. The claim focuses on the inconsistencies between who the Government said would be excluded from the UK…
6 Nov 2018
The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is visiting the UK between 5 and 16 November 2018. Following on from PLP’s written submissions, published in advance of his visit, we will be attending a roundtable with him on 12 November to discuss access to justice and problem debt. PLP…
Brexit is a landmark event in the history of the UK’s constitutional development and it presents many questions for civil society organisations concerned with public law and human rights. Brexit also presents an opportunity to reflect more widely on the major challenges facing government in the next 10 years, and the corresponding challenges and opportunities…
27 Sep 2018