Public Interest Litigation Support
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We break down legal, financial and knowledge barriers to help NGOs and solicitors in Northern Ireland build life-changing public Interest litigation.
Belfast
Joined June 2011
BREAKING: @CAJNi have successfully challenged the NI Executive's failure to adopt an #AntiPoverty strategy! This morning, the High Court held that the Executive Cmte was in breach of its statutory commitment. More details to follow. #PublicInterestLitigation
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🆕Podcast Alert🆕 To Be Fair NI returns for Series 2 on Thurs 13 Nov 2025. Join us for a special set of #WeDoProBono interviews, reuniting incredible activists and Pro Bono Register lawyers. Justice really is a team sport. @ProBonoWeekUK @CAJNi @CnaG @TheBarofNI #CILNI
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If today's conversation lit a spark of pro bono inspiration, we'd encourage you to add your name to the growing community that is PILS' Pro Bono Register: https://t.co/VTwoEPNDaE
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Thank you to everyone who joined our conversation, with particular thanks to: ✨ our guest speaker Leona Askin BL ✨ @TobyBrownUK for taking a very early morning flight to join us ✨ @YoungBarNI's Katherine Sharpe & everyone @TheBarofNI for welcoming us to the Inn of Court.
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"What better way to serve the public interest as a lawyer than to get involved in public interest litigation?" This is one of the questions that our Director Kate Barry posed today during her lunchtime seminar to mark Pro Bono Week UK 2025. #WeDoProBono #ProBonoWeek
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Designed to meet the needs of local human rights defenders and launched in 2025, the guide was a collaborative project between PILS, @CAJNi, @EJNI_Online and @foe_ni. 🔗 https://t.co/lMIGlTICan
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Great discussion at last night’s @ProBonoWeekUK launch on the many forms of legal pro bono. From Belfast, we couldn’t agree more! The NI Know Your Rights to Protest guide, built with 5 pro bono barristers, shows how legal skills can empower communities💪 #WeDoProBono
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Sign up now for a chance to ask PILS your burning pro bono questions, as well as securing a CPD point and lunch! ⬇️ https://t.co/rEe3tYYu1h
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📣 GUEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📣 @PILSni & @YoungBarNI are delighted to have barrister Leona Askin BL joining us tomorrow. A long-time member of the PILS Pro Bono Register, Leona will reflect on her recent experiences & on what pro bono means to her in 2025. #WeDoProBono
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The @PILSni team are excited to be celebrating Pro Bono Week from 03-07 November! This year’s theme is ‘Pro Bono in Action’. 🗓️Check out all the events taking place: https://t.co/6loHTpmgHP ➡️Follow @ProBonoWeekUK 🤳Join the conversation online with #ProBonoWeek & #WeDoProBono
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🗂️ UK Pro Bono Week 2025: An introduction to public interest litigation and PILS’ Pro Bono Register 🗂️ To mark UK Pro Bono Week 2025, @PILSni is co-hosting an event with the Young Bar Association. 📅 Tuesday 04 November 2025,13.00-14.00 📍 The Inn of Court, Royal Courts of
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Curious to learn how pro bono can drive systemic change in NI? Join us and @YoungBarNI during #UKProBonoWeek (Tues 4 Nov, 13:00–14:00) 🥪 Lunch from 12:30 & 1 CPD point 📍 Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast 🔗 Register: https://t.co/4iDK7FV5D8
@ProBonoWeekUK #WeDoProBono
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🗓️One week to go! Join @PILSni and our @ProBonoWeekUK colleagues in Scotland, England and Wales as we celebrate 'Pro Bono in Action'. Check out the #UKPBW event calendar: https://t.co/6loHTpmgHP
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Thank you to everyone who joined our first Autumn Social with @JohnWadham, Maureen Walker, @theBrendyKerr & @YallaaNI . You filled @BelfastExposed with conversation, laughter and hope. 📸Relive the night through Alisa Lymanska's photos: https://t.co/FwBpQrqYN1
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"Leave was granted unopposed in respect of Conradh na Gaeilge's challenge application for a judicial review, to compel the Executive & the Department for Communities to incept a strategy for the Irish language." @KRWLaw 🎥 Dylan Hegarty @irish_news
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🚨Cead cúirte bronnta ar Chonradh na Gaeilge don 3ú huair maidirnle straitéis don Ghaeilge ó thuaidh 📍Conradh na Gaeilge granted leave for 3rd Judicial Review against @niexecutive for ongoing failure to adopt an Irish language strategy ⭐️@KRWLaw @PILSni
“Almost 20 years have now passed since the legal duty was set out. Timelines set by DfC have now passed." “We should be preparing for our second 20-year Irish language strategy, rather than litigating against the failure to bring forward our first.” https://t.co/YxgUOXavHb
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📰Community News/Nuacht ó Chomhphobal📰 Our NGO members @CnaG will return to court in 2026, challenging @niexecutive @CommunitiesNI's failure to deliver an Irish Language Strategy. Reaction from @potiarnaigh⬇️ #PublicInterestLitigation #JudicialReview
“Almost 20 years have now passed since the legal duty was set out. Timelines set by DfC have now passed." “We should be preparing for our second 20-year Irish language strategy, rather than litigating against the failure to bring forward our first.” https://t.co/YxgUOXavHb
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Today Friends of the Earth NI declared Stormont a crime scene. Decisions made by the Executive have caused the death of Lough Neagh and we’ve had enough. Give us an Environmental Protection Agency now! #ecocide #ProtectOurWaters
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Today Friends of the Earth NI declared Stormont a crime scene. Decisions made by the Executive have caused the death of Lough Neagh and we’ve had enough. Give us an Environmental Protection Agency now! #ecocide #ProtectOurWaters
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Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine. This beautiful saying, or seanfhocail, literally translates as 'people survive in the shelter/shadow of others'. What a great expression of solidarity to start the week with! GRMA @CnaG ❤️
Gabhaimid buíochas le @PILSni as ucht an tacaíocht a chuireann siad ar fáil dúinn i rith ama. Leanann PILS orthu ag feidhmiú mar chrann taca mór agus muid ag tabhairt aghaidhe ar na cúirteanna. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine!
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@CAJNi @CloghanNo @IEFNI @SaveOurSperrins @CnaG @JohnWadham @TheDetailTV John debunks attacks against the Human Rights Act, pointing out that the ECtHR has only ruled against the UK in respect of immigration rules 3 times in 45 years.
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