Our impact
Since its launch, Law for Change has backed over 30 public interest cases
Our high-impact approach includes indemnification against adverse cots providing critical and timely financial backing to ensure important cases are heard.
Below is a selection of Law for Change backed cases:
Defending peaceful climate crisis protests
Judge rules against convicting Just Stop Oil protesters, citing "unjustifiable" human rights violation under Article 10 and 11 ECHR
Backing the right to safe asylum
Law for Change backed one of the key challenges by Asylum Aid to the Home Secretary’s policy of removing asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.
Standing up for fair pay for Academics at the University of Oxford
Oxford University tutors, Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly, have won their claim for employee status at an Employment Tribunal hearing. The challenge was funded by Law for Change.
Advocating for mandatory food waste reporting
Food industry environmental campaigners have welcomed a government U-turn that means the government will reconsider whether the food industry will be required to report how much food is going to waste.
Challenging the Metropolitan Police Gangs Matrix
Following a Law for Change backed challenge, Metropolitan Police has scrapped its gangs violence matrix database after more than a decade over concerns about the scheme's unlawfulness and disproportionality.
Fighting for accessible live music events
We backed three Deaf mothers fighting against discrimination at live music events in the UK
Backing Personal Evacuation Plans for disabled tower block leaseholders
We worked with Bhatt Murphy and CLADDAG to support a judicial review against the Secretary of State for the Home Department, advocating for Personal Evacuation Plans for people with disabilities living in tower blocks.