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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
2 July 2019
London Climate Action Week: Funding environmental cases & the Aarhus fixed costs Rules
Access to justice is central pillar to the rule of law. Ensuring individuals and organisations can afford access to justice is a real challenge, none more so than in environmental cases where the success is not driven by monetary reward.
1 July 2019
More rainbows, but also more hate crime: why Pride is still so important in 2019
We are marking each day in the week leading up to London Pride with a blog highlighting LGBTQ+ issues from home and abroad.
1 July 2019
London Climate Action Week: Saving Londoners from nitrogen dioxide, one judicial review at a time
According to the most recent data, two million people in London are living with illegal levels of air pollution. Nitrogen dioxide is one of the main pollutants and road transport is estimated to be responsible for 50% of total emissions.
24 June 2019
The Windrush Compensation Scheme – is it enough?
The media coverage of the Windrush scandal may have died down since it topped the news cycles just over a year ago, but for the thousands of people impacted, whose lives were turned upside down by the lack of recognition of their lawful status, by the denial of fundamental services and by the loss of livelihoods and homes, the day to day struggle continues.
21 June 2019
A conversation with my Grandma on her experience from Trinidad to England #WindrushDay2019
With Windrush day approaching I wanted to speak with my grandma, Ruby Burgess, about her experience of coming to England during that period. From time to time she does reminisce about those days, especially as she has gotten older, but I have never had a chance to sit down with her and get to know her full story. When I asked her about her experience she smiled and said “o you’re bringing back memories now”.