Five Lessons from Pro Bono Week 2020 in Northern Ireland
Having conversations with colleagues now has to be digitised and formalised in a Zoom schedule. The impromptu chat about a...
Read moreProud to support our members’ work on LGBTI equality
This week, the plan was for Belfast to be a rainbow hotspot of events culminating in the 30th Pride march...
Read moreThe Truth about Pro Bono – event summary
Seeking to build on the momentum generated in our UK Pro Bono Week webinar, PILS organised The Truth about Pro...
Read moreUK Pro Bono Week 2020 Round-Up
In what has been an intense and bizarre year for many communities, the sense of positivity created by UK Pro...
Read morePILS x Activist Lawyer
Episode 25 in the Activist Lawyer podcast series – featuring The PILS Project – is out now!
Read moreRights groups challenge NI Executive to fulfil anti-poverty pledge
Stormont spends almost £1 billion pounds a year dealing with child poverty, according to Trussell NI. Imagine what life would...
Read moreLegal challenge: Air quality campaigners hope new Minister will be a breath of fresh air.
The landmark #CleanAirNI legal challenge returns to court today (01 March 2024), as Northern Ireland’s latest Infrastructure Minister is settling...
Read more15 years of ‘thinning the veil’ between law and activism
“The work of PILS is, so it seems, to be not merely theoretical or confined to legal debates. It has...
Read morePublic Interest Litigation in Northern Ireland
Public Interest Litigation in Northern Ireland is the no-nonsense title of a new research report by Lawmanity.
Read morePILS’ Strategic Plan 2025-2028
Created by: The PILS Staff and Board, in consultation with Mandy Ayres and Monica Golding, October 2024
Read moreBLOG: Whitehead, the oil terminal and what happens next
There aren’t many things that taste better to a public interest litigator than a Café Carberry* coffee after a positive...
Read moreLocal campaigners stop oil terminal plan in its tracks as Council forced to admit mistake
Environmental campaigners in Whitehead, Co Antrim are celebrating a major climbdown by their local council after it admitted not following...
Read moreSupporting the Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal campaign
In April, Mid & East Antrim Borough Council’s decision to grant planning permission for the Cloghan Point oil terminal expansion...
Read moreClimate ‘Code Red’: How Our Courts Can Save the World.
Five things we’ve learned from PILS’ first Climate Justice CPD series.
Read moreWhy is No Gas Caverns such an important public interest case?
Faced with the prospect of having skyscraper-sized gas silos hollowed out under Larne Lough, the Islandmagee community took their challenge...
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