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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...

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Proud 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...

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The 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...

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UK 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...

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PILS x Activist Lawyer

Episode 25 in the Activist Lawyer podcast series – featuring The PILS Project – is out now!

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15 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...

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Tribunal decision lifts shroud of secrecy on Council decision-making

The PILS Project’s reaction to Tribunal ruling on bilingual signage legal advice

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Public Interest Litigation in Northern Ireland

Public Interest Litigation in Northern Ireland is the no-nonsense title of a new research report by Lawmanity.

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PILS’ Strategic Plan 2025-2028

Created by: The PILS Staff and Board, in consultation with Mandy Ayres and Monica Golding, October 2024

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BLOG: 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...

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Local 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...

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Supporting 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...

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Climate ‘Code Red’: How Our Courts Can Save the World. 

Five things we’ve learned from PILS’ first Climate Justice CPD series.

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Why 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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NI’s Illegal Migration Act cases: the part we played in the disapplication decision 

Northern Ireland’s legal challenges to the Illegal Migration Act have grabbed headlines. Read on to discover why PILS was proud...

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