The CrowdJustice Blog

I wasn’t sure we should upload a case to CrowdJustice. For a number of reasons I thought it might not work. But a supporter recommended I look into it and so I stayed up one night poking around on their website, reading about their approach, seeing their successes…and I signed my organization up. I figured we could dip our toe into the water and see what happened. Read more

As legal forces prepare to ramp up a critical fight for fair elections, it's important that these efforts be responsive to, and inclusive of, the very citizens who are threatened by gerrymandering's corrosive effects. Read more

While technology is often used to describe possible futures, organizations can use tech right now to bring a more personal approach to our legal system. Read more

Dr. Chris Day is a junior doctor who has been battling through the justice system with a case that could have enormous impact for anyone who is in a “triangular employment” arrangement – anyone who has been recruited by one organisation to work for another. Read more

On Friday January 28th, President Trump issued an Executive Order commonly referred to as the “Muslim Ban,” abruptly bringing the immigration system to its knees and instilling fear and chaos into the lives of thousands of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. Within a few hours, the Legal Aid Justice Center was in the middle of national news. Read more

Last week, our Smart TVs suddenly became a little bit sinister after WikiLeaks published the biggest tranche of documents from inside America’s security services since whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations. Read more

The Miller case concerned much more than Brexit – it was about whether the Government could take away rights using prerogative powers without Parliamentary authority. Read more

This is the first time the Supreme Court has upheld a complaint of discrimination on grounds of marital status. Denise will now be entitled to a survivor’s pension. The judgment is also likely to lead to changes to rules which discriminate against cohabitees in many other pension schemes. Read more

We are not a political platform, but we are certainly launching in an American political climate that is deeply polarized – as citizens in the US and beyond consider a new era of governance, and how to achieve concrete change between election cycles. Read more

When on 24 June 2016, the yes/no referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU resulted in a “no”, Grahame Pigney, a British former IT consultant living in France, felt disenfranchised – and not one to sit around, decided that he ought to take action. Read more