The CrowdJustice Blog

Julia Salasky, founder of CrowdJustice, on Justice, bikes, John Rawls and community power. Read more

Meet Naho, a research intern with Human Rights Watch UK, who speaks out about the conflicting issues of privacy & freedom of speech in the online arena. A successful blogger, and personal victim of abuse and defamation online, she shares her story and her hopes for reform in this area... Read more

Sometimes, the most banal administrative classification can change someone’s life forever. A tick in a box – international student – can mean the difference between an education for a young, talented person, and a crisis of existential proportions. Read more

Nigar Abdullayev is a star student at Kent University. Her family were granted the right to remain in the UK in 2009 after fleeing war crimes in Azerbaijan. Nigar has built a life in the UK, embracing a new culture and everything that comes with that. Here, she shares her experiences growing up in Britain, and her hopes to continue her education with the help of the law. Read more

Denise Brewster, from Coleraine, describes how it felt to be up against the Government in court, and why she's going to the Supreme Court. Read more

Guest blogger Carol Day is a solicitor and environmental campaigner. She runs the Environmental Planning and Litigation Service (EPLS) at Leigh Day and is a Legal Consultant for the RSPB. She writes here about the vital role of judicial review in environmental cases. Read more

Jamie Potter, partner at Bindmans LLP, writes about the Government's recent fracking policy and what one group is doing to challenge it. Read more

The refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe is raising all sorts of questions – philosophical, political, emotional, and even legal. Amidst some of the dynamic uses of technology that have arisen to try to help people we saw one thing that was both more low-key and potentially very powerful in its own way. Crowdsourcing legal advice. Read more

It’s early August – the UK flirts with summer temperatures, people drift into holiday mode, and slow news days abound. Perhaps that’s how we made it onto several BBC outlets in one week.. Here are five things we learned. Read more

Last month the extraordinary legal case of the Freshwater Five was crowdfunded on CrowdJustice. The sister of Jamie Green tells what it's been like to crowdfund for the next stage in their case, and how it's affected the morale of her brother and his co-defendants. Read more