CrowdJustice success stories
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GB£12,290 RaisedFrom 5000 initial target
Help us challenge the government’s inadequate climate strategy
In February 2024, environmental charity Friends of the Earth, alongside the other claimants ClientEarth and Good Law Project, took the government to court and won for not doing enough to meet its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions Friends of the Earth describe the victory: “This landmark legal ruling says the government’s plan to cut carbon emissions is unlawful. Crucially, the judge has also ordered the government to re-write the plan. We believe this adds huge weight to our demand for a credible new plan. One that achieves our climate targets and shares the benefits of climate action fairly.”
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GB£104,259 RaisedFrom 98000 initial target
Post Office Destroyed Hundreds of Subpostmasters Lives
From 1999-2015, 750 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were prosecuted for false accounting and theft based on incorrect information provided by faulty computer software called Horizon. Some of the accused were sent to prison, while others were left in financial ruin. After years of campaigning and legal action by the victims, the government announced plans to quash the wrongful convictions and implement a compensation scheme.
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GB£301,399 RaisedFrom 30000 initial target
Julian Assange’s High Court fight against extradition
Julian Assange fought extradition from the UK to the US for more than 10 years, after his website Wikileaks website published confidential US documents which disclosed information about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Stella Assange, human rights lawyer and wife of Julian Asssnage, has said: “Press freedom groups consider the indictment against Julian the single gravest threat to press freedom in the US, the UK and Europe, because of its extraterritorial nature. It is the first ever indictment of a publisher under the US Espionage Act."
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GB£5,019 RaisedFrom 5000 initial target
Make Food Waste Count!
Campaigning charity, Feedback’s legal challenge caused the government to U-turn on what they described as “the reckless decision to scrap plans for mandatory food waste measurement.” The government has now re-pledged to “introduce a groundbreaking new food waste law to make businesses measure and publish their food waste.” Feedback say that: “In the UK, some 10.4 to 13 million tonnes of food are wasted annually, equivalent to up to one-third of the country's 40 million tonnes of yearly food imports. Halving UK food waste would save close to 1 million hectares of cropland domestically and overseas which could produce enough potatoes and peas to feed 28% of the UK's population their yearly calories.”
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GB£64,266 RaisedFrom 10000 initial target
Liberty - defending democracy through the courts
"In 2023, the Government proposed changing the definition of ‘serious disruption’ in protest law to mean ‘more than minor’ – giving the police almost unlimited powers to crack down on any protests they don’t like. Parliament voted down the proposal. Unhappy with that decision, the Home Secretary at the time, Suella Braverman, forced through that exact same change – going directly against Parliament’s decision! That is not what democracy looks like. And so Liberty decided to take the Home Secretary to court.” The case won in May 2024 with the Guardian commenting in an Op Ed that: “ Liberty ought to be congratulated for standing up for all our rights.” The Government is appealing.
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GB£204,900 RaisedFrom 20000 initial target
Huge money, weird counterparties, duff product - and no transparency
A cross-party group of MPs, Caroline Lucas (Green), Debbie Abrahams (Labour) and Layla Moran (LibDem), alongside Good Law Project launched legal action against the Government for “its persistent and unlawful failure to disclose details of COVID-related contracts”.They won their case in the High Court with the judge ruling that “the Secretary of State acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the Transparency Policy”. The case was funded by almost 8,000 CrowdJustice backers who came together to demand government transparency.
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GB£80,220 RaisedFrom 25000 initial target
Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Campaigners including archaeologists and environmental groups won a high court battle to prevent a controversial road project going ahead that included a tunnel near Stonehenge. The group argued that “the new road and tunnel would cause massive and irreparable damage to the archaeology and landscape in violation of the UK’s international commitments to safeguard the site for future generations.”
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GB£23,139 RaisedFrom 5000 initial target
Stop the Home Office expanding Yarl’s Wood
A local resident of Bedford took legal action to challenge the Home Office’s plan to house up to 200 asylum seekers in camp-style accommodation at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. The claimant argued that Yarl’s Wood was “not a suitable place for asylum seekers who have fled countries where there is war and conflict, or who may be survivors of torture or trafficking”. After reaching their initial target in just 8 hours, the legal case went on to be successful in court and the Home Office withdrew its plans.
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GB£29,483 RaisedFrom 25000 initial target
Did air pollution kill my nine-year old daughter?
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah believes that air pollution was the primary contributing factor to the death of her daughter, Ella. She launched a legal challenge to reopen the inquest into her death to include evidence on the impact of air pollution. We collaborated with Rosamund on a powerful video as her deadline approached that increased by 43% over a single weekend smashing through the initial target and enabling her to continue the legal campaign.
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GB£77,480 RaisedFrom 10000 initial target
Help National Gallery Educators seek justice at Employment Tribunal
27 gallery educators, dismissed from the National Gallery with no recognition of their history of employment, came together to take legal action by bringing a case of unfair dismissal. We offered strategic campaigning and media advice at launch and ongoing advice on backer communication and stakeholder engagement throughout the campaign. With stunningly creative content and determined social media campaigning, the group were successful in their raise, generated high profile national media coverage all of which resulted in legal victory.
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GB£6,155 RaisedFrom 2000 initial target
A GCSE in BSL to be developed and introduced without delay
Daniel Jillings, a 12 year boy who is deaf and uses British Sign Language, launched a legal challenge to force the government to include BSL as an accredited GCSE. The campaigns team pitched and facilitated a multimedia piece in MetroUK with a video story of Daniel explaining his case using BSL. In the wake of the coverage gained in MetroUK - a widely shared online source of news and opinion content - the funding total saw a 50% increase.
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GB£12,015 RaisedFrom 6000 initial target
Stop Arming Saudi
On January 21, Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse broke into BAE System’s Warton Airbase to try and disarm warplanes being sold to Saudi Arabia. They argued the Saudi regime are using those planes in their bombing campaign that is devastating Yemen and took action to prevent crimes against humanity. They were charged with criminal damage, plead not guilty and with the help of CrowdJustice backers were acquitted and described by District Judge James Clarke as “impressive and eloquent men”.
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GB, London£34,500 RaisedFrom 5000 initial target
Justice for Jeroen Ensink
Jeroen Ensink was tragically murdered by a man who had previously suffered from psychiatric illnesses. His wife, Nadja, sought justice and accountability through an inquest, but could not afford to do it alone. Through her crowdfunding campaign, hundreds of people stand by Nadja and are helping her get the answers she deserves.
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GB£100,010 RaisedFrom 50000 initial target
Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI is a campaign group which fights for the rights of women born in the 1950s affected by changes to their State Pension Age. In a remarkably successful campaign, they raised funds to support both a judicial review and other legal complaints – hitting their target in just three days.
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GB, London£170,550 RaisedFrom 50000 initial target
Keeping Democracy Accountable
The People's Challenge to the Government regarding Brexit, which crowdfunded £170,550 from nearly 5,000 people, went all the way to the Supreme Court and ultimately confirmed that an Act of Parliament was needed before Article 50 could be triggered. Read the full story
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