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An investigation by Good Law Project can reveal for the first time the number of greeters deployed at last May’s local elections to help enforce the government’s voter ID rules – and the possible under-reporting of those turned away because they lacked the correct ID.

Last year, during our legal challenge in the High Court, we were told by the government that none of Boris Johnson’s messages from his mobile phone prior to April 2021 were available.

Lochlinn Parker, Director of Good Law Practice, writes on how injunctions are being used to suppress protest in the UK.

The Government has done everything it can to make it as hard as possible to challenge their decisions.

The General Medical Council is investigating retired GP Diana Warner for campaigning against climate change. Good Law Project is supporting her as she argues doctors must take global heating seriously to protect their patients.

Survivors of child sexual abuse during their time in the Scouts fear that ‘systemic failures’ are still putting young people in danger today. Good Law Project is supporting a new campaigning organisation called ‘Yours in Scouting’, which is demanding The Scout Association improves its safeguarding practices.

Guardian News & Media has instructed Howlett Brown, a consultancy specialising in workplace culture, to improve its process for handling current and non-recent claims of sexual misconduct.

Last year, raw sewage was dumped into rivers and coastal areas across England by private water companies for a total of 1.7 million hours – the equivalent of 4,808 hours every single day.  

The extraordinary standoff between the Cabinet Office and the Covid Inquiry over messages sent by Boris Johnson during the pandemic has been quite a drama to witness. 

Watch Lucy Siegle in conversation with Jo Maugham on the British media’s culture of silence around sexual misconduct within its own ranks.

Our Executive Director, Jo Maugham, writes about the power to tell the truth.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Conservative MP, Liam Fox, lobbied the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, on behalf of an advisory group that had paid him £16,000 for just 21 hours’ work. According to reports, Fox wrote to the PM lobbying for a tax break for exporters.

US court documents show how the hedge fund that Sunak worked for used ‘exotic derivatives’ to keep share prices down.

Mustafa Mohammed, who had donated over £230,000 to the Conservative party, lobbied Hancock on behalf of two companies.

The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has refused to reveal the names of the companies on his PM’s Business Council (PMBC). No.10 also refused to release copies of minutes from the PM’s meeting with the group, held last December.

If juries cannot hear all the evidence, justice cannot prevail. Our Executive Director, Jo Maugham, writes on the threat that gagging juries poses to our justice system – and to our planet.