Cases

It’s more than a year since we teamed up with a cross-party group of MPs to submit a complaint about the climate-sceptic charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation. But the Charity Commission has sat on its hands. We’re taking legal action.   

Good Law Project is making sure the voices and experiences of trans people are heard at the Supreme Court, when a case affecting the freedoms they have relied on for 20 years is heard. 

In early March 2024, Ofcom suggested that the rightwing broadcaster GB News doesn’t have to meet the same impartiality standards as broadcasters with a bigger audience. But we think this two-tier approach is unlawful.

Good Law Project has teamed up with a cross-party group of politicians to demand the Charity Commission take action over the radical rightwing charity the Institute of Economic Affairs.

GambleAware should be helping people quit gambling. Instead it’s propping up an industry that preys on the public. It’s time for the Charity Commission to step up.

The government is putting roadblocks in the way of local councils who want to improve energy efficiency. But we need housing that tackles fuel poverty and the climate crisis.

The Government has been blocking onshore wind since 2015. We’re taking legal action to help spark a revolution in renewable power.

Climate crisis protester is the first to have been sentenced with jail time for the controversial new Section 7 offence. We funded his bail application and will support him to appeal this draconian sentence.

When Dr Aseem Malhotra spread covid vaccine scares, the General Medical Council refused to investigate. Now we’re helping a doctor make sure the regulator does its job.

Good Law Project is supporting Coal Action Network and the local residents they work with living in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, to end the illegal extraction of coal at the Ffos-y-Fran open-cast coal mine.

People trust their healthcare providers with the most intimate kinds of personal information – and the NHS can’t do its job without that trust.

The Home Office has failed to publish a plan to tackle drink spiking. Good Law Project is teaming up with The Gemini Project to challenge their lack of action.

Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth for the second time to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.

Together with Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, we are launching a legal challenge against HMRC to close the £600m ‘carried interest’ loophole in tax paid by private equity fund managers.

We’re planning to bring forward a legal challenge ahead of the next General Election to ensure that the new requirements for photo ID don’t disenfranchise people and deprive them of their democratic rights.

We’re supporting action to defend the rights of protesters and the essential freedoms that hold up our fragile democracy.