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📌How to use PLP’s Learning Portal
If you are new to PLP’s learning portal, watch this quick 3-minute tutorial to learn how to navigate and make the most of it!
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Working with communities through judicial review and public law
This session looks at a range of public law legal processes, from judicial review, to consultations, and inquests, to show how lawyers can work effectively with communities to enable their rights a...
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Judicial Review and Strategic Litigation for Charities, NGOs and Campaign Groups
A training designed for charities, NGOs and campaign groups who may be interested in bringing or intervening in legal cases to support their strategic objectives.
Costs and funding in judicial review
Six practical, bite-size seminars delivered online via Zoom over three days covering costs and funding in judicial review (JR).
Public Law Project Annual Conference 2025
PLP’s conference returns for a day of expert analysis, insight, and forward-looking discussion on strengthening the constitution.
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How to use public law to help your clients
The aim of this seminar is to help people identify when a person or group of people are affected by the decision-making of a public body, and what they can do about it.
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How to build a just and dignified immigration system
The panel will look at both fundamental changes and reform, including to asylum accommodation, funding legal advice and casework, as well as looking ahead to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigra...
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Making the law accessible
Our panel discusses ways we can we address gaps in people’s knowledge about their rights and empower communities to take action.
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What the f*** does that mean? A beginner’s guide to judicial review
Our panel talk through the practical and legal processes of challenging the decision making of Government and public bodies through the courts.
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Judicial review: Introductory Principles
Our speakers talk through the basic principles of judicial review.
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Costs in judicial review
Our speakers address Cost Capping Orders (CCOs), costs for interveners and interested parts, and costs in interim relief.
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Challenging refusals of legal aid funding
Challenging refusals of legal aid funding using judicial review, human rights and public interest arguments.
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Developing strategies for influencing, messaging and gathering intel
With speakers from leading UK NGOs including PLP, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Liberty and Runnymede using practical examples from their own work….
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Crowdfunding and litigation funding for a JR
Speakers from Crowdjustice, Duncan Lewis and University of Sheffield use practical examples and research to explain crowdfunding and litigation funding in judicial review.
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Duty of Candour and the courts approach to disclosure in proceedings
This is a two part seminar. The first part looks at a Nuffield Foundation funded empirical study on judicial treatment of the duty of candour, the second part looks at recent caselaw and the overla...
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Making Subject Access Requests (SARs) Masterclass
An introduction and masterclass on making a Subject Access Requests (SARs), including the right of access, personal data, third party rights and exemptions.
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Appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
This session looks at practicalities, preparation, representation and standing in an appeal to The European Court of Human Rights.
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Systemic legal challenges
This seminar looks at judicial review claims challenging ‘unfairness inherent in the system itself’ that may give rise to an unacceptable risk of procedural unfairness (or similar cases).
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Impact on litigation – test case strategies
This session looks at how research can inform litigation strategies, and specifically test case litigation, as well as collecting and acting on litigation data.
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Communicating research for impact
This session will use real world examples of how complex ideas and research findings need to be distilled to be communicated to different, and often wider, audiences.
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Co-producing research
This session looks at case studies of research co-production to explore how research benefits from involving individuals in the project who are not researchers, but have interest or experience.
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Legal research for social impact – Opening Conversation
A discussion on why impact matters, drawing on themes for the day including understanding the experience and objectives of communities and movements in designing research projects for social impact...
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Identifying and challenging discrimination in the immigration system
This sessions looks at both the historical context of race discrimination in the immigration system in the UK, as well as practical legal routes to identifying and challenging discrimination.
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Delays in asylum decisions
The session discussed the recently launched legal challenge by Asylum Aid arguing that the Home Office is acting unlawfully by failing to make asylum decisions as soon as possible, and to provide r...
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Steps in a JR claim – from letter before claim to permission
This session is about the procedure of a JR claim, looking at the pre-action steps from letter before claim up to the permission stage.
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Challenging the recovery of benefits overpayments and hardship payments July 2024
The session explains the DWP’s current policy on waiving recovery of benefit overpayments, the impact that overpayment recovery has on claimant benefit awards and the steps that individuals can t...
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Making FOIA & EIR Requests June 2024
Effective use of freedom of information law is essential for holding Government to account and ensuring transparency. This session covers Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Environmental I...
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Claimant Commitments and Benefit Sanctions May 2024
How to get the appropriate Claimant Commitment for your client, avoiding or challenging benefits sanctions, including in the First Tier Tribunal.
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Discrimination in Welfare Benefits May 2024
The seminar looked at using the law and research to expose and challenge discrimination in the welfare benefits system.
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#Publicdisco Special Edition: From Crisis to Empowerment 2024
#Publicdisco 2024 is a special edition of our anti-discrimination conference, co-produced by community activists using the law to fight discrimination and uphold their rights. You can watch the w...
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Legal research for social impact 2023
PLP’s conference on legal research and impact in 2023, exploring the impact agenda, how to define and measure impact, collaboration for co-produced research and more.
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Legal Aid Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) Training
A series of topic seminars to help people accessing the scheme, whether lawyers, advisers or litigants, including a background to the scheme and guides to making ECF applications in specific areas....
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Book launch: Experiments in Automating Immigration Systems
This is a recording of part of the book launch for Experiments in Automating Immigration Systems by Dr Joe Tomlinson and Jack Maxwell.
