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The PILS Project is an independent organisation established in May 2009 which seeks to advance human rights and equality in Northern Ireland through the use of and support for public interest litigation.
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About PIL
Public interest litigation is defined as the use of litigation, or legal action, which seeks to advance the cause of minority or disadvantaged groups or individuals, or which raises issues of broad public concern.
Put simply, it is a way of using the law to create and sustain social change for the most vulnerable in our society by pursuing litigation that can have an impact beyond one individual; litigation that will have a knock on effect to protect and promote the rights of a wide number of disadvantaged of people or groups.
Recent news
The PILS Project seminar!
In the context of continuing deep cuts in budgets and public services the PILS Project and the Equality Coalition are co-hosting a FREE seminar on 2nd March 2012 to facilitate discussion on ways of strategically challenging cuts.
Speakers will include Michael O’Flaherty, Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Louise Whitfield, Associate with Pierce Glynn Solicitors in London, Mark McEvoy BL, Clare Jennings, Solicitor with the Public Law Project, Sinead Mulhern, Law Centre NI and Rachael Hogan BL from the Children’s Law Centre.