Collaborative Partner
Funder collaborative seeks a legal system that is fairer and more supportive of migrant children and young people in the UK.
The Strategic Legal Fund (SLF) is the only funder in the UK that funds strategic legal work that focuses on the rights of people seeking asylum, refugee’s and migrants, it is also the oldest strategic litigation fund in the UK.
SLF goes beyond securing justice for an individual and makes a significant contribution to promote the rights of migrant groups in the UK. The goal of the SLF is to use the law to effect change by challenging the racism and structural inequalities in the immigration, housing, welfare and educational systems in the UK, thereby achieving wider system reform.
The fund supports pre-litigation research and evidence gathering that is needed to build a test case. It also supports third-party interventions in cases where they assist the court to reach a judgment that protects migrants’ rights. The SLF provides crucial funding to law firms, law centres and NGO’s, for the parts of challenges for which no legal aid is available, thereby building capacity in the sector to develop strategic legal cases.
Strategic litigation is a key tool to effect change and is vital to protect and build an immigration system based on the principles of fairness, equality, human rights, and accessibility, and to create a more humane legal and policy framework.
This collaborative advances Unbound’s System strategy, to support litigation that will stop or revoke unfair policies and improve accountability in the immigration system.
Year Founded
2012
Collaborators
Trust for London, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Legal Education Foundation.
Using strategic litigation to tackle disadvantages faced by vulnerable migrant children and young people
Photo 1: Courtsey of Strategic Legal Fund
Photo 2: Courtesy of Culture Strike