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Fight for Safe Drinking Water in Remote Indigenous Communities
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Fight for Safe Drinking Water in Remote Indigenous Communities

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Defend LGBTQ+ Conversion Practices Survivors' Rights
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Defend LGBTQ+ Conversion Practices Survivors’ Rights

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Secure Climate Justice for Torres Strait Islanders
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Secure Climate Justice for Torres Strait Islanders

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Protect Aboriginal Heritage from Destructive Development
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Protect Aboriginal Heritage from Destructive Development

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End Racial Profiling and Police Misconduct
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End Racial Profiling and Police Misconduct

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How Article Two Works

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A client instructs a lawyer about a public interest legal cause, or a law firm identifies a systemic legal issue among their clients.

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Lawyers draft a campaign, with client instructions if necessary.

Review

Lawyers consider feedback from Article Two, with client instructions if necessary.

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Lawyers and clients market the campaign to generate funding, and provide updates when they can.

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“The law now looks favourably on funding arrangements that offer access to justice so long as any tendency to abuse of process is controlled... the present litigation attracts the principle that ‘Public policy now recognises that it is desirable, in order to facilitate access to justice, that third parties should provide assistance designed to ensure that those who are involved in litigation have the benefit of legal representation”
Fostif Pty Ltd v Campbells Cash & Carry Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 83, per Mason P (as his Honour then was), at [105], cited on appeal in the High Court at Campbells Cash and Carry Pty Ltd v Fostif Pty Ltd (2006) 229 CLR 386 at [65], per Gummow, Hayne, and Crennan JJ.
“What the rule of law should promote is access to the courts for all members of the community where they have a grievance that the law recognises as arguable”
Knowles v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2) [2022] FCA 1003, per Mortimer J (as her Honour then was), at [39]
“There is a strong public interest in affected persons being able to test the legal validity of such a step without facing financial ruin or at least severe hardship if the challenge fails. To so hold serves the rule of law”
Kassam v Hazzard; Henry v Hazzard (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1599, Beech-Jones CJ at common law (as his Honour then was), at [11]

What is public interest law?

Public interest law is any practice of law to represent and advocate for the rights and interests of marginalised individuals or groups, or to address matters of broad public concern, or to prevent or reduce the impact of an oppressive policy. Anything legal can be funded, including white papers, law reform advocacy, drafting bills, prospects advice, or litigation.

Human rights, climate, economic justice, regulatory clarity, healthy competition: there is no rule about what can be characterised as public interest.

Article Two broadly accepts campaigns that would improve our community without persecuting already marginalised communities.

Why is your name Article Two?

Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights guarantees:

  1. non-discrimination on any status;
  2. guarantees of legislation and policy to give effect to the rights in the ICCPR; and
  3. right to an effective remedy from a competent court. 

These are the purposes of Article Two.

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Fund Anything Legal
Anything with a legal nexus: solicitors' fees, disbursements, barristers’ fees, expert report fees, filing fees, search fees, translation and interpretation, travel costs, protective costs orders, protection against security for costs orders and adverse costs orders...
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Campaigns are Peer-Reviewed
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