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Scottish Just Law Centre

What We Do

The Scottish Just Law Centre aims to reduce discrimination and disadvantage in Scotland by helping people use equalities and human rights law as an effective tool for social change. 

The Equality Act 2010 clarified and strengthened the existing anti-discrimination law a decade ago. However, disabled people, and people with other protected characteristics, still regularly experience the discriminatory acts and omissions of public bodies, public service providers and employers.  

People have enforceable rights under the Equality Act that would enable them to challenge these discriminatory acts and omissions but, nonetheless, there remain substantial gaps in their access to such justice.

We therefore aim to promote access to justice for people experiencing discrimination by raising awareness of legal remedies amongst frontline workers in community advice and support organisations and building links between them and lawyers specialising in public law, so that they can assist service users to pursue strategic litigation as an effective way of tackling discriminatory law, policy and practice. 

Our SJLC senior solicitor will be one of the public law specialists undertaking this direct legal case work.   

The centre aims to build and pilot a model that works for Scotland, drawing learning from the PILS Project in Northern Ireland, the Public Interest Law Centre and Public Law Project in England & Wales, and the Public Interest Law Alliance in the Republic of Ireland.  

It will initially focus upon disability justice and transgender justice, before extending the work to cover discrimination stemming from the other protected characteristics. 

Who We Are

We are working in partnership with Inclusion Scotland to develop and deliver our work focusing on disability justice, and with Scottish Trans Alliance, with respect to our focus on transgender justice.

We are accepting referrals from organisations that assist individuals, for legal casework that fits within our strategic priorities.  You can read more about our strategic priorities here.

To make a referral, or for any other enquiries, email us: SJLC@justrightscotland.org.uk.

Any press enquiries should be sent to: press@justrightscotland.org.uk.  

Our Funder 

We are grateful to The Baring Foundation for funding the development and launch of the SJLC.

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JustRight Scotland is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC047818) which provides legal services through its limited liability partnership, JustRight Scotland LLP which trades as JustRight Scotland (SO305962). This firm has been authorised to act as solicitors by the Law Society of Scotland (Registered No 53703). Our Registered Office is: Suite 3.1, Forsyth House, 111 Union Street, Glasgow, G1 3TA.

 

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Room 1, 1st Floor
Libertas House
39 Saint Vincent Place
Glasgow   G1 2ER

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