Balance Legal Capital is sponsoring the Ipswich and Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) in their fundraising project ‘Tackling Discrimination in the East’. The project helps people who are the victims of all kinds of unlawful discrimination; with disability, race and pregnancy the most common types of discrimination.
The ISCRE has advised 680 clients since 2013, helping them to win £237,930.58 in compensation and requires sponsorship to bridge a gap between long-term funding provided by the Big Lottery Fund.
CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform built specifically for legal cases, like those being pursued by ISCRE, that gives people or organisations the tools to build a community around a case, and gain financial support to help cases get to court. Its aim is to ensure that everyone can have access to the law, and that funding (or lack of it) should not stand in the way.
Robert Rothkopf, Managing Partner of Balance Legal Capital, said “Balance is proud to partner with CrowdJustice to support the impressive work of ISCRE and its TDE Project. In this era of limited legal aid, pro-bono legal charities such as ISCRE are more important than ever in enabling those lacking their own resources to assert their rights. We think that all participants in the legal industry, including commercial litigation funders like us, have a role to play in promoting access to justice at the grass roots level.”
Follow these links for more information on CrowdJustice or for the ISCRE fundraising page.
Robert Rothkopf provided a funder’s view on group and class action proceedings in the UK for the Houthoff Class Action Survey 2024. The survey offers perspectives on class action trends in 12 jurisdictions.
Robert’s predictions for the future of class actions in the UK included the expansion of claim types that will be permitted under the opt-out jurisdiction, and confirmation of the court’s jurisdiction to order defendants to pay litigation funding costs on top of damages where defendant wrongdoing and/or litigation conduct is egregious, instead of claimant’s meeting funding costs from compensation.
Thanks to Houthoff for their initiative in leading this important research.
Balance is proud to share that we are supporting the Justice and Equity Centre (formerly the Public Interest Advocacy Centre) in its pursuit of strategic social justice litigation.
Balance is proud to support Velitor Law in their pursuit of landlords and insurance brokers for secret commissions.
Balance is proud to have been ranked again in the Chambers and Partners 2024 Litigation Support Guide in both the UK and Australia.
Robert Rothkopf, has been invited to speak at The Commercial Litigators Forum panel event discussing The Post Office Case on 12 June 2024.
Balance is a member of the Association of Litigation Funders of England & Wales. Our membership of the ALF requires us to satisfy on an ongoing basis stringent financial and capital adequacy tests and to comply with the ALF Code of Conduct.
Balance is a founding member of the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia, and a member of ILFA, the International Legal Finance Association.
Balance Legal Capital LLP is authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority.
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