“…I felt people were taking us a wee bit more seriously…because we had this backing of yourselves…”
Public interest litigation or legal tools aren't a substitute for campaigning. They are a powerful complement.
🎙️Deena Nimick & Wesley McGrady talk to To Be Fair NI about their collaboration:
24.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Deena and Wesley are smiling directly at the camera. The PILS logo appears on a teal green background, with the To Be Fair NI podcast title in hot pink capital letters.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎧
Today, To Be Fair NI features a candid conversation with CILNI’s Deena Nimick and barrister Wesley McGrady.
It's about solidarity, collaboration & the change that can be achieved when human rights activists team up with pro bono lawyers.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-b98nh-19cab45
20.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"First of all, in my previous life, I was a linguist before I became a barrister."
In the first episode of #TBFNI, barrister Iryna Kennedy reflects on how her background in linguistics shaped her pro bono collaboration w/ @cnagaeilge.bsky.social @cajni.bsky.social
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uupq3-...
18.11.2025 10:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Iryna, Una and Cuisle are all smiling directly at the camera. The PILS logo appears on a teal green background, with the To Be Fair NI podcast title in hot pink capital letters.
We’re back! 🎙️ To Be Fair NI returns with stories of hope, collaboration & legal changemaking.
In Ep1, Cuisle Nic Liam, Úna Boyd & Iryna Kennedy talk bilingual signage, language rights & testing new legal ground.
Éist: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uupq3-19bf11b
@cnagaeilge.bsky.social @cajni.bsky.social
13.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🆕Podcast Alert🆕
To Be Fair NI returns for Series 2 on Thurs 13 Nov 2025.
Join us for special #WeDoProBono interviews, reuniting incredible activists and Pro Bono Register lawyers.
Justice is a team sport. @cajni.bsky.social @cnagaeilge.bsky.social @probonoweekuk.bsky.social #CILNI #BarofNI
06.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Downloads and Resources - The PILS Project
🔗 pilsni.org/downloads/#k...
Designed to meet the needs of local human rights defenders and launched in 2025, the guide was a collaborative project between:
@pilsni.bsky.social
@cajni.bsky.social
@ejni.bsky.social
@friendsofearthni.bsky.social
04.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Emma's laptop screen shows the live stream of the UK PBW launch event from London.
The lovely forest green cover of the Protest Guide.
At last night’s #ProBonoWeek UK launch, there was a powerful reminder that legal pro bono takes many forms.
The Know Your Rights to Protest guide, created with 5 pro bono barristers, shows how legal skills can meet grassroots needs here in NI.
Link in comments. #WeDoProBono
04.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🗓️One week to go!
Join @pilsni.bsky.social and our @probonoweekuk.bsky.social colleagues across Scotland, England and Wales as we celebrate 'Pro Bono in Action'.
Check out the #UKPBW event calendar: probonoweek.org.uk/events
#WeDoProBono
27.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍂Our first Autumn Social brought together communities, human rights activists and legal professionals to celebrate the power of public interest litigation.🍂
A huge thanks to @john-wadham.bsky.social, Belfast Exposed, Yallaa, musicians Maureen Walker & Brendan Kerr and photographer Alisa Lymanska.
27.10.2025 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Court allows legal challenge over Stormont’s failure to deliver Irish language strategy
Conradh na Gaeilge asked for judicial review over lack of progress on initiative agreed in 2006
📰Community News/Nuacht ó Chomhphobal📰
Our NGO members @cnagaeilge.bsky.social will return to court in 2026, challenging Stormont's failure to deliver an Irish Language Strategy.
Reaction from Dr Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh ⬇️ #PublicInterestLitigation #JudicialReview
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
24.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you'd like to break out of a 'linear thought cage' at the start of the week, then the latest episode of the Save Our Sperrins podcast is what you need.
🎙️James Orr @friendsofearthni.bsky.social shares his own inimitable blend of wisdom, rebellion and solidarity: buttonsoptions4u.podbean.com
20.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Microsoft Forms
Doors open for our Autumn Social at 17.30 tonight!
💫 Guest speaker: John Wadham
💫 Venue: Belfast Exposed
💫 Live music from Maureen Walker and Brendan Kerr
💫 Food by Yallaa
💫 In a room full of creative, courageous activists and lawyers
Last chance to RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
16.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PILS Autumn Social 2025 - The PILS Project
Our Autumn Social is this Thursday!
Enjoy an evening of community, conversation & celebration with fellow @pilsni.bsky.social members & supporters. 🍂
Reserve your spot before registration closes:
🔗 pilsni.org/events/pils-autumn-social-2025/
#HumanRights #PublicInterestLitigation #HRA #HRA25
13.10.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🆕 Community power in action!🆕
All seven of the mineral prospecting licences granted by the Department for Economy earlier this year have now been *relinquished*.
@pilsni.bsky.social are proud to support #SaveOurSperrins, backed by pro bono barrister Leona Askin.
#WeDoProBono
03.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Human Rights Act, which became UK law on 2nd October 2000.
The Human Rights Act (HRA) incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (whose 75th anniversary is also this year) into UK law, giving people…
02.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
FYI: today = UK #HRA Human Rights Act's 25th birthday.
In this milestone month, PILS invite you to a celebration of #HumanRights & the people who defend them.
Autumn Social - 16 Oct - 17.30 @ Belfast Exposed
✨ Special guest: @JohnWadham
✨ Live music, exhibitions & good food
02.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The front cover of CAJ's newest publication titled "The Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights: Explainer". The cover includes this title as well as a partially covered image of 'The Treaty Series' agreement for the Belfast Agreement.
A new report by @colinmurray.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social explains claims the UK could leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement are “not credible.”
caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...
16.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Next Tuesday, the Know Your Rights to Protest Guide will be launched in Derry.
Join us, @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social @cajni.bsky.social @a4cderry.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social @friendsofearthni.bsky.social
➡️If you're a NW-based organiser, sign up today: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...
16.09.2025 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@all4choice.bsky.social @cajni.bsky.social @ppr-org.bsky.social @friendsofearthni.bsky.social @housingrightsni.bsky.social @childlawcentre.bsky.social @lawcentreni.org @activistlawyerpod.bsky.social @phoenixlaw.bsky.social @maddenfinucane.bsky.social @ulsterunischlaw.bsky.social @qublaw.bsky.social
12.09.2025 11:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the expertise of human rights activists combines w/ legal knowledge to make life better in Northern Ireland, the feeling is electric!
⚡️Join us to celebrate these #PublicInterest defenders.⚡️
Thurs 16 Oct - 17.30 - @BelfastExposed
RSVP: pilsni.org/events/pils-autumn-social-2025/
12.09.2025 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The protest guide is held up by a guest at the Belfast launch, with other guests chatting in the background.
Our right to protest must be protected!
Join us for the Derry launch of 'Know Your Rights to Protest'. It's the first NI-specific guide on the topic, written for local organisers.
🗓️23 Sept @ 17.30 @museumfreederry.bsky.social
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@friendsofearthni.bsky.social
@ejni.bsky.social
09.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Join changemakers, activists, and lawyers at PILS' Autumn Social 2025!
🗓️Thurs 16 Oct 2025 @ 17.30
📍Belfast Exposed
🗣️Special guest speaker: @john-wadham.bsky.social
Registration is open NOW. pilsni.org/events/pils-autumn-social-2025/
#PublicInterestLitigation #HumanRights #PILSAutumnSocial
04.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✍️"It is unlikely any of these changes would have happened without the intervention of IEF supported by PILS, through which... IEF were able to secure the representation & expertise of Brian Moss (Worthingtons Solicitors) & Steven McQuitty KC."
#PublicInterestLitigation #WeDoProBono #JudicialReview
02.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣Public Interest Update 📣
@iefni.bsky.social's efforts have paid off!
As IEF's statement notes, they believe the legal process secured significant improvements to the original #IntegratedEducation strategy.
02.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI: @cajni.bsky.social, HRC and @ppr-org.bsky.social on the #ECHR & #GFA ⬇️
"This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections. It self-evidently requires that rights protections of the ECHR itself operate in NI...".
02.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kate Barry (PILS) is standing in the middle of a large room, surrounded by PILS members sitting at round tables, taking notes.
PILS' training needs survey 2025
When our members had Q's about navigating the #FreedomOfInformation process, PILS partnered w/ @infocommission.bsky.social to run a FREE training session.
PILS design training for our members, *with* our members!
Tell us your training needs today: forms.office.com/e/TDWJQyn1Zd
01.09.2025 09:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Commissioner @ScotHumanRights. Policy & Comms @CorraScot.
https://monkey-puzzle.medium.com/
Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.
Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Loves puffins. Dreams of Skomer. Writing novel 2. First slowly. Then faster.
Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Shortlisted - Paul Foot Award 2023.
Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
Press: press@transactual.org.uk
Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
Pupil barrister at Goldsmith Chambers interested in human rights and public law, views my own (she/her)
#SilenceIsNotAnOption #IAmAnActivistLawyer - #Barrister and Human Rights Activist -Head of Immigration, Public Law & Civil Liberties @33bedfordrow-Adjunct Professor @southamptonlawschool -#LegalCommentator -- #QueerRefugees #IAmAnImmigrant- #DachshundDad 🏳️🌈
Public law, human rights, access to justice, legal aid, Legal Director @publiclawproject.bsky.social, views mine
head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth Scotland
keeping fossil fuels in the ground
#ClimateJustice #JustTransition| she/her
On here sporadically at best
(Views here my own and may not represent my employer etc)
Scotland's national refugee charity. Celebrating diversity and raising awareness about issues faced by refugees. Co-ordinators of #RefugeeFestScot.
scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
We work to inspire greater awareness and understanding of the power of children’s human rights.
https://linktr.ee/ChildrensParliament
Activists informed by reproductive justice principles, fighting for abortion across Ireland - with a particular focus on north west & rural areas.
www.allianceforchoiceni.org
PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own.
Cycling. Public Historian.
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
Law for Humans I We believe that law should be designed to work for all people, equally
refugee advocacy. border abolitionist. against the detention estate ~ campaigner with No to Hassockfield: https://www.notohassockfield.org.uk/
Writing about climate, environmental and human rights law. Assistant prof in Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology, Ireland. She/her
The Museum of Free Derry focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s in Derry. It tells the people’s story of government oppression, the struggle for civil rights, the descent into conflict, Free Derry and Bloody Sunday. https://museumoffreederry.org/
Community-based registered charity, focused on promoting human rights and conflict transformation, locally, nationally and internationally. Founder and owner of the Museum of Free Derry.
