Grata Fund
Australian not for profit legal fund From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grata Fund is a not for profit legal fund based in Australia. It's Australia's first specialist non-profit strategic litigation incubator and funder. Grata develops, funds, and builds sophisticated campaign architecture around high impact, strategic litigation brought by people and communities in Australia.[1] Grata Fund uses a movement lawyering approach, an innovative model of collaborative justice which grew out of the US civil rights movement to build the power of the people.[2]
The organisation was founded in 2015[3] by Isabelle Reinecke,[4][5][6] and is partnered with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law and Justice.[7] Among the cases supported by the group are those relating to governmental responses to climate change,[8] freedom of information,[9] and matters of gender identity and sex-discrimination.[10]
In financial year 2023, Grata Fund supported 22 cases, and partnered with 6 legal teams and 30 barristers who provided pro bono legal representation and advice.[11] 40% of these cases were led by First Nations people.[11]
Human Rights
In August 2024, Grata Fund celebrated a win in one of their longest-running cases.[12] Grata supported the Eastern Arrernte community of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) in the NT who fought for decent housing.[13] They took the NT government to court in 2015 and won in the High Court of Australia in 2024.[12]
Grata Fund has supported a number of other human rights legal cases including fighting against gag laws that penalised Australian doctors,[14] supporting people locked in refugee detention during COVID-19,[15] and advocating to protect children with disability in school.[16]
Grata Fund also helped to ensure First Nations experts could give evidence in the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson, a Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wiradjuri woman who died in January 2020, after four days in a police cell.[17]
Grata Fund supported Yasir*, a refugee, in challenging Border Force for the harmful use of restraints on those in immigration detention.[18]
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