2020-2021 Projects

These are the projects for 2020/2021 academic year. The student directors of the CPP for this academic year were Katja Achermann, Alexandra Allen-Franks, Ana Leticia Magini, Rebecca Freund, Darren Peterson and Matthew Psycharis.

Access to Justice Foundation

The CPP undertook a project for the Access to Justice Foundation on pro bono costs. The aim of the project was to gauge awareness amongst practitioners, legal advice clinics and the judiciary of the pro bono costs scheme in s.194 Legal Services Act 2007. The Foundation is the charity designated by the legislation for receipt of pro bono costs, which it then distributes to organisations that provide free legal assistance. It is hoped that the information gathered as a result of this project can be used to identify practical ways in which to increase awareness of and applications for pro bono costs.

The project lead was Alex Allan. Project researchers were Pragya Sinha Kumar, Ada De Blas-Pascual, Fabian Nentwig, Nicholas Goldrosen, Eve Loveman, Emilios Hadjiandreou, Shivana Agarwal, David Lipson, Peter Nixon and Janet Wong.

The faculty advisor for this project was Professor Neil Andrews.

You can read what the Access to Justice Foundation had to say about the report here.

REDRESS

The Project Managers were a PhD candidate, Dafni Lima, and two LLM students, Louise Majetschak and Abhijit Desai. The research team consisted of Maaha Elahi, Matilda Titeca, Emraan Azad, Faryal Shafi, Racheal Mullally, Adaena Sinclair-Blakemore and Célestine A.-M. Robert.

The team was advised by Dr Stephanie Palmer.

International Lawyers for West Papua

ILWP is a network of legal professionals who work towards the realisation of West Papua’s right to independence, as well as the strengthening and preservation of other human rights. ILWP helps the indigenous people of West Papua exercise their rights.

The Project Managers for this project were two LLM students, Danny Thambar and Natalie Lucas, and one PhD student, Holli Sargeant. The research team included Daniela Arantes-Prata, Sanzi Ciobanu-Dordea, Sarah Honan, Sumedha Sen, Jack Alexander and Martha Wendt.

The team worked in conjunction with Jennifer Robinson, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, on a number of issues concerning potential human rights violations in West Papua. Read a Doughty Street press release about some of the work here.

The team was advised by Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin.

Jimmy's Night Shelter

The CPP’s Jimmy’s Night Shelter Project seeks to equip guests of homeless shelters with the information necessary to comply with the law and enforce their rights. Our group of Cambridge undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD researchers produced a series of educational videos deconstructing the web of legal issues surrounding homelessness. Subjects included knife crime, homelessness, illegal substances, civil rights, and criminal procedure. The material is being used at Jimmy’s and being trialled at other shelters with the aim of empowering guests at Jimmy’s and at shelters across England.

The Project Managers overseeing this work were an LLM student, Neeva Desai, and a PhD candidate, Quentin Schäfer. The research team consisted of Alec Thompson, Felix Parsons, Jack Marshall, Rachel Thorpe-Blair, Vignesh Singh and Zhenbin Zuo.

The team was advised by Dr Jonathan Rogers.

Women's Link Worldwide

The Project Managers were a PhD candidate, Bethan Hall, and an LLM student, Hannah Ghulam Farag.

The team was advised by Dr Stephanie Palmer.

Human Dignity Trust

The Project Managers were a PhD candidate, Dora Robinson, an LLM student, Étienne Lacombe, and an MPhil (Criminology) student, Hannah Szczepanski. The research team consisted of Sumedha Sen, Maaha Elahi, Vignesh Singh, Giulio Pagano, Ross Guinea McIntyre, Supriya Bansai and Cynthia Fernando.

The faculty advisor for this project was Dr Jonathan Rogers.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Project Managers were two PhD candidates, Aradhya Sethia and Ashrutha Rai. The research team consisted of one PhD candidate, Bethan Hall, and four LLM students, Ahmed Farooq, Claudia Manuela Pérez Zapico, Rachelle Lam and Roisin Putti.

The team was advised by Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin.