Public Law Project

What Public Law Project does

Public Law Project (PLP) is a UK-registered charity and company limited by guarantee (Company No. 2368562, Charity No. 1003342) headquartered in London, operating exclusively in England and Wales. It is a specialist public law organisation that combines casework (including judicial review representation), strategic litigation, policy research, training, and capacity-building for NGOs, lawyers, students, and marginalised individuals. PLP's stated priority areas are constitutional reform, welfare rights, immigration, automation and digitalisation, and legal aid.

PLP's service portfolio is delivered through four core offerings: direct casework services, research publications and policy briefings, a calendar of events and training (headlined by an annual conference and a public interest interventions webinar series), and a Learning Portal built on LearnDash atop WordPress that hosts free courses, webinar recordings, and training materials for public law practitioners. Supporting infrastructure includes standard third-party integrations for payments (PayPal, CAF, Virgin Money Giving), email marketing (Campaign Monitor), and event delivery (Zoom).

Commercially, PLP is not a revenue-driven enterprise. Income is generated through a hybrid of donations, government-funded legal aid, and fee-based events and training (£230–£330 per ticket, with discounted and block-booking tiers plus free bursaries). The organisation holds Lexcel accreditation, is registered with the Fundraising Regulator, and is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board, and the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC Ref n201600013). It is led by Interim CEO Jamie Peters, with Legal Director Victoria Pogge von Strandmann and Director Shameem Ahmad, and is governed by a board of trustees.

Name

Public Law Project

Legal name

Public Law Project Ltd

Website

https://publiclawproject.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Public Law Project is a UK charity that delivers specialist public law casework, strategic litigation, policy research, training, and an online learning portal to individuals, NGOs, lawyers, and students in England and Wales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Interest Law Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Defense & Legal Aid Services (BPAIAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE) (EDAAALAB), Legal & Governance Professional Development (EDAGANAK)

Keywords

• Public interest law
• Access to justice
• Judicial review
• Legal aid charity
• Public law training

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and charitable contributions: PLP relies on donations from supporters to fund its work holding the state to account for marginalised people. They use CAF and Virgin Money Giving for donation processing.
2. Event and conference fees: Revenue from paid conferences and training events including their Annual Conference with ticket pricing for standard and discounted categories.
3. Legal aid funding: Government-funded legal aid for casework services to eligible clients.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

PLP is a legal charity providing public law casework (including judicial review representation) to individuals and organisations, alongside policy research, publications and briefings on constitutional reform, welfare rights, immigration, automation/digitalisation and legal aid. It runs paid and free training events, conferences and webinars, and operates the Learn Portal — an online learning platform built on LearnDash/WordPress — to deliver free courses, recorded webinars and training materials to public law practitioners.

Product overview

Public Law Project is a legal charity offering a unified portfolio of public law services. The core offering includes legal casework (judicial review representation), research and publications on constitutional reform, welfare rights, immigration, and legal aid, plus an events and training division delivering conferences, webinars, and workshops. The Learning Portal (built on LearnDash/WordPress) provides an online platform for recorded training and free courses. These services are designed to work together—research informs casework strategy, training builds practitioner capacity, and the portal provides accessible educational resources for the public law community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Learning Portal Standalone online learning platform hosting free courses, recorded webinars, and training materials for public law practitioners, with user account registration and course progress tracking.
• Casework Services Direct legal representation and casework support in public law matters, including judicial review, for eligible individuals and organisations in England and Wales.
• Events and Training Paid and free conferences, webinars, and training events for public law practitioners, including the annual conference (e.g., 2026 'Law, Democracy & Civic Space') and public interest intervention workshops. Ticketed events include standard (£295-£330), discounted (£230-£245) and free bursary places.
• Publications and Resources Research reports, policy briefings, guides, and submissions published on public law topics including constitutional reform, welfare rights, immigration, automation and digitalisation, and legal aid.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSFK)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026HSFK partnered with PLP for the 2026 Annual Conference 'Law, Democracy & Civic Space'. HSFK is providing venue support (Exchange House, Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EG) and programme speakers.
• Blackstone ChambersflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Blackstone Chambers partnered with PLP for the 2026 Annual Conference, providing speakers for various sessions including top public law cases and breakout discussions.
• Lankelly Chase FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017PLP partnered with Lankelly Chase Foundation in 2017 to explore conditions necessary for successful public law-oriented collaborations and subsequent system change. The partnership supported frontline charities and NGOs across criminal justice, welfare benefits, discrimination, domestic abuse and child protection areas.
• AWO (technology legal consultancy)minorOthersAWO is a leading technology legal consultancy providing pro bono services to PLP to ensure compliance with privacy and data protection standards for online events.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Citizens Advice: Large national UK advice charity network providing wide-ranging free legal and consumer advice. Comparable in mission (access to justice for the public) but far broader in scope, scale, and funding than PLP's specialist public-law focus.

Direct peers

• Advice UK: UK membership body for independent advice charities. Comparable to PLP as a UK access-to-justice infrastructure organisation supporting frontline civil legal services and providing training/resources to advisers.
• Liberty (NCCL): UK human-rights charity that litigates, campaigns, and provides public legal education on civil liberties. Overlaps with PLP on strategic litigation, advocacy on state accountability, and human-rights/public-law training.
• Law Centres Network: UK federation of locally-run Law Centres providing publicly-funded legal advice and representation in social welfare law. Most directly comparable to PLP on access-to-justice casework, serving marginalised individuals with similar legal-aid and charity funding models.
• LawWorks: UK charity connecting volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice and not-for-profits. Comparable to PLP as a UK legal-charity hub that brokers pro-bono capacity and runs training programmes for the legal profession.
• Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA): UK professional association for immigration and asylum lawyers, providing training, resources, and policy input. Comparable to PLP in its training/CLE function for a public-law adjacent specialism and its role in immigration legal-aid advocacy.
• Justice (UK): UK legal charity that combines strategic litigation, research, and policy advocacy to advance access to justice and the rule of law. Closely aligned with PLP's strategic-litigation-plus-research model and its advocacy on judicial review and legal aid.
• Free Representation Unit (FRU): UK charity providing free barristers' representation for those who cannot obtain legal aid. Comparable to PLP in its pro-bono / publicly-funded model of legal representation for marginalised litigants and its training remit for junior barristers.

Emerging players

• Howard League for Penal Reform: UK charity working on criminal justice reform via research, advocacy, and interventions. Comparable in the charity-plus-research-plus-intervention model PLP uses, though focused on criminal rather than administrative/public law.

Regional players

• JUSTICE (US): US-based legal reform organisation working on access to justice, fairness in courts, and judicial independence. Comparable thematically to PLP on rule-of-law and access-to-justice reform, though operating in a different jurisdiction and legal system.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/publiclawprojct
• Facebookfacebook.com/publiclawproject
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/11607886

Compliance4 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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