History of PLP
The Public Law Project was set up in 1990 as a public law resource in response to the political changes of the time – the diminishing role of the state as provider, increased privatisation of services, and the growth in public law. PLP was established as a creative, strategic legal resource that could apply its skills not only to achieving the direct enforcement of individual rights, but also to achieving wider change.
From the start, PLP has worked to tackle barriers hindering access to public law remedies, and which therefore exclude groups and individuals from the processes by which the accountability of central and local government, and the many other bodies charged with governmental functions, is maintained.
Founder members of PLP included Kate Markus, Melvin Coleman, Patrick Lefevre, Dave Perry, Hilary Kitchen, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Richard de Friend, Dr Clive Grace, John Wadham, and Lord Justice Stephen Sedley.
To find out more, download PLP’s brochure"The growth of public law and, in particular, judicial review has been one of the most significant developments in the English legal system in the last 25 years."
Lord Woolf in 'Access to Justice' [1996], p250
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