Best Practice Forum
The Best Practice Forum is an online platform that will bring together legal specialists and grassroots activists throughout 2023-24 to explore how legal strategies can support work that is being done to tackle environmental and climate injustice, corporate abuses and malpractice in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The interactive platform offers the space to accelerate the sharing of knowledge, best practices, tools and strategies across jurisdictions, using a range of practical materials that are easily accessible to grassroots activists in their everyday work.
The Best Practice Forum will use a range of methods such as roundtables, one-to-one discussions, webinars, mock trials and legal clinics to provide a space for peer-to-peer learning that is rooted in the vision and specific needs of communities and local experts. It will give grassroots activists and legal specialists the opportunity to learn, discuss and explore strategies for using the law as tool to fight corporate abuse and malpractice and to combat power asymmetries.
Through the Best Practice Forum, we hope to act as a legal incubator where new innovative legal solutions and advancements that respond to global recurrent challenges can be scaled up, spearheaded, tested and shared rapidly across jurisdictions. This reflects the needs of local lawyers, who have expressed through consultations a lack of time and capacity to analyse different legal practices and think outside the box.
Topics and themes
From our consultations with grassroots activists and organisations, we have identified a set of pertinent topics and themes that will guide the activities of the Best Practice Forum. Click on each topic to learn more:
Corporate Governance, Accountability, Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence
Using Foreign Courts to Access Justice
Research Tools for Gathering and Presenting Evidence
Building a Legal Case and Requesting Information
Register your interest
Whether you are a lawyer with expertise in the field of environmental law, corporate accountability or climate justice, or you are a grassroots rights defender seeking to explore new legal approaches and build your legal resilience, please get in touch and express your interest.
