Judicial Peer-To-Peer Learning To Strengthen The Rule Of Law: A Guide
Fair and effective judiciaries are central to strengthening the rule of law, ensuring equitable access to justice and upholding human rights. In many countries, judges and others working within the judiciary face complex challenges and receive limited training, support and professional...
The Rule of Law in Times of Health Crises
The COVID-19 pandemic has again highlighted the close links between authorities’ responses to a health crisis, and the rule of law.
To control the spread of the virus, and to preserve health systems and human lives, governments around the world have limited individual freedoms. They have...
Improving Business and Human Rights (BHR): Mapping the East African BHR Sector
Maximising Technical Assistance to Improve the Rule of Law: A Guide
Legal and judicial experts from the UK and elsewhere can potentially play a very useful role in supporting efforts to strengthen the rule of law and access to justice in developing countries.
Monitoring and Evaluation Toolbox
ROLE UK has produced a guide to the planning, delivery and monitoring of legal technical assistance, for use by legal and judicial experts delivering pro bono work in developing countries.
Political Economy Analysis - Guidance for legal technical assistance
This guidance note is for use by those involved in the design and delivery of pro bono and legal technical assistance projects aimed at advancing the rule of law in developing countries.
Seeking to bring about change in relation to the rule of law requires an understanding of the...
Peer-to-Peer Approaches for Pro Bono Rule of Law Support
This guidance note focuses on a specific type of approach to pro bono work; adopting ‘peer-to-peer’ approaches to the sharing of knowledge, skills and experience between UK legal and judicial experts and their counterparts in developing countries. Peer-to-peer approaches hold significant...
Peer-to-Peer in Action: A Case Study of SIFoCC
In 2018, ROLE UK supported a pair of assignments working with the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC), facilitating an incoming observation visit from judges from three jurisdictions to the UK, and subsequently their participation at the second SIFoCC conference in New York in September 2018. This activity was the first of its kind for SIFoCC, and represented a significant departure from ROLE UK's usual model of assignment support, which typically involves providing assistance to deploy UK pro bono expertise overseas.
Pro bono and the Sustainable Development Goals: A guide for international law firms working with NGOs
This report provides guidance for pro bono providers on how to articulate, monitor and report on the ways in which their pro bono support is contributing to international development, with the aim of assisting firms in maximising this contribution. The guidance note is of particular relevance to...
Aligning Pro Bono with the SDGs: Lessons from the Field
On 22 October 2018, as part of Global Pro Bono Week, ROLE UK, a DFID funded programme of A4ID and Clifford Chance LLP partnered to host an event on "Developing an SDG-centric Pro Bono Programme: Opportunities and Challenges".
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