CrowdJustice

The startup selects public interest cases and invites the public to fund them. Through the CrowdJustice platform people can raise funds for their legal matters, and build a community of support as they move through the legal system. Unfairness in the UK justice system has meant that it doesn’t work for everyone. In 2015 that prompted lawyer Julia Salasky to leave the security of her job to create a new type of access to justice and launched CrowdJustice, a crowdfunding platform for public interest litigation. Some of the most famous cases involving CrowdJustice, which expanded to the U.S. in 2017, have included a legal challenge to establish that the UK's parliament must vote on the outcome of Brexit, and in another case to fund Stormy Daniels' legal costs against President Donald Trump. As a commercial litigator at Linklaters, where she did a lot of pro bono work, Salasky had seen at first hand how difficult it was for ordinary people to access legal services. “What CrowdJustice offers is an opportunity to bring people together and take on the fight.” says Salasky.