Strategic Litigation

Strategic Litigation

Fair Trials carries out and supports strategic litigation to bring about changes to laws that promote and protect human rights, including the right to a fair trial. We work with affected individuals, defence lawyers and other organisations to provide legal arguments that will create positive case laws.

Access to Audio Recordings of Intercepted Communications: Fair Trials Files Amicus Brief before the Italian Constitutional Court

24 September 2026

Arguing for a consistent interpretation of key procedural defence rights, Fair Trials has intervened in a constitutional case led by criminal defence lawyer and LEAP Advisory Board Member Nicola Canestrini.

Fair Trials and ECBA Intervention in the First ECtHR Case on ANOM Evidence: Upholding Core Principles when States Work across Borders

Strategic Litigation

Compensation for Wrongful Pre-Trial Detention: Legal Intervention before the Supreme Court of Spain

Strategic Litigation

Fair Trials amicus intervention in Silgir v Germany (No 2): Upholding privacy and fair trial rights when encrypted communications data is shared across borders

Strategic Litigation

Why EncroChat and Sky ECC cases undermine the rule of law

Strategic Litigation

Italian Constitutional Court Rules in Favor of Fair Trials’ Argument on Interpreter Compensation

Strategic Litigation

13 February 2025

Strategic litigation packs

Strategic Litigation

12 December 2022

Case summary: Right to information in European Arrest Warrant proceedings

Strategic Litigation

Plane waiting on tarmac for boarding

Case summary: Health reasons as grounds to refuse execution of an EAW

Strategic Litigation

Fair Trials intervenes at the ECHR in Lamin MINTEH v France

Strategic Litigation

ECHR intervention on right to a lawyer in Przemysław LALIK v. Poland

Strategic Litigation

Person in handcuffs sat opposite lawyer

ECHR: Protect the right to a lawyer

Strategic Litigation

Text reading Interpol Red Notice

Use of Red Notices in US asylum cases

Strategic Litigation

23 February 2021

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