Pro Bono

Farore Law feels strongly about access to justice. We therefore operate a dedicated pro bono department in our specialist areas of practice through which we have assisted over 40 clients during the last two years, many of whom were subject to numerous injustices, but hampered by the cost of litigation and could not afford to pay.

Our recent pro bono cases have involved racial and sexual harassment, lack of equal pay, and disability discrimination.

The firm’s pro bono work is limited to a very select number of cases per year, which must be referred to us via affiliated charities and other voluntary organisations. Farore Law’s lawyers work closely with Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit) on employment law cases where claimants cannot afford to represent themselves. Such cases are usually confined to those that involve an important point of law, or potential for a test case or class action.

We do not undertake legal aid work.

So far this year, we have undertaken 10 pro bono cases, which has included providing representation before the Employment Tribunal and written advice to pro bono clients on the merits of their claims.

Lucas Nacif this year has appeared pro bono in the London Central Employment Tribunal in October 2023, where he represented a Claimant suffering from HIV and mental illnesses in a Preliminary Hearing to obtain an anonymity order and seek reasonable adjustments for his Final Merits Hearing. Lucas is also due to appear pro bono in Watford Employment Tribunal to resist a strike-out/deposit order application in an associative indirect discrimination claim.

In the last year, Robin Pickard appeared before the Employment Appeal Tribunal via the Free Representation Unit (“FRU”). The case concerns access to justice for litigants in person (“LiPs”) and the extent to which the Employment Tribunal needs to clarify a LiP’s claim(s). Robin successfully argued that the Employment Tribunal had failed to identify and determine his client’s claim relating to her dismissal arising out of discrimination and that this amounted to an error of law. The Respondent has appealed against the EAT’s decision to the Court of Appeal. In July 2023, Robin and Karon Monaghan KC of Matrix Chambers submitted the Claimant’s response to the Court of Appeal. Robin continues to provide representation in this matter.