Grata Fund

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Grata Fund is a not for profit legal fund based in Australia. It's Australia's first specialist non-profit strategic litigation incubator and funder. Grata develops, funds, and builds sophisticated campaign architecture around high impact, strategic litigation brought by people and communities in Australia. [1] Grata Fund uses a movement lawyering approach, an innovative model of collaborative justice which grew out of the US civil rights movement to build the power of the people. [2]

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The organisation was founded in 2015 [3] by Isabelle Reinecke, [4] [5] [6] and is partnered with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law and Justice. [7] Among the cases supported by the group are those relating to governmental responses to climate change, [8] freedom of information, [9] and matters of gender identity and sex-discrimination. [10]

In financial year 2023, Grata Fund supported 22 cases, and partnered with 6 legal teams and 30 barristers who provided pro bono legal representation and advice. [11] 40% of these cases were led by First Nations people. [11]

Human Rights

In August 2024, Grata Fund celebrated a win in one of their longest-running cases. [12] Grata supported the Eastern Arrernte community of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) in the NT who fought for decent housing. [13] They took the NT government to court in 2015 and won in the High Court of Australia in 2024. [12]

Grata Fund has supported a number of other human rights legal cases including fighting against gag laws that penalised Australian doctors, [14] supporting people locked in refugee detention during COVID-19, [15] and advocating to protect children with disability in school. [16]

Grata Fund also helped to ensure First Nations experts could give evidence in the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson, a Yorta Yorta, Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wiradjuri woman who died in January 2020, after four days in a police cell. [17]

Grata Fund supported Yasir*, a refugee, in challenging Border Force for the harmful use of restraints on those in immigration detention. [18]

References

  1. ↑ "About Grata Fund". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Grata Fund". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  3. ↑ Ginnivan, E. (2016). Public interest litigation: Mitigating adverse costs order risk. Precedent (Sydney, NSW), (136), 22-25.
  4. ↑ Boecker, Brianna (2023). "Five minutes with 2022 WALA not-for-profit leader winner Isabelle Reinecke." Women's Agenda. 28 September 2023. 12 April 2024.
  5. ↑ Reinecke, Isabelle (2023). "Guarding the power of the court in our democracy." The Monthly. 27 October 2023. Accessed 12 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "Our team." Grata Fund. Accessed 12 April 2024.
  7. ↑ "About us." Grata Fund. Accessed 12 April 2024.
  8. ↑ Waite, Angelica (2024). "Who are the people taking their governments to court over climate inaction?" SBS. 6 April 2024. Accessed 12 April 2024.
  9. ↑ Coade, M. (2019). Litigation: Strategic justice. LSJ: Law Society of NSW Journal, (56), 34-37.
  10. ↑ Bastiaan, Stephanie (2024). "Tickle v Giggle womens rights on trial." Women's Forum Australia. April 08, 2024.
  11. 1 2 "Impact Reports". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  12. 1 2 "The Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) community's fight for housing rights". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  13. ↑ "Renters in First Nations community of Santa Teresa win right to compensation". CHOICE. 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  14. ↑ "Doctors4Refugees challenge 'gag laws' about conditions in offshore detention". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  15. ↑ "Supporting people locked in refugee detention during COVID-19". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  16. ↑ "It takes an even bigger village: tackling disability discrimination at school". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  17. ↑ "Inquest into Veronica Nelson's death". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  18. ↑ "Excessive force against refugees". Grata Fund. Retrieved 2025-03-10.


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