- Legal Unit
Print version4/5 Eustace Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 679 6577
Fax: +353 1 679 6578
ITM Law Centre
Introduction
The ITM Law Centre was set up in 2009 (the ITM Legal Unit from 2003) to counter some of the negative legislative developments that were taking place and assist the ITM in developing strategic legal and policy responses to key issues facing Travellers.
The overall aim of the legal unit is to promote Travellers' human and legal rights as an ethnic minority group within Irish society. The strategic goals of the Unit are:
- To advance the right of members of the Traveller community to access expert legal advice and representation.
- To advance Traveller human and legal rights through the courts and under the various legislative frameworks.
- Developing a range of strategic relationships with relevant bodies to ensure change in the situation of Travellers is achieved.
- To develop the capacity of Traveller organisations to respond to legal issues facing Travellers.
Traveller Legal Resource Pack:
- Introduction
- Section 1: The Irish Legal System
- Section 2: Traveller Culture
- Section 3: Traveller Accommodation
- Section 4: Discrimination
- Section 5: Evictions
- Section 6: Planning
- Section 7: The Gardaí
- Section 8: Sample Forms
TRANSPOSE Project:
Traveller and Roma Advocacy Network Supporting People to Organise
and Secure Equality (TRANSPOSE)
The Transpose project have a website at:
www.traveller-roma-advocacy.com
Legal Education for All Project (LEAP):
This project has engaged disadvantaged communities with the legal process and equipped them to understand, use and work within it by implementing a series of actions devised to facilitate the engagement of the target groups and develop their access routes to legal education and information.
Other resources
Legal Unit Strategic Plan 2003-2006: