CrowdJustice is a commercial crowdfunding platform in the United Kingdom and the United States for projects aimed at improving access to the legal system. Overview CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform where individuals, communities or organizations can raise money specifically for legal cases. This platform uses a team of experts to evaluate each campaign to ensure a qualified lawyer has been engaged for that campaign and that all funds go to the lawyer’s client trust account. Originally started in the United Kingdom in 2014, CrowdJustice expanded to the United States in 2017 and moved their headquarters from London to New York City. If a campaign does not meet its minimum tipping point, then donors are not charged. In 2015, CrowdJustice stated that it takes a commission of 5% from the cases it funds and then the credit card company takes an additional percentage. In 2017, the company raised $2 million in a seed round co-led by Venrock and First Round Capital in order to launch operations in the U.S. Notable legal cases United Kingdom Funded in 2015, Jengba (Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association) raised £10,145 to intervene in a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom case on the law of joint enterprise in 2016. It was also the first crowdfunded case brought before the UK Supreme Court. Funded in 2016, the “People’s Challenge” to Brexit campaign raised £170,550 with 4,918 pledges. Once funded, this campaign brought a successful legal challenge to Brexit in 2017 to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom resulting in the court determining an act of Parliament was necessary to trigger any final action. In January 2017, Liberty launched a campaign to raise funds to challenge the Investigatory Powers Act in the High Court, raising more than £53,000 in a week. In April 2018, the High Court issued its ruling on the first part of the challenge, giving the government six months to rewrite core parts of the Act, which it found incompatible with EU law. Liberty's challenge to various parts of the Investigatory Powers Act is ongoing and, in May 2018, they completed a second crowdfunded campaign to support their challenge. In January 2018, the Centre for Women's Justice crowdfunded on behalf of two women who were raped and sexually assaulted by John Worboys for a judicial review against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State for Justice (SSJ) to challenge the decision to