What We Do

front-LEX is challenging EU migration policies through strategic litigation before EU (CJEU), European (ECtHR) and International (ICC) Courts.

Giving advice and providing pro-bono legal representation to individual and organisational victims of EU migration policies, front-LEX aims to bring about policy change, provide remedy to victims and hold those responsible to account.

In 2021-2023:

• We filed the first ever human rights case against Frontex (CJEU).
• We filed the first ever damages lawsuit of a pushback survivor against Frontex (CJEU).
• We filed the first ever case of a pushback of an EU citizen (ECtHR).
• We filed a case concerning the push-back policy at the Evros river (ECtHR). 
• We filed a legal pre-action to oblige the EU Commission to dismiss Frontex’s ex-Director Fabrice Leggeri (CJEU).
• We filed a Court motion to oblige Frontex to disclose the damning OLAF report against Frontex (CJEU).
• We filed a legal pre-action against the new Frontex Director Aija Kalnaja to immediately suspend or terminate Frontex’s operations in the Aegean Sea Region, inter alia based on the OLAF report (CJEU).
• We continue working with our partners on the pending case against European officials implicated with Crimes Against Humanity in connection with EU policy in the Central Mediterranean and Libya (ICC).