About Us

About Al Adli

Al Adli is not your average legal service. We’re a radical abolitionist collective grounded in the belief that the law should serve liberation — not oppression, not punishment, and certainly not the state’s control over our lives.

We fight alongside communities targeted by the criminal legal system, broken family courts, and systemic racism. Our work isn’t about patching up broken systems. It’s about dismantling them. We reject carceral solutions and instead build community power, alternatives, and real accountability.

What We Stand For

• Abolition, not reform. Prisons, police, and punitive family courts are tools of social control. We work to end them and create justice that heals instead of harms

• Intersectional justice. We centre Black, brown, queer, disabled, migrant, and working-class people — those most brutalised by the state.

• Human rights with teeth. We use the law strategically but never forget it’s only one battlefield in a wider struggle for freedom.

• Community defense. Whether it’s supporting someone facing criminal charges, fighting abusive state interventions in families, or defending migrant rights, we stand with people — not institutions.
  
  

How We Work

• Direct support: Legal advice and representation rooted in your reality, not jargon or false promises.

• Know your rights: Accessible education so people can defend themselves and each other without relying on the state.

• Political advocacy: Campaigns that challenge the very systems of oppression — policing, detention, family separation, and more.

• Building alternatives: Partnering with community groups to create support systems that don’t punish but protect and empower.
  
  

Why “Al Adli”?

Justice isn’t delivered by courts or cops. Justice is what we build together — solidarity, care, resistance. “Al Adli” means justice in Arabic. We take it as a call to action — to make justice real, collective, and revolutionary.