Overview
The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) ensures its legal content is high-quality, relevant, and trustworthy to support decarbonisation and nature-positive outcomes.
Our standards
- Our content aligns with supporting ambitious decarbonisation targets.
- It is rigorously quality-assured to guard against greenwashing and unintended adverse impacts, such as hindering a just transition.
- Practical, plain-language content accessible to diverse audiences including C-suite, corporate governance teams, procurement professionals and in-house and private practice legal advisors.
Our approach
A structured, risk-based method balances regular updates and expert input while considering changing legal and market conditions. This balances the need to keep our legal content up to date, high calibre, leveraging expert insights, and minimising administrative challenges.
What we maintain
We focus on maintaining high quality core content, which includes: our guides; a prioritised subset of clauses frequently used to meet climate targets; and glossary terms.
All content is timestamped to indicate its last review date. Some clauses are not routinely maintained (so carry an older timestamp) but remain in our library as valuable examples of how contract clauses can be used for decarbonisation and nature-positive outcomes.
Core content undergoes annual reviews or updates following significant legal or market changes.
Quality assurance process
- Initial review: Conducted by solicitors with relevant expertise, supervised by partners, ensuring relevance and accuracy.
- Peer review: Independent scrutiny by solicitors with relevant experience also supervised by a partner. Peer reviewers stress-test the quality and conclusions of the initial review, ensuring robust and defensible legal content.
- TCLP review: Reviewed by our senior in-house subject matter expert lawyer team.
The number and depth of peer review rounds are proportionate to the specific risks posed by the legal content in question.
We continue to develop strategic partnerships with organisations who can support us with ensuring that our content reflects the most up to date climate science.
Keeping you informed
You can subscribe to email updates for our legal content, through the “Get email alerts for updates” buttons.
How to contribute
Help us keep our legal content current by giving feedback using the “Give Feedback” buttons or join TCLP’s pro bono lawyer community.