The BUG supports legal actions against discrimination of a precedent value, including complaints against racial profiling, which the BUG considers to be cases of institutional discrimination. Our current lawsuits against racial profiling can be found here.

The creation of precedents supports legal certainty in the area of ​​non-discrimination and highlights loopholes in the law. To litigate cases which might lead to a decision which will constitute a legal precedent usually takes time and patience, requires extensive legal experience and, if necessary, funding to cover the legal costs.

If lawsuits are settled in favor of the plaintiffs, the judgments can be trailblazing for future legal actions. Ideally, they enable discriminatory patterns and mechanisms to be processed and contained in the long term or even stopped.