Litigation One of ZLHR’s two flagship programmes involves the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs) through the provision of legal support services. This safety net offers not only protection in the event of HRDs coming into conflict with the law as a result of their peaceful and legitimate human rights activities, but also encouraging such work to continue and maintaining civic space by allaying fears that HRDs will not be able to afford legal services in the event that they are arrested and prosecuted during the course of their work. The emergency and follow-up legal support provided by ZLHR ensured that the protection, and safety, of HRDs was guaranteed and that they were better able to continue with their work in the knowledge that lawyers would be available to assist them. The second flagship programme – public interest litigation – directly provided social, economic and civil remedies for a total of 786 people around the country in 2014. The number far exceeds this, as the judgments were able to be used in relation those facing similar violations, whilst positive judgments in favour of ZLHR clients had the effect of reforming the conduct or reducing the probability of future similar violations by state and non-state actors alike. 21 99 ZLHR undertook 323 cases in 2014 (emergency and follow-up services, and public interest/constitutional litigation 99 43% of total cases were public interest litigation cases 99 1,386 people benefitted from ZLHR’s legal support services in all 10 provinces 99 600 (44%) were human rights defenders provided with emergency and follow-up legal support; 786 (56%) were people benefitting directly from public interest litigation 99 93% success rate in emergency and follow-up cases in 2014 Type and Number of ZLHR Cases per province ZLHR Annual Report 2014 5.2 ZLHR at National Level