Welcome to  Community Activist & Lay Litigants

(CALL)

About Community Activist & Lay Litigants(CALL)

CALL is a community of social justice activists/groups dedicated to challenging the injustices associated with mortgage distress and home repossessions in Ireland. We work with and within civil society to tackle issues of inequality and social exclusion, and to support marginalised groups, individuals and communities.

CALL is dedicated to working with lay litigants, communities and activists to create a more equal, just society that has the well-being of citizens at its heart. We help people in mortgage distress and in fear of home repossession to assert their rights to participate fully in the legal process as subjects of their own lives, to have their voices heard and to have their choices respected. We work within a human rights framework, and we seek to build leadership for positive social change and participative democracy.

CALL strives to create vibrant communities that have the capacity to participate as lay litigants as confidently and powerfully as possible, and to challenge the inequitable structures, policies and practices that prevent them from doing so. We actively seek opportunities to do this work in local, regional, all-island and international contexts.

CALL is a not-for-profit, independent network limited by guarantee. WE depend wholly on public funding to carry out our work. You can donate at: GO FUND ME (to be created)

Who Owns the vulture fund known as Mars Capital Finance Ireland DAC?

Mars Capital – the company that bought the mortgages of Irish families from IBRC at a 58% discount – is owned by a children’s charity. From Leaders Questions: “Last week I showed how a U.S. vulture fund structured its Irish subsidiary, Mars Capital, to avoid paying taxes in Ireland on its Irish profits.

I now believe that these vulture funds are about to pull off the largest avoidance of tax on Irish profits in the history of the State.

Irish charities are being used to play a key part in this tax avoidance. Mars Capital is owned by a registered charity called the Matheson Foundation. The stated mission of the charity is ‘helping Irish children to fulfil their potential.’ It contributes to causes including ISPCC, Barnardos and the Temple Street Children’s Hospital.

The Charity does not mention its ownership of Mars Capital. One reporter I spoke with believes the charity may own more than two hundred companies. So at a time when public faith in the charity sector has been rocked yet again, a children’s charity is being used by a vulture fund to avoid paying tax.”