From the legislative war on sex workers to new rules governing criminal record disclosure, Carl Spender is here with a round-up of the last month&#…
Legal News Digest: Nov-Dec 2020
Tag: know your rights
As evictions hiatus ends, Solfed launches housing rights primers
On Monday, with remarkably little fanfare, the hiatus in eviction proceedings was ended, allowing courts to issue new notices and bailiffs to start…
Notes for New Squatters
The government’s U-turn on evictions is merely a temporary reprieve — and today Freedom is publishing this newly updated Advisory Service f…
Legal: People are being criminalised for coronavirus offences that don’t exist.
Delirious with fevers and newly extended powers, British cops are well and truly out of control.
Travelling to the COP25 summit in Madrid? Make sure you know your rights
If you are planning to travel from Britain to protests at the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, which begins next week, it …
Police and Mental Health: Tips for Dealing with Custody and Arrest
CN: Mental health and self harm discussed in article There are downsides and upsides to informing the police of a mental health condition.
Confronting Street Racism: Know the Law
This has been republished from Cava Sunday’s tumblr.
Avoiding Police Facilitation – promoting state unsanctioned protests
Police forces are big fans of peaceful protests.
Recent Articles
Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
