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The links on this site are of a legal nature only
and are confined to the UK.
For direct action and protest groups try
www.schnews.org.uk
For news of actions and protests try
www.indymedia.org.uk
Inclusion here obviously does not imply support from LDMG. If you know of a
link which should be here, please email us.
Protesters
www.activistslegalproject.org.uk The Activists' Legal
Project provides information about the law to people who are thinking of taking
direct action, or who have taken direct action.
www.fairfordcoachaction.org.uk/case/index.html
Fairford
coach action - those detained on the way to Fairford Airforce base who have
issued a judicial review of the detention.
Human Rights & Civil
Liberties
www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Liberty, the civil
liberties organisation's website.
www.yourrights.org.uk
Liberty's human rights website.
www.statewatch.org
Statewatch monitors the state and
civil liberties in the UK and Europe.
www.publiclawproject.org
The Public Law Project
undertakes specialist research, training and information, advice and
representation in public law to access justice for poor and disadvantaged
people.
www.amnesty.org.uk
Amnesty International UK
go.to/ta2000
Coalition
Against the Terrorism Acts: Information and campaigning against the Terrorism
Act 2000 and the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
www.defy-id.org.uk
Defy-ID is an adhoc network of groups and individuals prepared for active
resistance to increasing surveillance and the introduction of identity or
'entitlement' cards in the UK.
www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/complete_idcard_guide/
Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card.
www.privacyinternational.org
Privacy International is a
human rights group, a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by
governments and corporations.
Animal Rights
www.freebeagles.org
Legal resource centre for UK
political activists with an animal rights slant.
Anti-nuclear
www.andrewgray.uklinux.net/legalsupport
Legal resource
centre for UK political activists with an Anti-nuclear slant.
Environmental
www.urban75.com/Action/protest.html
Basic Law for Road
Protestors, second edition by Peter Gray.
www.elflaw.org
Environmental Law Foundation: A national charity that secures environmental
justice for communities and individuals through a network of legal and
technical experts.
Prisons, Prisoners Support & Miscarriages of
Justice
www.brightonabc.org.uk
Anarchist Black Cross
Support group for anarchists, black liberation activists, anti-fascists and
others we feel an affinity with who have ended up in prison.
www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk
Earth Liberation Prisoners
Supports people who have been arrested and imprisoned for acts of direct action
in defence of animals and the earth.
www.cares.demon.co.uk
Vegan Prisoners Support Group
assists vegan animal rights prisoners either held in police custody or within
the prison system.
innocent.org.uk
Innocent are committed to fighting
miscarriages of justice in general and campaigning on behalf of specific cases.
www.mojuk.org.uk
Miscarriages of Justice UK Founded by Paddy Hill, one of the
Birmingham 6, they fight for people who are wrongly imprisoned.
www.enrager.net/hosted/caps/
The Campaign Against
Prison Slavery exists to challenge and bring about an end to forced prison
labour, and to expose the companies that exploit it.
www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk
The national federation of
services supporting families of prisoners
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/
Official Prison Service
Website
www.ccrc.gov.uk
Criminal Cases Review Commission
(CCRC). The official body responsible for investigating suspected miscarriages
of criminal justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Police
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimpol/police
Official Home
Office police website - links to individual forces and general information.
Deaths in Custody or by Police
www.inquest.org.uk
INQUEST: Advice, campaigning and information for bereaved people facing
Coroner's Inquests, especially those involving deaths in custody (Police,
prison, detained patients).
www.rsjc.org.uk
Roger Sylvester Justice Campaign Campaigns to establish how Roger, a fit and
healthy 30 year old man came to a horrific and premature death after being
detained by the police.
www.injusticefilm.co.uk
A film about the struggle for
justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
www.ncadc.org.uk
National
Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns: Bringing Together Families and
Individuals Fighting Deportation
Drugs
www.release.org.uk
Release: Drugs and the law and human rights.
www.urban75.com/Drugs/druglaws.html
Advice on the drug
laws.
Squatting
www.squat.freeserve.co.uk/
The Advisory Service for
Squatters.
www.gypsy-traveller.org
Friends, Families &
Travellers: Advice for all travellers.
www.shelter.org.uk
Shelter Housing Advice.
Censorship
www.indexoncensorship.org
Index on Censorship: website
events on free expression and censorship around the world.
www.internetrights.org.uk/index.shtml
Internet rights
and wrongs.
General
www.leeds.ac.uk/law/hamlyn/toc.htm
A general
description of how the UK legal system works from an academic institution.
www.llrx.com/features/uk2.htm
Another guide to how the
UK legal system works from Law Librarian in an academic institution.
www.niknicol.co.uk/English/english.html
Yet another
introduction to the English legal system from a barrister, also available in
Spanish
www.niknicol.co.uk/English/Spanish/spanish.html
www.advicenow.org.uk/go/index
An official advice site
with mainstream but useful advice.
www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts.htm
UK Acts of
Parliament 1988 onwards.
www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/stat.htm
UK Secondary
legislation (Statutory Instruments) from 1987 onwards
www.courtservice.gov.uk/
Official website of the courts
- useful general information.
www.cjsonline.org/home.html
Official website of the
criminal courts - useful general information.
www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en
The Government's
portal with links to all Government sites.
www.justask.org.uk/
The Legal Services Commission - the
replacement for the Legal Aid Board, for funding cases.
www.lawsoc.org.uk/
Law Society: firms of solicitors.
www.solicitors-online.com/
List of Solicitors in
England and Wales.
www.barcouncil.org.uk
Bar Council: Barristers.
2.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/bardirectory/website
List of
Barristers in England and Wales.
www.lawcentres.org.uk/
Law Centres Federation - free
legal advice.
www.adviceguide.org.uk/
The National Association of
Citizens Advice Bureaux - free advice.
www.venables.co.uk/
A useful portal to many legal
websites.
www.bioa.org.uk/
Ombudsmen services available to
individuals who believes that they have received an injustice from a public
body.
Scotland
www.lawscot.org.uk/
Scottish Law Society - includes a
guide to Scots law.
www.lsa.org.uk/
A charity providing fee advice on
Scottish law.
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