Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It

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'A lawyer in your pocket' - THE SECRET BARRISTER

'Pioneering legal advice for short attention spans' - GUARDIAN

'A very valuable guide' - TRISHA GODDARD

The indispensable guide to your right to protest

In this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know when taking a stand. Whether you are marching on the streets or making your voice heard from your own front room, organising in your workplace or writing a letter to your MP, this essential guide equips you with your fundamental rights and the laws that protect you - as well as the ones you might inadvertently break.

From attending a demonstration to when the police can - and can't - stop you, this book has your back. In it, you'll find up-to-date information on a whole range of topics, including:

- Public assembly and who to notify when you're on the move - Striking in the workplace and action your employer can take against you - Direct action and when it crosses over into trespass - Stop and search and how to access help if you are arrested - Online activism and what to do if you accidentally libel someone