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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: TRAINING, WORKSHOPS AND PROJECTS

If you are part of an organisation/community group, and you would like Liberty to deliver a bespoke know your rights training, workshop, project or resource, we want to hear from you. We may be able to assist and partner with you subject to our capacity.

Please contact us on legalinformation@libertyhumanrights.org.uk to express an interest, and we will aim to get back to you as soon as possible to confirm whether we are able to assist.

We deliver know your rights workshops, projects and resources on:

• Interactions with the police, including:
  • Stop and search
  • Powers of arrest
  • Use of force
  • Race and disability discrimination
  • Intervening during police harassment
  • Holding the police to account
  • Information-sharing
  • Protest, including:
• Your right to protest, including:
  • How to organise a protest
  • Student protests
  • Protest and migrant rights
  • Protest and Disabled people’s rights
• Prevent
• The criminalisation of homelessness, including:
  • Community Protection Notices
  • Public Spaces Protection Orders
• Your rights under the Human Rights Act 1998

Examples of our work include:

• Various know your rights workshops on protest rights for different community groups including migrants, Disabled people and students
• Various know your rights workshops with grassroots community groups on police interactions, including on stop and search
• Easy Read guidance on police interactions
• Guidance on Prevent in No More Exclusions’ guide to Palestine Liberation in Schools
• Protest bust cards in over 15 different languages

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Legal queries

Unfortunately we do not have capacity to respond to individual queries.

We have pages on our website dealing with many of the questions we are frequently asked, including;

• How to find immigration law advice
• How to find family law advice
• How to find housing law advice
• How to make a police complaint
• What to do if you think you are under surveillance

Please note we can’t offer casework, legal representation or provide specific legal advice on an ongoing legal case. If you are looking for legal representation, please see our I need a lawyer page or search online using the following directories:

• http://find-legal-advice.justice.gov.uk/ 
• http://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/
• https://chambers.com/guide/uk?publicationTypeId=1
• https://netpol.org/solicitors/

You can find legal background and some practical next steps about the following issues on our Advice Hub:

• Policing
• Protest
• Discrimination
• Disabled people’s rights 
• LGBTQ+ rights
• Surveillance
• Counter-terrorism 

We don’t provide information about issues like:

Issues that do not concern public bodies

• your neighbours
• your landlord (unless it’s the council)
• your family
• your criminal defence case

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