Resource Type - Medical negligence

Blackwater Law is an independently recognised team of expert solicitors and legal professionals providing medical negligence and personal injury services to clients in both Essex and Suffolk as well as the entire country.

Resource Type - Civil rights and judicial

Deighton Pierce Glynn are specialist civil rights and judicial review solicitors in London and Bristol. They are top rated in Chambers and Legal 500 directories.

Resource Type - Legal practice

Founded in 1974, Garden Court Chambers is a number one ranked barristers’ chambers advising solicitors, members of the public and organisations across the UK and around the world.

Resource Type - Civil liberties and actions against the police

If your rights have been breached by the police or any other state body or organisation, Hudgell Solicitors has an experienced team of civil liberties lawyers who can help you get justice.

Resource Type - Advocacy service

Giving evidence as a witness can be daunting and the court process can be complicated and difficult to understand. The Citizens Advice Witness Service provides free and independent support for both prosecution and defence witnesses in every criminal court in England and Wales.

Resource Type - Scrutiny and moitoring

The Independent Custody Visiting Association ICVA set up to lead local volunteers making unannounced visits to police custody to check on the rights, entitlements, wellbeing and dignity of detainees held in custody, reporting to PCCs and Policing Authorities who hold Chief Constables to account.

Resource Type - Advocacy service

Just for Kids Law is a UK charity that works with and for children and young people to hold those with power to account and fight for wider reform by providing legal representation and advice, direct advocacy and support, and campaigning to ensure children and young people in the UK have their legal rights and entitlements respected and promoted, and their voices heard and valued.

Resource Type - Solicitors pro bono group

LawWorks is a charity in England and Wales to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal aid and cannot afford to pay, and with the not-for-profit organisations that support them.

Resource Type - Legal advice directory

JUSTICE is not an advice agency and we do not take on cases for individuals, but you may get the help you are looking for from the organisations listed in their directory.

Resource Type - Criminal law

MK Law is based in London and recognised by the Legal 500 as a leading criminal law firm. Specialists in serious crime, including terrorism cases, sexual assault, armed robbery and fraud.

Resource Type - Divorce and family law

MK Law is based in London and recognised by the Legal 500 as a leading criminal law firm. Specialists in serious crime, including terrorism cases, sexual assault, armed robbery and fraud.

Resource Type - Legal practice

Looking for legal services that are tailored to you? Look no further! With simple, fixed-price legal services as well as expert support for more complex issues, you will be confident that specialists have got you covered.

Resource Type - Legal directory

QualitySolicitors offers a simple way of getting easy access to expert legal services, because the aim of every QualitySolicitors firm is to provide clients with top-quality legal services and exceptional customer service, every time.

Resource Type - Guidance

You have the right to ask to see recorded information held by public authorities. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) give you the right to see information.

Resource Type - Police monitoring and complaints

The IOPC's mission is improving policing by independent oversight of all police complaints, holding police forces to account and ensuring learning effects change.

Resource Type - Legal directory

Finding a solicitor for your requirements is very straightforward. You can search by choosing a Region and a Service from the boxes below or navigate through the list by using the relevant links.

Resource Type - Legal directory

Netpol operates a Protest Solicitors List enabling campaigners to find good recommendations for a solicitor. It is based on the pooled experience of many activists over many years, and all the solicitors graded by an experienced panel.

Resource Type - Policing

Nowadays with most of us having a camera on our mobile phones, more and more people are able to film the actions of the police during a stop and search and are choosing to do so.

Resource Type - Detention & restraint

There have been thirty-four deaths in immigration removal centres since 1989; three women and the rest men. Harmondsworth detention centre accounts for nine deaths; five people have died at Colnbrook and Morton Hall; three at Yarl’s Wood and the Verne and two each at Campsfield, Dungavel and Haslar. One person has died at each of the detention centres Dover and Oakington (now closed) and Pennine House (a short-term holding facility).

Resource Type - Secure detention

Monthly statistics on the population in custody of children and young people within the secure estate.

Resource Type - Prison reform and campaigns

The Howard League is a national charity working for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison. They are the world’s oldest prison charity, with a long history of bringing people together to advocate for penal reform.

Resource Type - Archive statistics

The IOPC publishes a range of statistical information and research about the police complaints system and the levels of public confidence in it. This work is vital to improving policing.

Resource Type - Archive statistics

INQUEST carries out comprehensive monitoring and collating of statistics relating to deaths in prison, in police custody and following police contact, and deaths of immigration detainees. This is a unique data set derived from official sources and our own casework.

Resource Type - Scrutiny and moitoring

The APDC is an advisory non-departmental public body co-sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office, and the Department of Health and Social Care with the central aim of preventing deaths in custody.

Resource Type - International

On JustAnswer.com you can connect one-on-one with a legal expert who will answer your question. Verified lawyers are online around the clock and ready to answer your question online or by phone.

Resource Type - US only

Lawsuit.org was founded by digital storytelling veterans who are taking their knowledge of simplifying complex topics, datasets, and concepts and applying it to U.S. law.

Resource Type - US only

LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights, and to reunify families and communities. They build public awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts, and the prison system.

Resource Type - US only

Lawsuit.org was founded by digital storytelling veterans who are taking their knowledge of simplifying complex topics, datasets, and concepts and applying it to U.S. law.

Resource Type - Custody deaths

The National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) has monitored the extent and nature of deaths occurring in prison, police custody and youth detention since 1980. The NDICP was established at the Australian Institute of Criminology in 1992 in response to recommendation 41 by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Resource Type - Executions overview

Over 1,607 men and women have been executed in the United States since the 1970s, although executions have declined significantly over the past two decades. Most executions have been concentrated in a few states and a small number of outlier counties.

Resource Type - People killed by police in the US

The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.