Your Right to Protest (Trade Paperback)

Your Right to Protest (Paperback)

Understand It, Use It

Christian Weaver

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The indispensable pocket guide to your right to protest, from an expert barrister

'A lawyer in your pocket' - THE SECRET BARRISTER

'Pioneering legal advice for short attention spans' - GUARDIAN

'A very valuable guide' - TRISHA GODDARD

FROM THE BIG ISSUE'S 2025 CHANGE MAKER: 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

For activists new and old alike, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in.

Publication date: 29/08/2024

£8.99

ISBN: 9781805223443

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, Humour & Gift, Politics & Economics, Reference, Self Help & Advice

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Understand It, Use It

Christian Weaver

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The indispensable pocket guide to your right to protest, from an expert barrister

'A lawyer in your pocket' - THE SECRET BARRISTER

'Pioneering legal advice for short attention spans' - GUARDIAN

'A very valuable guide' - TRISHA GODDARD

FROM THE BIG ISSUE'S 2025 CHANGE MAKER: 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

For activists new and old alike, Your Right to Protest is the indispensable guide to using your voice for what you believe in.

Publication date: 29/08/2024

£6.99

ISBN: 9781805223450

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B0CTKZJJBX

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, Humour & Gift, Politics & Economics, Reference, Self Help & Advice

Reviews for Your Right to Protest

'A very valuable read ... Your Right to Protest has got lots of valuable information and I learned so much from it!'

Trisha Goddard, Talk TV 

'Weaver is an activist lawyer looking to change the world from inside and outside of the courtroom. Weaver has also penned two books explaining the law to the layman; Your Right to Protest is designed to stick in your back pocket if you're on your way to take a stand'

 Big Issue

'The right to peaceful protest has been curtailed in recent years, and issues like racism appear to be endemic, institutional and multi-generational ... but there are things you can do and battles that you can fight and win ... Your Right to Protest is a guide to making your voice heard '

Adrian Goldberg Byline Times

'Your right to protest is enshrined - and Christian Weaver wants to protect that. With the focus on a wide range of protests - from public demonstrations to less obvious examples such as letters to MPs and Freedom of Information requests, Weaver aims to empower people by democratising the law and giving people an understanding of the rights they may not realise they have'

Stephen Topping Manchester Evening News

'An invaluable addition, this is a timely and necessary read'

Hamza Yusuf 

'The toolbox to using your voice - we will definitely keep in our pocket'

 The Mandem Read

'Essential reading'

Ruth Hannan, founder, Care Full Economy 

'Christian Weaver continues to educate people on their basic legal rights [and] Your Right to Protest aims to explain the rights of the individual to protest, in a climate where those rights have never been so important'

 Garden Court North Chambers

'A brilliant book'

 Rama Publishing

'A much needed book. As communities continue to rise up in face of ever entrenched injustice, knowing our rights become ever more important'

Ife Shakur, host The Black British English Podcast

'A must read'

Chian Reynolds 

'Praise for The Law in 60 Seconds'

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'An indispensable guide to the law and your rights, giving you a lawyer in your pocket ... Exceptional'

The Secret Barrister 

'Pioneering legal advice for an age of limited attention spans'

 Guardian

'A brilliant and generous and very necessary book'

Sarah Langford, author of 'In Your Defense' 

'A triumph of a book. It should form the basis for a national curriculum in law ... this GEM of a book has it all'

Joanna Hardy-Susskind 

'Packed with concise, useful facts and tells you how to defend yourself in a pub fight. So just what we need!'

 The Law Society Gazette

Christian Weaver

Christian Weaver

Christian Weaver is an award-winning human rights barrister, social justice campaigner and author of The Law in 60 Seconds: A Pocket Guide to Your Rights. He has represented families in some of the country's most high-profile inquests, including that of Awaab Ishak, a toddler who tragically died in social housing due to prolonged exposure to mould. The case led to the creation of 'Awaab's Law' which directly benefits over 4 million social housing tenants.

In 2023 Christian was named Legal Aid Newcomer of the Year; he was listed in The Lawyer Hot 100 2024 and has been featured on nearly all UK major news platforms including BBC News, the Guardian and Radio 4. Concerned about the increasing number of people he knew being stopped and searched, in 2018 he created the YouTube series 'The Law in 60 Seconds' to inform people of their rights and make the law accessible; those videos have now been viewed thousands of times. Christian has worked at INQUEST and Liberty; currently he is instructed as a barrister on the Covid-19 Public Inquiry. Alongside this, he is touring the UK educating the public on their legal rights. He is from Nottingham and based in Manchester.