Animal Rights Legal Resources 

Activist Security handbook
The purpose of this website is to provide a home for our booklet on practical security for activists and campaigners which is free to download. Small parts are specific to the United Kingdom but the majority of it will be suitable to people working all over the world. It has been written by UK activists who have successfully campaigned for over a decade in the face of increasing repression from the state and corporations.

Activist's Legal Project
A not for profit collective which provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social change activists as well as people who are considering taking action for the first time. We provide information sheets on legal issues relevant to direct activists and offer free legal workshops facilitated by activists, with first hand experience of the criminal and civil 'justice' systems.

Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG)
The ALFSG exists to support activists unfortunate enough to end up behind bars from animal rights campaigns. We also promote an understanding of the reasons why decent, caring people feel forced to break the law. We are separate to the ALF, and we operate legally and above ground.

Animal Rights Copwatch
Run by activists from the Western Animal Rights Network and will contain names and numbers of notorious FIT, NETCU and SOCA Cops not to mention beat cops who love to interfere with legal protest!

Animal Rights Prisoner List.
Prisoners convicted and on remand currently in the UK who have indicated they would like to receive correspondence.

Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare
ALAW wants to see a world where there are comprehensive and effective laws to protect animals from the deliberate infliction of pain and distress on them by people, and where the laws are properly enforced...

Free Sean Kirtley
In June 2008, Sean Kirtley was sentenced to four and a half years for holding peaceful demonstrations against Sequani and its suppliers. He was identified as a main target by police as he updated the SSAT website and phone and internet records according to police showed a hierarchy and some form of organisation! (Which is clearly illegal now…)

freeB.E.A.G.L.E.S.
Legal resource centre for UK political campaigners. In this website we provide materials to introduce you to your legal rights, and to what to expect if you are misfortunate to run into trouble with the law. It is important to know your rights and to stand up for them to prevent them being taken from you.

Legal Information
Cruelty Exposed's website has a section containing legal information and a guide to arrest.

SHAC Prisoner Support
Gregg & Natasha Avery and Heather Nicholson were arrested and remanded into custody after 32 separate police raids, involving 700 police officers in the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium on May 1st 2007. They have been charged with "conspiracy to blackmail" Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) along with a further nine defendents. Their trial is due to start around June 2008. HLS has been exposed on 6 separate occasions abusing and torturing animals simply for profit (please visit SHAC's website).

Solicitors: The following can be contacted 24 hours a day:
If you are arrested you have the right to speak privately to a solicitor of your choice free of charge at the police station. Birds (Tim Greene) 020 8874 7433, Walkers (Tim Walker) 020 8800 8855, Kieran Clarke (Kevin Tomlinson) 01246 211006, Kellys Solicitors (Theresa Blades & Lydia Dagostino) 01273 608311, Hickman and Rose (London) 020 7700 2211, Harrison Bundey (Leeds) 0113 284 5000.

Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)
Supporting Vegan Animal Rights Prisoners of Conscience. The Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG) was formed in April 1994 when it was realised that a specialist group was needed to fight for equal rights for vegans detained in prison establishments. VPSG Emergency Arrest Line: 07984 733008