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legal

Covered in the Metro

We are crowdfunding to assist a nurse that was arrested as a result of a stop and search

How are suspicionless stop and search powers being (mis)used? Estelle Marks reflects on the Supreme Court's recent judgment on section 60 by comparing it to section 44 of the Terrorism Act.

For the first time, the legal concept of joint enterprise has been successfully challenged

The Court of Appeal has recently declared schedule 7 incompatible with the right to freedom of expression and information.

Our reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss the appeal challenging the lawfulness of stop and search under section 60, which allows police officers to stop and search the public without the need for reasonable suspicion.

"With no 'reasonable suspicion' required, black people are 23 times more likely to be targeted. The courts must address this" argues Rachel Taylor.

Schedule 7 has been thrown back into the spotlight. This blog post charts the history of the power and how the landscape has changed over the last four years.

Since the summer of 2011 members of the StopWatch policy and legal teams have been working on a legal challenge to the decision to end mandatory monitoring of Stop and Account. Sarah McSherry has provided this briefing on the case thus far.

Conflicting comments on stop and search in the media from David Anderson QC.