Publications:

For Asylum Seekers and their Supporters: A Self-Help Guide against detention & deportation

A “Bleak House” for Our Times  An investigation into Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre

Submission to the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry

A Chronology of Injustice: The case for Winston Silcott's conviction to be overturned

 Child Support Agency Dossier

Crown Prosecution Service Dossier

Parliamentary briefing Defending the Right to Protest in Parliament Square

Reports of self-help workshops organised by Legal Action for Women

1. The freedom of movement in towns and cities

2. Defending children's right to non-segregated, multi-dimensional education

3. Defending the right to dissent & protest

4. Single mothers benefits, disability benefits and asylum benefits

5. Anti-trafficking legislation: protection or deportation?

6. Defending breastfeeding - our human right to the best

7. Community care: a social entitlement or an individual expense

8. Claiming compensation for rape and other violence

9. Rights of women asylum seekers 1: Preventing dispersal

10. Rights of women asylum seekers 2: Preventing detention and removal

 

Women up against the law
Legal Action for Women

 To Contact Us:

Legal Action for Women law@crossroadswomen.net
Crossroads Women's Centre
230A Kentish Town Road
London NW5 2AB
Tel: 020-7482 2496
Fax: 020-7209 4761

About Legal Action for Women:
A grassroots anti-sexist, anti-racist legal service for all women based at the Crossroads Women's Centres in London, England and San Francisco, USA. Since LAW-London began in 1982, in response to prostitute women's need for legal advice and back-up, it has focused on providing free services to low-income women who are more likely to be denied justice. LAW-SF has done similar work. Most recently it co-ordinated the monitoring of a trial for rape and attempted murder which was not taken seriously because some of the victims were sex workers – women attended court hearings over two years and held pickets outside the court. The man was sentenced to life.  

LAW combines access to a network of sympathetic lawyers, with experienced lay workers from similar backgrounds to the women using its services. Its insistence that no case is "hopeless", that something can always be done, has won LAW recognition from legal professionals, civil rights and welfare organizations, and community groups. LAW has helped prevent many injustices and set important precedents, including with the first private prosecution for rape in England, which resulted in an 11-year conviction. 

We work with the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and other relatives and friends who are fighting for justice for their loved ones.

Financial Appeal:
Legal Action for Women’s Emergency Fund

URGENT appeal for destitute women seeking asylum

 

Sign on in Support of Death Row Journalist
Mumia Abu-Jamal

 

Mumia Case on Hold as Appellate Judges Deliberate
article by David Lindorff

 

Voice Newspaper re Mumia Abu-Jamal

 

Report of oral court hearing
in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Hosted by Ian Macdonald QC
 Tuesday 10th July 2007 6.30pm

 

3rd World Congress Against the Death Penalty Paris Feb 07

 

Report of a 19 Oct London meeting addressed by Robert R Bryan, lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal 
 on the appeal for a new trial in the Federal Court
Hosted by Ian Macdonald QC, Garden Court Chambers

Organised by Legal Action for Women.
Press release

Robert R Bryan, distinguished lawyer and specialist in death penalty litigation has re-launched the legal defence of Mumia Abu-Jamal.  In December last year the US Court of Appeals accepted his submissions for a review of number of key issues in Mr Abu-Jamal’s case.  This is the first time that any court has made a ruling which could lead to a new trial.  In July this year, with his associate Judith L Ritter, Mr Bryan submitted an impressive brief to the Federal Appeal Court (available at http://www.freemumia.org/articlesnewspg/7-20-06filing.pdf).  This is a crucial moment in Mr Abu-Jamal’s case, which is now moving swiftly through the courts to a definitive decision.

From the Global Women's Strike website:
May 17 Key hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal - Come out in support!
Journalists in support of a new trial for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: Open Letter to the Court

Leading UK Lawyers Petition US Appeal Court
Re Racism in Case of Death Row Journalist
Mumia Abu Jamal
 Also available in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish

Press Release:
LEADING UK LAWYERS PETITION US APPEAL COURT
RE RACISM IN CASE OF DEATH ROW JOURNALIST

Friday 23 June 06, 11am
A REFUGEE WEEK EVENT - to launch :
Three tools for rape survivors, legal representatives & supporters
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street,
Camden Town, London NW1 - All welcome 

A “Bleak House” for Our Times  An investigation into Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre   A Dickensian classic set in Bedfordshire  Review  To Order  Press conference/launch
Scottish Launch of Self Help Guide for asylum seekers

Picket of Communications House Report

Remembrance at Yarl's Wood Removal Centre Pictures

Defending prisoners:

ASBOS:

 

In the news:

We All Have the Right to Be Here: 
historic national gathering
Strengthening the movement against repressive laws on asylum and immigration  Report   Leaflet

Advice for asylum seekers and news:

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