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August 13, 2019

Liberty: Appointment of ‘biased’ Prevent reviewer beggars belief

This appointment will be a cause of dismay for communities whose lives are most damaged by Prevent legislation.

CPN appeal – begging ban 

December 15, 2020

Poverty no longer penalised in landmark Liberty legal action

April 11, 2024

Explainer: criminalisation of poverty

August 23, 2018

If the Government is serious about ending homelessness, it needs to scrap Public Space Protection Orders

Criminalising poverty is counterproductive and cruel, it’s astonishing we’re still having to point it out.

Current legal cases

We challenge unjust laws, policies and practices by taking landmark legal cases on the most pressing human rights issues of our time.

May 5, 2022

Police drop London-wide sanctions on homeless man after Liberty Challenge

Liberty, acting for a homeless man in Camden, has successfully challenged sanctions handed to him by the police, which criminalised activities such as ‘loitering’ on any pavement or public street in London without a pre-arranged appointment.

March 21, 2022

Police drop sanction criminalising poverty after Liberty challenge

The Metropolitan Police has dropped sanctions against a woman in North London, with a judge condemning the "lurid and wide ranging" notice the woman was served with.

Public Space Protection Orders

Local councils should be supporting those in need, but many are criminalising homelessness in a misguided attempt to airbrush their streets. The power to create Public Spaces Protection Orders must be scrapped.

Police drop Hackney-wide sanctions on man after Liberty challenge

August 2, 2019

Rogues and Vagabonds – the Vagrancy Act must go

Together we can scrap the Vagrancy Act and end the criminalisation of homelessness

February 25, 2021

Liberty: scrap the Vagrancy Act – and cruel attitudes to poverty