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This book examines the criminal trials of activist protesters, revealing how self-representation reshapes courtroom dynamics and showing how laws in England and Wales shape the definition of legiti...
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  • 01 July 2027
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This book examines the criminal trials of activist protesters, revealing how self-representation reshapes courtroom dynamics and showing how laws in England and Wales shape the definition of legitimate protest.
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Price: $40.95
Pages: 288
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 01 July 2027
ISBN: 9781529256062
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, LAW / Courts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Criminal justice law
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1. Introduction: Defending Protest

2. The Changing Context of Direct Action Prosecutions

3. Power, Silencing, and Resistance: Conceptualising Conflict in the Courtroom

4. ‘This Case Is About Safety, Safeguarding, and the Avoidance of Harm to People’: The Trials of the Stansted 15

5. ‘Get That Racist Fucker From Here!’ The Trial of the Colston 4

6. ‘Elbit Out of Oldham!’ The Protest Trial After the Campaign Has Won (Palestine Action 1)

7. ‘The Rule of Law’ Versus ‘The Rule of the Sledgehammer’: Palestine Action and the Battle for the Jury (Palestine Action 2)

8. ‘Heads Up, I Plan to Tell the Truth in Front of the Jury’: Resistant Capacity in Climate Trials

9. Conclusions