| When | Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:30pm – 2:30pm London |
| Where | Dalston CLR James Library (map) |
| This project has been set up to educate and empower the people of London about the use and misuse of stop and search |
Who we are...
Stop & Search Legal Project (SSLP) is an education project run by a collective of volunteer lawyers. The Project aims to:
Educate and empower the people of London about the law and in particular the law in relation to the police’s ‘stop and search’ powers;
End the use of racial profiling by the police in the use of their ‘stop and search’ powers;
Reduce the harm done to community relations by the excessive use of ‘stop and search’ powers, in particular on young black men;
Increase the familiarity with and knowledge of the legal profession and justice system to as broad a range of people as possible – we don’t believe we should all be subject to a justice system that only a few of us are familiar with.
What we do...
In order to achieve the above aims, we offer:
Free Stop & Search Training Sessions
Demystifying Law Legal Experience Placements
Free Legal Advice Drop In Sessions
The recent reports on the riots highlighted the negative impact racial profiling in stop and search has on young Londoners who grow up with this as part of their daily experience.
We hope you’ll want to get involved through of the programmes above or by helping us out on one of our campaigns
Our workshops
This is what Giovanni Dini from Envision had to say about a workshop SSLP delivered for Envision at Westminster Hall in November 2012:
SSLP held a Stop and Search workshop at an Envision event on November 13, 2012. The workshop was excellent at engaging students they had never met before, to act out different roles and both enjoy themselves and become better informed on an issue which effects their daily lives.
The young people who took part came out of the workshop with a working knowledge of their rights regarding stop and search and how to best handle this scenario.
They were encouraged to defend their rights while remaining polite and constructive, and I felt the SSLP facilitators struck an excellent balance in this regard. In addition, the students fed back to Envision that they enjoyed themselves and found the SSLP lawyers engaging, fun and informative.
Finally, SSLP completely hit the objectives we asked them to in delivering their workshop at our event: These were to engage young people with both a useful skill – in this case knowing how to communicate with police in a stop and search scenario – and an important issue, and to do this through an interactive and well constructed workshop.
At Envision we are pleased to have a working relationship with SSLP and look forward to future workshops by them for our students.
Stop and Search Legal Project (SSLP)
is an educational project run by a collective of volunteer lawyers.
http://www.stopsearchlp.org.uk/
Stop & Search Legal Project (SSLP) is an education project run by a collective of volunteer lawyers. The Project aims to:
Educate and empower the people of London about the law and in particular the law in relation to the police’s ‘stop and search’ powers;
End the use of racial profiling by the police in the use of their ‘stop and search’ powers;
Reduce the harm done to community relations by the excessive use of ‘stop and search’ powers, in particular on young black men;
Increase the familiarity with and knowledge of the legal profession and justice system to as broad a range of people as possible – we don’t believe we should all be subject to a justice system that only a few of us are familiar with.
What we do...
In order to achieve the above aims, we offer:
Free Stop & Search Training Sessions
Demystifying Law Legal Experience Placements
Free Legal Advice Drop In Sessions
The recent reports on the riots highlighted the negative impact racial profiling in stop and search has on young Londoners who grow up with this as part of their daily experience.
We hope you’ll want to get involved through of the programmes above or by helping us out on one of our campaigns
Our workshops
This is what Giovanni Dini from Envision had to say about a workshop SSLP delivered for Envision at Westminster Hall in November 2012:
SSLP held a Stop and Search workshop at an Envision event on November 13, 2012. The workshop was excellent at engaging students they had never met before, to act out different roles and both enjoy themselves and become better informed on an issue which effects their daily lives.
The young people who took part came out of the workshop with a working knowledge of their rights regarding stop and search and how to best handle this scenario.
They were encouraged to defend their rights while remaining polite and constructive, and I felt the SSLP facilitators struck an excellent balance in this regard. In addition, the students fed back to Envision that they enjoyed themselves and found the SSLP lawyers engaging, fun and informative.
Finally, SSLP completely hit the objectives we asked them to in delivering their workshop at our event: These were to engage young people with both a useful skill – in this case knowing how to communicate with police in a stop and search scenario – and an important issue, and to do this through an interactive and well constructed workshop.
At Envision we are pleased to have a working relationship with SSLP and look forward to future workshops by them for our students.
Stop and Search Legal Project (SSLP)
is an educational project run by a collective of volunteer lawyers.
http://www.stopsearchlp.org.uk/
