Your rights and the law

A to Z

• Antisocial Behaviour Order (ASBO)
• Being arrested: your rights
• Being charged with a crime
• Being stopped by the police while driving: your rights
• Biometric data records
• Buying and carrying knives: the law
• Check if you can get legal aid
• Citizens Advice consumer service
• Civil Legal Advice (CLA)
• Complain about a financial service or product
• Complain about a legal adviser
• Complain about a limited company
• Consumer rights
• Data protection
• Definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010
• Delete a historic conviction
• Disability rights
• Discrimination: your rights
• Find a legal adviser
• Get a copy of your police records
• Get a police check on someone involved with a child
• Help if you're arrested abroad
• How to make a freedom of information (FOI) request
• Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and special constables
• Police and crime commissioners
• Police cautions, warnings and penalty notices
• Police powers of arrest: your rights
• Police powers to stop and search: your rights
• Protests and marches: letting the police know
• Report a problem with a medicine or medical device
• Request CCTV footage of yourself
• Stopping industrial action: citizens' rights
• Using reasonable force against intruders

Detailed guidance

• Gun and weapon controls in Northern Ireland
• Policing and crime prevention

Crime, justice and the law

• Courts, sentencing and tribunals

  Attending courts, paying fines, appealing a sentence, jury service and tribunals

• Prisons and probation

  Sentencing, probation and support for families of prisoners

• Reporting crimes and getting compensation

  Including criminal injuries compensation and reporting suspected crimes

• Young people and the law

  Includes legal rights, youth offending teams and crime prevention

• Your rights and the law

  Includes being arrested, cautions, discrimination and consumer rights

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions