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Your rights and the law
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- Being arrested: your rights
- Being charged with a crime
- Being stopped by the police while driving
- Biometric data records
- Buying things from Europe from 1 January 2021
- Check if a website can legally sell medicines online
- Check if you can get legal aid
- Civil Legal Advice (CLA)
- Complain about a financial service or product
- Complain about a legal adviser
- Complain about a limited company
- Consumer advice
- Consumer rights
- Contempt of court
- 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
- Punishments for antisocial behaviour
- Report a problem with a medicine or medical device
- Reporting an accessibility problem on a public sector website
- Request CCTV footage of yourself
- Selling, buying and carrying knives
- Stopping industrial action: citizens' rights
- Using reasonable force against intruders
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Crime, justice and the law
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Courts, sentencing and tribunals
Attending courts, paying fines, appealing a sentence, jury service and tribunals
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Prisons and probation
Sentencing, probation and support for families of prisoners
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Reporting crimes and getting compensation
Including criminal injuries compensation and reporting suspected crimes
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Young people and the law
Includes legal rights, youth offending teams and crime prevention
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Your rights and the law
Includes being arrested, cautions, discrimination and consumer rights
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- Environment and countryside
- Housing and local services
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