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  • Being stopped by the police while driving: your rights
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  • Check if a website can legally sell medicines online
  • Check if you can get legal aid
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  • 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
  • Gwirio os ydych yn gymwys i gael cymorth cyfreithiol
  • 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
  • Request CCTV footage of yourself
  • Selling, buying and carrying knives
  • Stopping industrial action: citizens' rights
  • Using reasonable force against intruders

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  • 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

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