Legal Rights for Rebels (Informed Dissent)

Legal Resources

Know your legal rights while protesting or organising actions.
Informed dissent is a website which provides resources to help you make informed decisions when protesting in England and Wales.

See "XR Note:" for wherever any information specifically applies to XR, due to the difference in legal support structures between XR and the wider activist legal support community.

Legal strategy

This is XR's Legal Strategy overview

“When the house is on fire the normal rules don’t apply: it’s not a crime to break a window to save those inside.”

"This is going to be my last Extinction Rebellion trial for a little while. I think they only allow us to do so many of these before our sympathies start to overwhelm us."