Our experience

Please see below for our press releases and for details on our coverage in the press:

Crime

• Mike Schwarz comments on verdicts in climate change criminal trials
  Publication date: 16 December 2010
• Met Police Chief Says “Protect police from lawsuits”
  Publication date: 11 October 2010
• Campaigners acquitted of conspiracy to cause criminal damage
  Publication date: 2 July 2010
• Protester found not guilty
  Publication date: 10 June 2010

Police misconduct

• Success for high profile journalist stopped from reporting by police who say “we can do anything under the terrorism act”
  Publication date: 9 December 2010
• Journalist receives £30,000 compensation from Met police after being struck in face with shield during G20 protests
  Publication date: 6 December 2010
• Metropolitan police commissioner pays £35,000 compensation and legal costs to innocent businessman struck in the face by one of his officers with a truncheon
  Publication date: 23 November 2010
• Thames valley Police accept it was unlawful for their officer to seize a journalist's equipment and download his photographs
  Publication date: 2 November 2010
• British Transport Police accept it was unlawful for their officer to order a journalist to delete his photographs
  Publication date: 5 July 2011
• Police pay damages to journalists for breaching their right to report
  Publication date: 25 June 2010

Eviction cases

• Peace protesters win round one in eviction fight
  Publication date: 8 June 2010

Public law

• Gwendolen Morgan questions suspension of protest website 
  Publication date: 17 November 2010
• Kent police ‘learns the lesson’ of £5.3 million policing operation that resulted in mass human rights breaches
  Publication date: 9 June 2010
• Stephen Grosz featured on BBC News commenting on the right to demonstrate within a kilometre of Parliament Square
  Publication date: 21 May 2010
• Met Police admits G20 protest arrests unlawful
  Publication date: 22 March 2010
• Protesters challenge G20 armed police raid on Earl Street Convergence Centre
  Publication date: 5 July 2009
• Kent police ‘learns the lesson’ of £5.3 million policing operation that resulted in mass human rights breaches 
  Publication date: 9 June 2010

• Bindmans’ protestor clients win first round in challenge to mass stop and searches
  Publication date: 20 May 2009

  
  
  

G20 Protests

• Divisional Court to examine the legality of G20 ‘kettling’ immediately before Saturday’s mass demonstrations against cuts
  Publication date: 21 March 2011
• Metropolitan Police face judicial review over policing of G20 protests
  Publication date: 25 May 2009
• Protesters challenge G20 armed police raid on Earl Street Convergence Centre
  Publication Date: 5 July 2009
• Test case about to be issued on G20 policing
  Publication Date: 29 June 2009
• Metropolitan Police face judicial review over policing of G20 protests
  Publication Date: 25 May 2009
• G20 protestors issue legal threat (BBC News)
  Publication Date: 18 May 2009
• G20 Police Face Legal Review On Tactics  (Sky News)
  Publication Date: 18 May 2009
• Police challenged on tactics (The Scotsman)
  Publication Date: 18 May 2009
• G20 police are not above the law (The Guardian)
  Publication Date: 18 May 2009
• G20 police blog boasts about a 'good kicking' (The Observer)
  Publication Date: 18 May 2009

 Discrimination cases

• Campaigner launches groundbreaking - Animal rights discrimination case
  Publication date: 8 November 2010
• Settlement reached for Bindmans client Tim Nicholson in climate change discrimination case
  Publication date: 19 April 2010
• Bindmans represents Tim Nicholson in climate change discrimination case
  Publication date: 13 October 2009