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"Final Statement

After 24 years LDMG has decided to call it a day. It's a sad day, but we hope this may spark a renewed interest in legal support, which is the responsibility of the movement.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved or otherwise supported our work over the years.

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We are very proud of what our volunteers have achieved in providing legal observers, helping defendants, supporting prisoners and providing legal advice.

The documents will remain on this web site for the time being, but if you need legal support please contact Green and Black Cross by email on gbclegal@riseup.net or by phone on the legal hotline 07946 541 511

6th June 2018" http://ldmg.org.uk/

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Statement on the Hyde Park Case

An email was recently sent to a number of people currently active and previously active in LDMG questioning the support given to a defendant in a recent case. Although we do not usually comment publically on cases, given the circulation of this email we consider a public response necessary.

The role and purpose of the Legal Defence and Monitoring Group (LDMG) is to provide legal observers to demonstrations and actions, to support protestors wh...o are arrested and, when charged, throughout the criminal court prosecution. Over the past year LDMG has provided
support to over 100 people.

It would not be appropriate for LDMG to base our decision to support a defendant on our view of what the person did or didn’t do. That would be to act as judge and jury; a role we reject. If we did not support defendants who are ‘guilty’ then we would support far fewer defendants. Indeed, it has long been an unofficial LDMG slogan that “we also support the innocent!”

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http://ldmg.org.uk/…/HydeParkCornerCaseStatementApril2018.p…

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