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SUMMARY:Janet Allan will talk on The Miners Strike 1984/85 – my role as newly qualified solicitor with Thompsons (by Zoom\, link to be circulated)
DESCRIPTION:Please let us know if you would like to attend this meeting by clicking this link and giving us your email address and name. We will then contact you before the meeting with the Zoom link. \nIn an effort to defeat the striking miners the government\, judiciary and police used the law as a method of reducing the civil liberties of striking miners and their supporters by all possible means. \nRoad blocks were employed to intercept suspected pickets. Those arrested on the picket line faced draconian bail conditions often including curfews to prevent further demonstrations. Medieval charges of riot and unlawful assembly were used against those attending the mass pickets at both Orgreave and Mansfield. \nMike Mansfield the leading barrister at the Orgreave trials referred to the cases as “the worst example of mass frame up in this country in this century”. \nI joined Thompsons in September 1983 and Bill Etherington\, then General Secretary of the Durham Colliery Mechanics Association instructed Thompsons to be the union lawyers. The Durham NUM followed later. I represented two Durham Mechanics arrested at Orgreave and one at Mansfield. \nMy day to day experience of representing striking miners during the period from March 1984 to March 1985 will form the basis of this presentation.
URL:https://nelh.net/event/janet-allen-will-talk-on-the-miners-strike-1984-85-my-role-as-newly-qualified-solicitor-with-thompsons-on-tuesday-25-august-at-7-00pm-by-zoom-link-to-be-circulated/
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