Legal action against police and public organisations

Legal help to challenge something done by a public organisation. You might have been told you need to bring a ‘judicial review’.

This includes organisations like:

• schools or other education settings
• council, social services, local authority
• NHS, hospitals
• housing providers
• a government department or agency
• foster carers, care homes, care facilities

It also includes problems with the police, prisons or detention centres, for example if you’ve been:

• wrongfully arrested, stopped, held or detained anywhere
• physically, sexually or emotionally abused

If you cannot find your problem

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