Legal Registration Forms

The way we have done legal support for previous Big Blockades has involved getting everyone to fill in a legal registration form before-hand. This has made life much easier for legal support on the day.

If you choose to go this route, we have provided below a template based on the legal registration form we use, which were developed over some years as the easiest format (we think!)

There are two sections you need to consider altering on the template before using it:

Use of Personal Info

The "Use of Personal Info" section was developed in response to the introduction of the Data Protection Act. And because we agree with the principles behind it!

Basically, we wanted to ask two things: Firstly, can we use the info on the form for providing legal support to that person. Secondly, can we add them to our database and send them mailings about future actions.

Depending on the nature of the Blockading Group, what sort of future, if any, you envisage for it beyond this action, etc. you may wish to rephrase the second question or even remove it entirely. We have tried to phrase it fairly generally in the template so as to fit most groups. We strongly recommend leaving the first question in.

As a minimum, you should insert the name of your blockading group in the appropriate space (on the PDF it's a dotted line) in each of these two questions

Media Support Section

We have usually done legal support from the same office as some of the media support team. They have found it useful if there was a media support section on the registration forms so that they could check for any useful info about arrestees which the arrestees were happy to give to the media. If your media support team will not make use of this section you may wish to remove it.

Downloading the Form

The form can be download in any of three formats below. The PDF is the best if you just want to print the form and fill in the blanks by hand. If you wish to edit the form you need one of the other formats. For more help with different formats and how to view/edit them see here.