John Catt
John Catt’s legal challenge against the “domestic extremism” database
Documents
European Court of Human Rights, judgment in the case of Catt v. the United Kingdom, 24 January 2019
Supreme Court judgment in R (on the application of Catt) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 4 March 2015
A witness statement by Baroness Jenny Jones in support of
High Court judgment in n R (on the application of Catt) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 14 March 2013
Netpol commentary
It’s Time to Close Down the Police’s “Domestic Extremism” Databases, 5 February 2019
Analysis of the UK Supreme Court ruling on surveillance of political activism, 5 March 2015
Supreme Court grants “judicial approval for the mass surveillance of UK protest movements”, 3 March 2015
Day 3 of the John Catt ‘domestic extremism’ Supreme Court hearing, 4 December 2014
Day 2 of the John Catt ‘domestic extremism’ Supreme Court hearing, 3 December 2014
Day 1 of the John Catt ‘domestic extremism’ Supreme Court hearing, 2 December 2014
Netpol urges
Leigh Day Solicitors, Campaigners intervene in ‘unlawful’ police database Supreme Court case, 1 December 2014
News
Clive Coleman, Brighton activist John Catt, 94, wins ‘extremism’ database case, BBC News, 24 January 2019
Rob Evans, Protester wins
Rob Evan, Protester, 91, goes to European court over secret police files, The Guardian, 25 July 2016
Brighton activist John Catt loses extremism database case, BBC News, 4 March 2015
Rob Evans, Supreme court verdict now awaited in crucial police surveillance case, The Guardian, 8 December 2014
John Catt Brighton ‘extremism’ case at Supreme Court, BBC News, 2 December 2014
Campaigner John Catt wins appeal over extremism database, BBC News, 14 March 2013
John Catt takes protester records case to Court of Appeal, BBC News, 29 January 2013
John Catt loses court case over protest data, BBC News, 30 May 2012
John Catt, I’ve been protesting for 70 years – I’m not going to stop now, The Guardian, 11 February 2012
Rob Evans, Why have the police labelled an 87-year-old pensioner a “domestic extremist”?, The Guardian, 10 February 2012
Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Pensioner sues police who branded him a ‘domestic extremist’, The Guardian, 9 February 2012
Brighton activist asks High Court to delete records, BBC
Nick Tarver, Defiant early days of an 86-year-old Brighton activist, BBC News, 10 May 2011
Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Protester to sue police over secret surveillance, The Guardian, 3 May 2011
Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Peace campaigner, 85, classified by police as ‘domestic extremist‘, The Guardian, 25 June 2010
The Green Party
Surveillance on Jenny Jones, Caroline Lucas, Sian Berry and Ian Driver
Documents
Ian’s Driver’s 2013 subject access request to the Metropolitan Police
News
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas ‘monitored by police’, BBC News, 29 April 2016
Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd, Police anti-extremism unit monitoring senior Green party figures, The Guardian, 28 April 2016
Rob Evans, Jenny Jones calls for IPCC to investigate alleged destruction of her police files, The Guardian 15 November 2016
Rob Evans, Officer claims Met police improperly destroyed files on Green party peer, The Guardian, 8 January 2016
Jenny Jones, The day I found out I’m a ‘Domestic Extremist’, The Telegraph, 25 January 2015
Joseph Cox, London’s Police Database of Extremists Also Includes Politicians and Activists, Motherboard, 16 June 2014
Rob Evans, Police say they have not counted how many politicians they have been monitoring
Rob Evans & Owen Bowcott, Green party peer put on
Martin Hoscik, Is the Met guilty of an indiscriminate approach to gathering intelligence?, MayorWatch, 11 November 2013
(includes details of the information received by Jenny Jones following her subject access request to the Metropolitan Police)
Ian Driver, ‘Spied on for Opposing Live Animal Exports’, Ian Driver Thanet’s Green Councillor, 9 November 2013
Jenny Jones AM questions Met & Deputy Mayor on National Domestic Extremism Database [Video], 8 November 2013
National Union of Journalists
NUJ legal challenge against the “domestic extremism” database
News
British journalists spied on by state, put on
Jess Hurd, Are you a ‘domestic extremist’?, TUC Touchstone blog, 25 November 2014
Christopher Werth, British journalists slam police surveillance in lawsuit, Los Angeles Times, 21 November 2014
Jason Parkinson, When police spy on journalists like me, freedom is at risk, The Guardian, 21 November 2014
Jules Mattsson, Met’s journalist files include details of sexual orientation, childhood and family medical history,
Press Gazette, 21 November 2014
Dominic Casciani, Journalists demand police destroy ‘surveillance’ files, BBC News, 20 November 2014
National Union of Journalists, NUJ members under police surveillance mount collective legal challenge, 20 November 2014
Mark Thomas, Help the NUJ expose the monitoring of journalists, National Union of Journalists, 20 November 2014
Rob Evans, Police face legal action for snooping on journalists, The Guardian, 20 November 2014
Jules Mattsson, Journalists named on secret files, police admit, The Times, 11 November 2014
Jason Parkinson, Met Commander Broadhurst Denies Journalist Surveillance [Video], 1 November 2014
Darren Boyle, Working as a journalist landed comedian Mark Thomas on