Justice? was a 1990s
direct action group, based in
Brighton,
England
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. It campaigned against the
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c.33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It introduced a number of changes to the law, most notably in the restriction and reduction of existing rights, clamping down on unlicensed r ...
and set up
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Courthouse
In 1994, the Justice? organisation held a number of meetings and debates in their
squatted
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
building (a former courthouse).
Justice? was a deliberately loosely co-ordinated organisation formed around a community of people with differing and sometimes substantially conflicting political positions.
Some of its more overt political actions were authored by the groups' collective persona ''Jo Makepeace''. It campaigned against a
bill
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in the
British Parliament
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which was later to become the
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c.33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It introduced a number of changes to the law, most notably in the restriction and reduction of existing rights, clamping down on unlicensed r ...
.
Squatters Estate Agency
Justice? received mainstream media attention in 1996 (including coverage on the
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The group also organised two direct action conferences and ran a community allotment in
.
'', the newsletter of the organisation, was founded at the Courthouse and read out at places in Brighton including the New Kensington pub.