Defend Our Juries

In March 2023, retired social worker Trudi Warner was arrested when she held up a handwritten sign outside a London Crown Court ahead of a trial of climate activists. Her action was in response to Crown Court judges barring reference to climate change in trials and instructing juries to dismiss such evidence. The Solicitor General pursued charges of Contempt of Court against Warner, for the crime of standing on a public pavement with a placard. Since then, activists in ever-greater numbers have continued to peacefully and silently hold signs outside of Crown Courts, reinforcing the right of juries to “give a verdict according to their convictions.”