Clarence Willcock Day, 26 June

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From No2ID:

"In December 1950, PC Harold Muckle stopped a dry cleaner in Finchley named Clarence Willcock and asked him to produce his World War II identity card. Mr Willcock refused, saying "I am a Liberal. I am against that sort of thing."

On 26th June 1951, in Clarence Willcock's High Court appeal, the Lord Chief Justice said that "...to use Acts of Parliament, passed for particular purposes during war, in times when the war is past, tends to turn law-abiding subjects into lawbreakers, which is a most undesirable state of affairs." As a result of the Willcock case and Lord Goddard's attack on their abuse, identity cards were abolished by Winston Churchill in 1952 as part of his "bonfire of controls".

Hackney & Shoreditch NO2ID will be celebrating Clarence Willcock Day with an evening of hip-hop, rap and poetry at the Hackney Empire next Tuesday, June 26th. Details on the NO2ID website:
http://www.no2id.net/news/events.php#143 "

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in supporting that day, aside from the hip-hop, rap and poetry!