Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden is a British lawyer

Lawyer

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 who specialises in court-martial

Court-martial

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 law, and using the Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Protection from Harassment Act 1997

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 to contain and curtail any unlawful aspects of protest involving, amongst other matters, anti-corporate groups. He has acted in numerous cases involving animal rights

Animal rights

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 groups, environmentalist

Environmentalist

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s, and anti-militarist groups.

Lawson-Cruttenden was educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is a former British Army

British Army

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 Lieutenant in the Blues and Royals

Blues and Royals

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 and is an honorary legal advisor to the Regiment. He describes himself as an "intellectual prostitute" because he will take any case in his area of specialism, reflecting the "cab rank rule

Cab rank rule

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" applied and adhered to by British advocate

Advocate

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s.

He is the Chairman of the Old Harrovian Law Society and Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates.

Books

• Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden and Neil Addison (1997), Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Blackstone Press, ISBN 978-1854316950
• Neil Addison and Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden (1997), Harassment Law & Practice

External links

• http://www.lawson-cruttenden.co.uk