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Thompsons Solicitors for The Legal Line - Case History

1.Civil Liberties

High profile Civil Liberties cases that W.H. Thompson (now Thompsons Solicitors) were involved in include:

The Rate Protest of Poplar 1921: Thirty labour councillors were imprisoned for failing to obey a court ruling when they took a stand against the level of rates levied on the poorer boroughs of London.

W.H. Thompson, together with the pressure from the TUC and the public, forced the release of the councillors, enabling them to participate in a conference which led to an agreement being reached to give relief to the poorer boroughs.

King-Emperor v Spratt & ors (1932): Also commonly known as the Meerut communist conspiracy case, this case came about during a time of numerous strikes in India, most notably in the textile mills. Thirty-three men linked with trade unions were prosecuted, charged with “conspiring together and with others to deprive the King-Emperor of his sovereignty”, as they were thought to be communists.

Although the events occurred in India, there was much British interest in the case as three of the accused were British.

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