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Your Committee awaits you!

LONDON FREELANCE Branch still has vacancies - not least for a second Welfare Officer, who we would like to be female, given the personal nature of some of the work.

Student members, please do consider joining us too.

To discuss getting involved, contact a Committee member - see www.londonfreelance.org/lfb/contact.html and for a flavour of what's involved see here.

The entire Committee will up for election at the Annual General Meeting on 8 January 2024.

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Members of the committee gathered outside the Calthorpe Arms - scene of a key event in legal history, when in 1833 a coroner's jury, meeting upstairs, returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide" in the death of PC Culley during a protest by the National Union of the Working Class - on the grounds that the police had not read the riot act, there had been no clear call to disperse, and the government did not take proper precautions to prevent the meeting assembling in the first place. The coroner detained the jury, demanding a different verdict; they refused to change.