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Anti-Social Behaviour Orders ("ASBO")
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders ("ASBO") are being used more and more by city councils to target people who are often acquitted by the criminal courts. There are very few legal protections afforded to people when the council put their weight behind an ASBO and as it is a quasi-civil order (civil rules of evidence for the most part, with some criminal rules applying) it is by no means a straightforward area of law. Heavily-reliant on hearsay and anonymous evidence, ASBOs are relatively easy to obtain but the penalties for disobedience are draconian (up to five years imprisonment).
If you find yourself subject to an ASBO, or on the receiving end of an application for an ASBO, it is vital that you get an expert defence team from the outset. Tuckers Solicitors is one of the few practices specialising in this type of work. We have successfully opposed many applications so that a full Order has never been made, or when Orders have been made the terms being sought have been greatly reduced.
It is very easy for civil liberties to be compromised in a system where individuals are often unrepresented and face a large team of city council lawyers and police officers making statements and giving evidence. Tuckers solicitors strongly believes that many ASBOs would not be made in the terms they are (or at all) if they were properly defended from the outset, and our expertise in these types of matters will help to redress the balance.
