The NO2ID Legal Defence Fund

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NO2ID needs your donations to the general campaign. But we have also established a legal defence fund. With the help of friendly lawyers working for little or nothing in fees, this will allow us to take up the cases of people fighting the application of the National Identity Scheme and test the legislation in the courts. Please give generously.

The NO2ID 'refuse' pledge was launched on the MySociety PledgeBank site on 13th June 2005 while the government’s Identity Cards Bill was undergoing its early stages in the House of Commons. It had gathered the 10,000 pledges sought by 18th July 2005

Now the government seems to have started work on the scheme in earnest, we have called-in those funds to have the resources ready to fight. The following message was sent on 14th November 2007 to everyone who signed the original pledge:

Subject: Calling in the pledge - 'refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund' at PledgeBank.com
From: Phil Booth phil@no2id.net
Date: 14/11/2007 21:46
To: xxxxxxxx

Hello, you have received this message because you signed my pledge, "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge" back in 2005. In fact 11360 other people also did. Thank you all.

You may have seen that recently high-profile figures have begun to follow you, by committing themselves to non-compliance too.

The Identity Cards Act 2006 is now law, and - despite growing opposition, significant delays and rising costs - the new Prime Minister shows no sign of calling a halt to the National Identity Scheme. In 2008, the government intends to pilot fingerprinting and to issue the first 'biometric residence visas' to non-EU foreign nationals as a precursor to registering British Citizens.

The legal powers to do these all these things will shortly begin to be applied. Now is the time to call in the legal defence fund part of the pledge.

Please send your donation, by cheque made payable to 'NO2ID' to:

NO2ID (Legal Defence Fund)
Box 412
19-21 Crawford Street
London W1H 1PJ

If you also send in your contact details (we have no way to identify you otherwise - this message is forwarded by PledgeBank) we will keep you informed about the NO2ID campaign and how we can, working together, stop the disastrous National Identity Scheme. We will not pass your details to anyone else.

Phil Booth
National Coordinator, NO2ID

Making a donation

We do, of course, welcome all donations to the legal defence fund. Please send your cheque to NO2ID (Legal Defence Fund), Box 412, 19-21 Crawford Street, LONDON W1H 1PJ or donate using the PayPal button immediately below for donations to the defence fund, not the general donation button in the 'Donate' panel to the left:

N.B. PayPal does take a commission of around 5-6% on donations, so please consider giving a litttle extra if you are paying by this method.

Donations can also be made directly to the legal defence fund bank account using the following details:

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