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  Clarence Henry Willcock - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Clarence Henry Willcock was the last person in the UK to be prosecuted for refusing to carry an Identity Card.
In December 1950, Willcock, a small businessman, then 54, was stopped while driving in London by a police officer who demanded that he present his Identity Card at a police station within 48 hours.
Willcock appealed, in the case Willcock vs Muckle.
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 Identity crisis - TLS Highlights - Times Online
Bang on cue, on December 7, 1950, along came Clarence Henry Willcock – driving rather too quickly, in fact, for the liking of the local constabulary, along Ballards Lane in North Hornsey.
On the spot, Willcock declared himself a “Liberal” who refused to provide the officers who stopped him with his card, and threw the form they gave him on the ground.
Willcock’s case proceeded to the High Court, where his defence argued that the “emergency” which had entailed the National Registration Act of 1939 had been declared over, and therefore the defendant was under no obligation to obey Constable Harold Muckle.
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 Edinburgh Evening News - Opinion - Why little people must fight big ID
Mr Willcock refused and failed to turn up at his local police station with his identity document two days later.
Clarence Willcock fought his case on the basis that as the war had ended, it was wrong to continue to use the powers that had, after all, been intended as temporary.
The Crown appealed and Mr Willcock’s case went to the High Court where seven judges but commended the magistrates on their decision.
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 Telegraph | News
He was the last person prosecuted in Britain for refusing to produce his wartime ID card and he spearheaded a public campaign that led to their abolition 50 years ago.
For Mr Willcock, being asked to produce an identity card five years after the emergency that made them necessary had ended was a straightforward infringement of his liberty.
This was where the law stood when Mr Willcock, 54, was stopped by Pc Harold Muckle as he drove in Finchley, north London, on Dec 7, 1950.
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 Nick Cohen: Blunkett's identity crisis | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Henry Porter: After a sinister year, it's down to us to protect our freedoms
The law requiring all citizens to carry identity cards had been rushed through Parliament in September 1939 and remained unrepealed after the war.
Willcock had no legal defence, but he had moral and practical arguments and, in a sense, a patriotic case against the cards.
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 Guardian | Blunkett's identity crisis
On 7 December 1950 Clarence Henry Willcock, a 54-year-old manager of a dry cleaning firm, was ordered to pull into the kerb of Ballards Lane, in Finchley, north London, by PC Harold Muckle.
In the subsequent court hearings the prosecuting authorities never suggested Muckle believed Willcock was driving dangerously.
Willcock threw it on the pavement saying, 'I will not accept this form.'
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The unlikely champion in this struggle was a 54 year old Liberal activist by the name of Clarence Henry Willcock (better known as Harry Willcock).
During the 1930s he had served as a Liberal councillor and magistrate in Horsforth, Leeds but by 1945 was living in London.
As well as being the manager of a London dry cleaning firm, Willcock was also a political activist and contested the Barking constituency as a Liberal during the 1945 and 1950 parliamentary elections.
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 Citizenship Foundation:Issues ID cards Facts & Figures
The National Registration Act, which made the carrying of ID cards compulsory, was finally repealed in 1951 following the change of government and an important court case.
In December 1950 Clarence Henry Willcock, the manager of a dry cleaning firm, refused to show his identity card when asked to by the police following a minor motoring offence.
Two days later, having failed to produce it at a police station, he was charged.
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 Big brother is coming...
Identity cards had been introduced as a wartime measure, and it outraged respectable citizens that they were still expected to hold them in peacetime, in the days when George Orwell was writing 1984.
In December 1950, a motorist named Clarence Henry Willcock, the 54-year-old manager of a dry-cleaning firm, was stopped in north London by PC Harold Muckle.
The case went to a Court of Appeal, where the Lord Chief Justice reluctantly upheld Willcock's conviction, but he added damningly: "The police now, as a matter of routine, demand the production of national registration cards whenever they stop or interrogate a motorist for whatever cause.
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Clarence Henry Willcock -v- Muckle [1951] 2 The Times LR 373
PC Muckle served a notice requiring its production which Mr Willcock ignored.
He argued that the emergency which had led to the Act had passed.
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 Identity document - ExampleProblems.com
Compulsory (non-photo) identity cards were first issued in the United Kingdom during World War I, and abandoned in 1919.
They were re-introduced in World War II, but were abandoned seven years after the end of that war, in 1952, due to widespread public resentment culminating in a court case of Willcock v Muckle, where Clarence Henry Willcock refused to supply his card after being stopped by a policeman for a routine driving infraction.
Although he lost the case, the court concurred with his view that identity cards had become inappropriate.
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 UK Compulsory National Identity Cards - Background
There is no reason to believe such tension would be less today.
The last person to be prosecuted for refusing to carry an ID card was Clarence Henry Willcock.
Latest polls suggest that current Government plans would create three million new ID "refuseniks".
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 British national identity card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cards were re-introduced during World War II under the National Registration Act 1939, but were abandoned seven years after the end of that war in 1952, amid widespread public resentment.
Opposition reached its peak with the 1951 court case of Willcock v Muckle, after Clarence Henry Willcock refused to produce his identity card.
The judge in the case said that the cards were an "annoyance" and "tended to turn law-abiding subjects into law breakers".
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 End Evil Politics: ID Cards
Last week, Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, attempted to alleviate Labour MP´s fears by suggesting a "budget" identity card that would cost £30 but would not encompass a passport.
In December 1950 Clarence Henry Willcock was stopped by a Policeman who demanded that he present his ID card to a Police station within 48 hours.
He took his case to the Court of Appeal, and lost.
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In December 1950, a motorist named Clarence Henry Willcock, the
The case went to a Court of Appeal,
where the Lord Chief Justice reluctantly upheld Willcock's
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