Criminal Law Amendment Act 1871

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The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1871 (34 & 35 Victoria, c. 32) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by W. E. Gladstone's Liberal Government. It was passed on the same day as the Trade Union Act 1871.[1]

The Act decreed that attempts by individuals to coerce other individuals for trade purposes, through personal violence that would justify a magistrate in binding an individual to keep the peace; or by persistently following an individual from location to location; hiding their tools, clothes and other property; keeping watch on their house; or following them in a disorderly manner along a street or road with two or more individuals, was punishable with three months' imprisonment, including hard labour. The last restriction was designed to outlaw picketing.^[1]

It was repealed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative Government in 1875.