Jessica Leigh, Anna Birley, Henna Shah and Jamie Klingler of Reclaim These Streets took legal action against the Metropolitan Police Service, claiming that their human rights to freedom of speech and assembly had been breached in connection with their attempt to organise a vigil in Clapham Common, London, for the murdered Sarah Everard.
RTS were told they would be liable to be issued with a fixed penalty notice by the Metropolitan Police Service if the protest went ahead.
[7] The case was heard in January 2022, and a judgment delivered on 11 March 2022 said that the Met's decisions in the run-up to the event were “not in accordance with the law”.
[13] In 2021, RTS co-founder Jamie Klingler campaigned to "close loopholes" that led to an account impersonating her on Instagram not being investigated by police.
[15] In an opinion piece in gal-dem, the journalist Diyora Shadijanova has criticised Reclaim These Streets, the approach it took to the Sarah Everard vigil, and its actions afterwards, as examples of divisive liberal feminism which stands in contradistinction to groups such as Sisters Uncut.