Austin and another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – WLR Daily

Posted October 18th, 2007 in demonstrations, law reports, police, public order by sally

Austin and another v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

“In extreme and exceptional circumstances it was lawful for the police to contain demonstrators and members of the public caught up in that demonstration even though they themselves did not appear to be about to commit a breach of the peace, where it was necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace by others, and no other means would achieve that.”

WLR Daily, 18th October 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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