“The Crown Prosecution Service has been accused of ‘double standards’ over abortion laws as campaign groups detailed how it brought criminal charges against a string of pro-life protesters yet refused to prosecute doctors over illegal practices.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A High Court judge granted an injunction today that will allow people to protest peacefully against the controversial badger cull within the trial culling zones, but bar a handful of named hardcore activists from the area.”
The Independent, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If granted by the High Court, it would prevent any protest against the pilot scheme.”
The Independent, 21st August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Taking court action to remove protestors from the Sussex site where energy firm Cuadrilla is carrying out exploratory drilling linked to shale gas deposits in the area may not be the most effective course of action, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th August 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The police watchdog has ruled that a Met officer who sprayed CS gas on peaceful tax protesters, causing several to collapse struggling for breath, should face a “misconduct meeting”.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police have issued an apology to the family of Ian Tomlinson and admitted for the first time that he was unlawfully killed by one of their officers who used ‘excessive force’ during the G20 protests in London in 2009.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An asylum seeker has been detained for three years without trial at a Lincolnshire centre, a report reveals.”
BBC News, 17th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police officers who took the personal details of a woman ‘kettled’ during a trade union rally in 2011 acted unlawfully, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 18th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Twenty-one people who occupied a power station for a week have avoided custodial sentences.”
BBC News, 6th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has already brought to an end the availability of legal aid across a whole range of areas of law that have direct relevance to the poor. Under cover of generalised claims about opportunistic litigation, the goal has clearly been to remove the capacity for challenge to the implementation (whether lawless or not) of the coalition’s various attacks on benefits. The same legislation also withdrew state support from foreign nationals in prison who are threatened with deportation, as many are – regardless of how long they had been here and how British they are in fact. The idea behind this change was to prevent resistance to removal by showing an infringement of the right to respect for private life in the Human Rights Act (a matter on which government now also intends to legislate separately). In both these cases, the government appears close to accepting that their goal is to prevent meritorious cases getting to court, on the ground that the laws that make them meritorious (human rights legislation; equality law; the common law of procedural fairness) are not laws they like. They have been tempted to remove the litigants rather than the laws, hoping there’ll be less fuss.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 10th June 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Lawyers waving placards and chanting blocked the road outside the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday evening in protest over proposals to slice a further £220m out of criminal legal aid and remove defendants’ ability to choose a solicitor.”
The Guardian, 4th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds, some wearing wigs and gowns, demonstrate against justice secretary’s plans, which they say undermine UK justice.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A protester arrested at the Dale Farm traveller eviction will receive undisclosed damages after she complained she was left in a police van for too long.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The last British resident being held in Guantánamo Bay may never be allowed to return to his family in London because of an alleged ‘secret deal’ between US authorities, Saudi Arabia and the British security services.”
The Guardian, 20th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There has been widespread speculation that protests will take place during the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But what laws will be in force?”
BBC News, 16th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Campaigners reacted angrily last night after Scotland Yard suggested protesters should consider avoiding Baroness Thatcher’s cortège – because they face arrest under a controversial public order law.”
The Independent, 15th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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