“Two former English Defence League leaders will not have to answer a charge of obstructing police after prosecutors deemed there was insufficient evidence against them.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Demonstrators have staged events across England in opposition to planned changes to legal aid.”
BBC News, 5th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A crown court judge has thrown out the case against a campaigner accused of vandalising a masterpiece by the English romantic painter John Constable.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has found that the containment of a protester in a designated protesting pen for seventy five minutes was not unlawful at common law, nor under the Human Rights Act 1998.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The High Court has suspended eviction proceedings against anti-fracking protestors at a West Sussex site, saying that the council had not taken their right to freedom of assembly into account.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Thousands of probation workers will join nationwide protests today to claim that public safety will be jeopardised by the Government’s plans to transfer the community supervision of most former offenders to private companies.”
The Independent, 19th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who was ‘kettled’ during a protest in central London has lost his damages claim against the Met.”
BBC News, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Leaders of the far-right group the English Defence League have lost a
High Court fight for the right to demonstrate in an area of east London.”
BBC News, 7th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“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
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