“The European court of human rights had a chance to strengthen the right to protest. Instead, it set a dangerous precedent.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“‘Kettling’ tactics used by the Metropolitan police to contain crowds in 2001 were lawful, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.”
BBC News, 15th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The police power to contain large numbers of people at protests, the tactic known as kettling, could be called into question on Thursday by a ruling at the European court of human rights.”
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The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has today issued Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors with new guidance on dealing with people who may have committed an offence during a protest or demonstration.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 6th March 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“People who mask their faces to conceal their identity or carry anything that could be used as a weapon during protests should be pursued more vigorously by the law in the event of disorder, according to fresh guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Protesters camping at St Paul’s Cathedral in London as part of the Occupy movement have been evicted by police after losing a Court of Appeal challenge.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Campaigners fighting town and city expansion in Norfolk have won a High Court battle with council planners. The group Snub (Stop Norwich Urbanisation), took action against Broadland District, South Norfolk District and Norwich City councils. The judge ruled that plans for 33,000 properties and the new Norwich northern distributor road had not been properly assessed.”
BBC News, 24th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
City of London v Samede and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 160; [2012] WLR (D) 41
“While it could be appropriate for the court to take into account the general character of the views whose expression the Convention on Human Rights was being invoked to protect, namely the article 10 (freedom of expression) and article 11 (freedom of assembly) rights of demonstrators on the public highway, it was very difficult to see how those rights could ever prevail against the will of the landowner when the demonstrators were continuously and exclusively occupying public land, breaching not just the owner’s property rights and certain statutory provisions, but significantly interfering with the public and Convention rights of others, and causing other problems connected with health, nuisance and the like, especially in circumstances where the occupation had already continued for months and was likely to continue indefinitely.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Anti-capitalist protesters camping outside St Paul’s Cathedral were today refused permission by the Court of Appeal to challenge orders evicting them.”
The Independent, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An investigation into a Dorset hunt has been abandoned amid a row between animal welfare monitors and the Crown Prosecution Service over the text of a letter explaining why no arrests should be made.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today the Court of Appeal will rule on whether to uphold an eviction order granted to the City of London Corporation to drive the tent village from the steps of the cathedral and bring the four-month protest to an end.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An 86-year-old man is launching a landmark lawsuit against police chiefs who labelled him a ‘domestic extremist’ and secretly recorded his political activities in minute detail.”
The Guardian, 9th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Justice & Security Green Paper – Abu Qatada – The Occupy judgment – Contempt of court and a quick look at the legal issues involved in the Scotland Independence referendum proposed by Alex Salmond.”
Charon QC, 19th January 2012
Source: charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The Metropolitan Police has succeeded in its appeal against a Divisional Court ruling (see previous post) that the use of crowd control measures – in this case, containment or ‘kettling’ – against Climate Camp protesters did not constitute ‘lawful police operations’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Metropolitan Police has won its appeal against a High Court ruling over ‘kettling’ tactics used during the G20 demonstrations in April 2009.”
BBC News, 19th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The City of London Corporation (COLC) has won its High Court bid to evict protestors from their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral after Mr Justice Lindblom granted orders for possession and injunctions against protestors in December.”
The Lawyer, 18th January 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Protesters occupying an empty office complex in the City of London owned by the bank UBS can stay until at least January, after a legal victory.”
BBC News, 19th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The City of London Corporation has lost control of St Paul’s Cathedral, the high court will hear on Monday, with members of an activist camp ‘setting rules and policing behaviour’ in the churchyard. A trial, lasting up to four days, will determine whether Occupy London protesters can stay on the land outside the building or not.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the biggest universities in the UK has obtained a high court injunction that criminalises all occupation-style protests on its 250-acre campus for the next 12 months, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Protesters occupying an empty office complex owned by a bank are set to take their fight to remain to the Court of Appeal. A High Court judge today refused to overturn a ‘possession order’ granted to investment bank UBS, which owns the complex in the City of London.”
The Independent, 7th December 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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