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Peace campaigner evicted from Parliament Square using new law – Marina Wheeler
R (on the application of Maria Gallastegui) v Westminster City Council [2012] EWHC 1123 (Admin) – Read judgment On 27 April 2012, Maria Gallastegui, a peace campaigner and resident of the East...
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Retention of data on octogenarian protester “amply justified”
Catt v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis [2012] EWHC 1471 (Admin) – read judgment Retention of data on a national database of material relating to a protester’s attendance at demonstrations...
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Permanent injunction against anti-vivisection protestors
Harlan Laboratories UK L & Another v Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty and others [2012] EWHC 3408 (QB) – read judgment The High Court has granted a medical testing laboratory a final injunction...
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Anti-fracking protesters’ Convention rights against private landowners
Manchester Ship Canal Developments v Persons Unknown [2014] EWHC 645 (Ch) – read judgment The High Court has ruled that Convention rights may be engaged in disputes between private landowners and...
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Democracy Village: Peaceful protest under human rights law
Brian Haw The Coalition Government have promised to “restore the right to non-violent protest”, but Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is bringing court proceedings to evict protesters from Parliament...
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Parliament Square protesters to be evicted by Mayor
The Mayor of London has won a court order to evict a camp of protesters from Parliamentary Square. The protesters have won a temporary reprieve by appealing the decision. As we posted earlier this...
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Parliament Square protesters evicted: analysis of judgment
The Mayor of London v Hall & Ors [2010] EWHC 1613 (QB) (29 June 2010) – Read judgment The Mayor of London has won a court order to evict a camp of protesters from Parliamentary Square, with the...
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Parliament Square protesters lose eviction appeal [updated]
Hall & Ors v Mayor of London (On Behalf of the Greater London Authority) [2010] EWCA Civ 817 (16 July 2010) – read judgment The Mayor of London has won a court order to evict a camp of protesters...
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“British soldiers go to hell” and free speech
Munim Abdul and Others v Director of Public Prosecutions [2011] EWHC 247 (Admin) – Read judgment The High Court has ruled that prosecution of a group of people who had shouted slogans, including, “burn...
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Metropolitan Police succeed in G20 “kettling” appeal
R (on the application of Hannah McClure and Joshua Moos) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2012] EWCA Civ 12 – Read judgment The Metropolitan Police has succeeded in its appeal against a...
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Analysis: Occupy London loses final eviction court challenge
The Mayor Commonality and Citizens of London – v – Samede, Barda, Ashman, Randle-Jolliffe, Moore and Persons Unknown [2012] EWCA Civ 160 – Read judgment Members of the Occupy London Movement who have...
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The troubling case of Rachel Corrie
Almost ten years after the death of Rachel Corrie on 16 March 2003, her case still raises troubling questions. How was a 23-year-old protester killed by an Israeli military bulldozer? Did the driver do...
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Ask and you shall receive – finally, an English translation of the Rachel...
Last month I posted on the troubling case of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old protester killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003. In August, an Israeli court ruled that the Israeli Defence Ministry...
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Article 11 and the Met’s “pay to protest” proposal
Photo credit: The Guardian A number of campaigning groups were recently informed by the Metropolitan Police that Scotland Yard would no longer provide traffic management at their planned...
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The private lives of child rioters
In the matter of an application by JR38 for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2015] UKSC 42 Does the publication of photographs of a child taken during a riot fall within the scope of Article 8 ECHR?...
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The line between legitimate protest and anti-social behaviour
Public order cases involving protests have always sparked controversy, with the collision between the state’s responsibility to ensure the smooth running of civil society and the individual citizen’s...
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Injunctions against “Persons unknown” in public protests curtailed – Gareth Rhys
Canada Goose UK Retail Ltd v Persons unknown and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) [2020] EWCA Civ 303 on appeal from [2019] EWHC 2459 (QB) – Gareth Rhys All references in square...
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The latest injunction against HS2 protestors bans nearly everyone anywhere on...
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited and the Secretary of State for Transport v Four Categories of Persons Unknown and Ross Monaghan and 58 other Named Defendants [2022] EWHC 2360 (KB) This case involved the...
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