Extinction Rebellion wins landmark legal challenge to Met Police ban on peaceful protest.
M2 PRESSWIRE-November 6, 2019-: Extinction Rebellion wins landmark legal challenge to Met Police ban on peaceful protest
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* The High Court rules the Metropolitan Polices blanket ban of Extinction Rebellion protests was unlawful
* The landmark judgment upholds the peoples fundamental right to peaceful protest and prohibits the Police from any such future ban
* Judicial review was brought on behalf of Extinction Rebellion by Baroness Jenny Jones, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis, David Drew, Ellie Chowns MEP, Adam Allnut and George Monbiot
* Several hundred Extinction Rebellion protesters, arrested under the ban, could now sue the Met for wrongful imprisonment and receive compensation
* Ruling in favour of Extinction Rebellion, the Court said: We have held that the decision to impose the condition was unlawful[the] decision to impose the condition on 14 October 2019 will be quashed.
The High Court has today ruled that the Metropolitan Polices blanket ban on Extinction Rebellion protest during the October Rebellion was unlawful, in a landmark judgment that reasserts the fundamental right to peaceful protest.
The ruling follows a judicial review - brought on behalf of Extinction Rebellion by Baroness Jenny Jones, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis, David Drew, Ellie Chowns MEP, Adam Allnut and George Monbiot - into the legality of the Mets attempt to shut down all Extinction Rebellion protests during most of the second week of the Autumn Rebellion.
The ban, implemented under Section 14 of the Public Order Act and covering the whole of London, came into effect at 9pm on Monday 14th October and lasted until 6pm on Friday 18th October.
Finding in Extinction Rebellions favour, Lord Justice...
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