Case No: C1/2005/1915
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
COURT OF supplication (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE DIVISIONAL COURT
The Rt Hon Lady justness Smith, the Hon Mr Justice McCombe
and the Hon Mr Justice Simon
[2005] EWHC 2061 (Admin)
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 08/05/2006
Before :
SIR ANTHONY CLARKE MR
LORD JUSTICE LAWS
and
brothel keeper JUSTICE HALLETT
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Between :
|THE QUEEN ON THE APPLICATION OF emit |Claimant/Respondent|
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|(1) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT - and (2) COMMISSIONER OF THE metropolitan POLICE SERVICE|First Defendant/AppellantSecondDefendant|
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Mr Richard Drabble QC and Ms Zoe Leventhal (instructed by Messrs Bindman & Partners) for the Claimant
Mr David Pannick QC and Mr David Pievsky (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the First Defendant
Mr Adam Clemens (instructed by the metropolitan Police) for the Second Defendant
Hearing date: 03 April 2006
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Judgment
Sir Anthony Clarke MR: Introduction1.This is the judgment of the court.
The responder in this appeal is Brian Haw, who is a well-known figure in Parliament Square or, if he is not himself well-known, his demonstration is. He has been demonstrating there since June 2001. He lives on the pavement and displays a tumid number of placards. As Smith LJ put it in the divisional Court, initially his intention was to protest about sanctions against Iraq but to a greater extent recently it has been to protest against the Governments policy in Iraq. In 2002 Westminster City Council sought an injunction requiring him to remove his placards on the basis that they were an obstruction to the highway. The application for an injunction failed. Gray J held that the respondents demonstration neither caused an...If you want to stimulate a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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