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R (ON THE APPLICATION OF JANE LAPORTE) v CHIEF CONSTABLE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE (2006)

PUBLISHED December 13, 2006
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[2006] UKHL 55

The police had not acted lawfully in preventing coach passengers reaching the site of a demonstration because it could not be concluded that a breach of the peace was "imminent" at the time the coaches were stopped. The action was an interference with the protesters' rights under the Human Rights Act 1998 Sch.1 Part I Art.10 and Sch.1 Part I Art.11 and was disproportionate.

HL (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance)

13/12/2006

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