{"id":1363,"date":"2021-06-27T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingstones.blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:38:55","slug":"uk-supreme-court-backs-citizens-rights-to-make-a-public-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"UK SUPREME COURT BACKS CITIZENS&#8217; RIGHTS TO MAKE A PUBLIC PROTEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some selected quotes from an article of a few hours ago (<strong>25th June 2021<\/strong>) bearing the good-news headline: Supreme Court backs protesters and rules blocking roads can be \u2018lawful\u2019 way to demonstrate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read the full article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deref-mail.com\/mail\/client\/13gdBPtmZb8\/dereferrer\/?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-gb%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2Fsupreme-court-backs-protesters-and-rules-blocking-roads-can-be-lawful-way-to-demonstrate%2Far-AALr8ls%3Focid%3Dmsnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A ruling given on Friday morning said that protesters can have a \u201clawful excuse\u201d defence against the statutory offence of obstructing a highway, even where they have used \u201cdeliberately physically obstructive conduct\u201d.<\/li><li>\u201cThere should be a certain degree of tolerance to disruption to ordinary life, including disruption of traffic, caused by the exercise of the right to freedom of expression or freedom of peaceful assembly,\u201d the majority ruling added.<\/li><li>Judges said that when interfering with the right to protest, factors must be considered including the extent to which demonstrators have broken the statute, their location, the duration of the protest, its interference with the rights of others and whether the action is over \u201cvery important issues\u201d.<\/li><li>\u201cIt is an important verdict, especially now, when the government is trying to crackdown even further on the right to protest. If the current proposals become statute, they will give even more powers to the police, while making it even harder for people to make their voices heard.\u201d<\/li><li>Parliament\u2019s Joint Committee on Human Rights said earlier this week that proposals to allow police to restrict protests on the basis of noise were \u201cnot necessary in a democratic society\u201d and must be scrapped.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>This report first published by Steve Cook &#8211; &#8216;The Liberty Beacon<\/em>&#8216;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some selected quotes from an article of a few hours ago (25th June 2021) bearing the good-news headline: Supreme Court backs protesters and rules blocking roads can be \u2018lawful\u2019 way to demonstrate You can read the full article&nbsp;HERE&nbsp; A ruling given on Friday morning said that protesters can have a \u201clawful excuse\u201d defence&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/?p=1363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK SUPREME COURT BACKS CITIZENS&#8217; RIGHTS TO MAKE A PUBLIC PROTEST<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingstones.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}