The Weekly Law Reports
[1974] 2 WLR 58
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
BROOME APPELLANT AND DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS RESPONDENT
[On appeal from HUNT v. BROOME]
1973 Dec. 4,
5;
20
Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Lord Hodson, Viscount Dilhorne and Lord Salmon
Industrial Relations
— Pickets
— Attendance at place
— Highway obstructed by picket with placard standing in front of lorry and urging driver not to work
— Whether authorised act
—
Highways Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2, c. 25), s. 121
—
Industrial Relations Act 1971 (c. 72), s. 134
Highway
— Obstruction
— Strike picket
— Picket obstructing highway by standing in front of lorry urging driver not to work
— Whether obstruction excused
—
Highways Act 1959, s. 121
—
Industrial Relation Act 1971, s. 134