The Weekly Law Reports
[2018] 3 WLR 1695
Court of Appeal
Birmingham City Council v Jones (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
[2018] EWCA Civ 1189
2018 April 24,
25;
May 23
May 23
Sir Brian Leveson P, Underhill, Irwin LJJ
Injunction— Gang-related violence— Exercise of statutory jurisdiction— Statutory power to grant injunction in restraint of gang-related violence— Whether involving determination of criminal charge— Appropriate standard of proof— Whether scheme compatible with Convention right to fair trial—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 6
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Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c 26), s 34 (as amended by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c 9), s 51)
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Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), s 1