The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2020] PTSR 79
Court of Appeal
Dulgheriu and another v Ealing London Borough Council (National Council for Civil Liberties (trading as Liberty) intervening)
[2019] EWCA Civ 1490
2019 July 16, 17;Aug 21
Sir Terence Etherton MR, King, Nicola Davies LJJ
Local government— Powers— Public spaces protection order— Local authority making public spaces protection order to control campaigning outside abortion clinic— Order imposing penalties for persons continuing to campaign inside “safe zone” immediately surrounding clinic— Whether statutory criteria for making order met— Whether “detrimental effect” of activities objective test— Whether clinic users’ Convention right to respect for private life engaged— Whether balance of competing Convention rights correctly undertaken— Whether order “necessary in a democratic society”— Whether order lawfully made—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 9, 10, 11
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Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), ss 59, 72(1)