The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2019] PTSR 706
Queen’s Bench Division
Dulgheriu and another v Ealing London Borough Council
[2018] EWHC 1667 (Admin)
2018 June 7;July 2
Turner J
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 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, 66, 72