The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 234
King’s Bench Division
Rex (National Council for Civil Liberties) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2024] EWHC 1181 (Admin)
2024 Feb 28, 29; May 21
Green LJ, Kerr J
Crime— Public order— Public assembly— Government introducing regulations lowering threshold of when police can impose conditions on protests from anything causing “serious disruption” to “more than minor” disruption — Whether government erring— Whether regulations unlawful —
Public Order Act 1986 (c 64), ss 12(2), 14(11)
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Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32)
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Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023
(SI 2023/655)