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[2024] WLR(D) 414

Court of Appeal

Rex v Smith (Joshua) and others

[2024] EWCA Crim 1040

2024 June 26;
Sept 13

Holroyde LJ, Griffiths J, Judge Dean KC

Nuisance— Public nuisance— Statutory offence— Defendant protestors entering race track at Silverstone and disrupting British Grand Prix— Defendants charged with causing public nuisance— Whether defendants creating risk of serious harm to “section of the public”— Meaning of “section of the public”— Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32), s 78

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