The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 537
King’s Bench Division
Shell UK Ltd v Persons Unknown
Shell International Petroleum Co Ltd v Persons Unknown
Shell UK Oil Products Ltd v Persons Unknown & others
[2024] EWHC 3130 (KB)
2024 Oct 22, 23; Dec 5
Dexter Dias J
Injunction— Trespass— Persons unknown— Oil and gas companies obtaining injunctions against environmental protesters to restrain unlawful protest activities— Whether grant of final injunctions unnecessary and disproportionate interference with defendants’ Convention rights— Whether injunctions in breach of Aarhus Convention— Applicability and legal relevance of Aarhus Convention in environmental protest injunctions—
Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 37
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 9, 10, 11
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Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998), art 3(8)