Dulgheriu v Ealing London Borough Council

Subject Matter

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 — Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), ss 59, 66, 72

[2018] EWHC 1667 (Admin); [2019] PTSR 706; [2018] 4 All ER 881, QBD

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 “those in the locality” including users of clinic — Whether clinic users’ Convention right to respect for private life engaged — Whether balance of competing Convention rights correctly undertaken — Whether order lawfully made — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 9, 10, 11 — Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), ss 59, 72(1)

[2019] EWCA Civ 1490; [2020] 1 WLR 609; [2020] PTSR 79; [2020] 3 All ER 545; [2019] WLR (D) 486, CA

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