Swindon Borough Council v Abrook

Subject Matter

INJUNCTION — Anti-social behaviour — Begging — Local authority obtaining anti-social behaviour injunction restraining respondent from begging — Respondent admitting breaches of injunction — District judge discharging injunction of own motion at hearing to sentence for breaches — Whether court having power to discharge anti-social behaviour injunction of own motion — Whether permissible for anti-social behaviour injunction to restrain behaviour if not itself anti-social — Whether “passive” begging capable of constituting anti-social behaviour — Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), ss 1, 2, 8

[2024] EWCA Civ 230; [2025] KB 32; [2024] 3 WLR 739; [2024] WLR(D) 110, CA

Commentary

Local Government Lawyer
Court of Appeal rejects distinction between ‘aggressive’ and ‘passive’ begging when it comes to obtaining anti-social behaviour injunctions Case comment