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Human Rights

I do not think that it is an isolated case—that is the problem. Indeed, the BBC produced a programme about this issue of injunctions in the middle of last year. It found quite a few cases in which the civil injunction procedure was being used to restrain potential protests. The real question is this: is the state facilitating protest or preventing it? To an extent, that issue is mixed up with the issue of private land and private-public space. However, the fact remains that the safeguards are simply not there in any meaningful way, and although it may be theoretically possible for people to come back afterwards and challenge such injunctions, in practice that does not work. There is no urgency about these things.