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Schnews Stunts Include: Being Warned for Re-Writing (Schnews 531), Amid Revelations of the 573 And WAKE UP!! IT'S YER WELCOME TO THE INCLUSION ZONE... Friday 23rd March 2007 Free/Donation Issue 581 one court case that he helps draft the head of NETCU’s public statements in a classic PUTTING ON THE WRITS Neo-Labour public-private partnership. Cross(ly) examining the dodgy legal world of protest exclusion injunctions Busy Tim also fi nds time to be a direc- tor of Inquire, an organisation dedicated to Last week the mainstream press and civil ment Act, originally presented as protecting surveillance and tracing of individuals for liberties organisations took a belated inter- vulnerable people from stalkers (and which corporate clients. est in the human rights abuses conducted he helped draft by the way; now there’s an under the Protection from Harassment eye for an opportunity), into a charter for HARASS BANDITS Act 1997 (PHA). An injunction under the act corporate repression he’s made a tidy pile. But unfortunately for TLC and NETCU has been used on environmental protestors Not content with having written the law, things are slowly becoming unstuck: the in Oxfordshire trying to stop the dumping of TLC’s legal chicanery has become notorious. collapse of the injunction at EDO MBM toxic ash into Radley Lakes (see SchNEWS Stunts include: being warned for re-writing (SchNEWS 531), amid revelations of the 573 and www.saveradleylakes.org.uk). It not judgements in his favour to secure disclosure unorthodox attitude to legal disclosure, was only bans peaceful protest at the site, but also from the police; amending particulars of followed by the utter failure of the injunction stops anybody from fi lming within a mile. claim (i.e. allegations made against individu- by Harrod’s to prevent anti-fur protests. More When the censure hit press photographer als) days before going to court and deluging recently, an attempt to bang up the princi- Adrian Arbib, ordered to stop fi lming by the court with irrelevant material. This might pal spokesmen of the SPEAK campaign, masked security guards, Mel Broughton and Robert and Channel 4 News “The whole point of the injunctions is to use the veneer of combating extremism to Cogswell (campaigning to crackdown on legitimate protest. These injunctions have no impact on those committed prevent the building of a couldn’t show footage, the to illegal courses of action, they’re a way of cracking down on the most effective protest implications for freedom movement in the UK” - Dr Max Gastone university primate research of speech fi nally seem to lab), under contempt of be register among the Guardianistas. just be incompetence but it has the knock-on court charges failed. It was this which led Ironically, last week was also show-down effect of upping the costs of the action mean- to Oxford Uni realising that the stress of it time for the fl agship injunction against Stop ing that anyone contesting the injunction runs all was perhaps getting a bit much for our Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC see the risk of bankruptcy. Judges have even hapless hero and wisely decided to engage SchNEWS 411). This was the fi rst injunction forced him at times to employ barristers to the services of a different fi rm. served on protestors under the PHA, setting sort out his messes! But TLC remains as devious as ever and, the tone for the twenty odd which have fol- CAUGHT IN THE NETCU still working for lucrative clients Hunting- lowed. After four years of legal wrangling, Although supposedly a private lawyer don Life Sciences, also recently attempted largely caused by Huntingdon Life Sciences’ working on behalf of private companies, to seize the property of Donald Curry. Don- (HLS) legal team (Judge Holland wryly com- TLC has had access to swathes of informa- ald had been one of those originally named mented that the 36 ringbinders of evidence tion supposedly restricted for police use. He on the fi rst injunction who didn’t enter a presented was “excessive by, say, about 30” gets a surprising number of people’s names defence. Like Lynn Sawyer (see SchNEWS - one of the more vicious aspects of the PHA and addresses, mobile phone numbers and 471) this meant the vivisection company injunctions has been their use to load costs previous convictions. At least one activist’s were able to get a costs order against him. on to unrepresented defendants by wasting personal directory stolen from his home has Unlike with Lynn however, the costs order court time). HLS did however secure an ended up in TLC’s possession. Perhaps this was never enforced... until Donald got sent order against SHAC, and anybody ‘acting in shouldn’t be surprising as he works hand in to prison. Only then did TLC pounce with an concert’ with them (at an estimated cost of glove with the National Extremism Tactical attempt to seize his house, force its sale and over a million quid). The order maintains an Co-ordinating Unit (NETCU). leave his wife and three kids homeless. exclusion zone around the Cambridgeshire NETCU is the bastard child of such re- Despite the diffi culties of organising HQ. But activist lay attorney-at-law Dr Max nowned organisations as the Animal Rights legal support for a category A prisoners, Gastone fought a valiant rearguard action by National Index (ARNI), the National Public self-taught animal rights lawyers (legal appearing as an unpaid representative for all Order Intelligence Unit and Special Branch. beagles?) sprang into action and were able the unnamed protestors affected by the in- They make few bones about their status as to prove that TLC’s handling of the service junction. Crucially HLS failed to prevent the political police. Their job is effectively to use of amplifi ed sound during demos (the big- of the injunction was so fl awed that not only ensure that protest stays safely ineffective. As was the costs order against Donald’s house gest sticking point for them) and SHAC now their website says, “We support the business have the right to hold a national demo every dropped but the whole injunction against and academic sectors, providing a centralised him was set aside! The sticking point in three months inside the exclusion zone. source of information, advice, guidance and Despite this, the injunction still stands; Donald’s case, as ever, was accurate dis- liaison on strategies to withstand domestic closure of TLCs relationship with the police a crucial plank in UK Plc’s attack on civil extremist attacks.” Domestic extremism liberties and the right to demonstrate. In- as defi ned by NETCU means any from of – something he is charmingly coy about. No junction-wielding lawyer Timothy Lawson protest outside the law. And as was shown wonder his clients are leaving in droves. Cruttenden, or TLC as he probably doesn’t with last week’s lengthy prison sentences But other, perhaps more competent, call himself (see SchNEWS 509), is the man handed out to Mark and Suzanne Taylor and fi rms are now stepping into the breach and behind the exclusion zones surrounding vivi- Teresa Portwine for offi ce occupations and SchNEWS reckons we haven’t seen the back section labs and arms factories. He’s made demos (see SchNEWS 580), when it comes of the Harassment Act by a long way... his living from introducing what amounts to to protesting animal abuse in UK labs there’s * 27th April: March against the Money PFI martial law around some of Babylon’s precious little left that isn’t against the law. Men – a demo against the fi nancial backers more noxious manifestations, pleading over Where TLC ends and NETCU begins of HLS. Central London – location to be twenty injunctions, banging up activists and isn’t all that clear – with TLC revealing in confi rmed. www.shac.net attempting to seize their homes along the Copyleft way. By twisting the Protection from Harass- Published in Brighton since 1994 IN GOLD BLOOD BUNCH OF CNUTS SchNEWS in brief SchNEWS knows already that gold comes at a The year long ‘rolling’ demo at Faslane Naval The six hunger strikers in Bhopal (see SchNEWS steep price. As well as carving up large swathes Base continues (see SchNEWS 565)... Two 580) gave up their fasts after 14 days when the State of eastern Europe (See SchNEWS 553-554), cor- recent examples of escapades followed last govt agreed to most of their demands in one of porations are also busy tearing up land elsewhere week’s govern-mental green light to renew biggest successes since the disaster in 1984 – getting in search of nice shiny profi ts - places like Siria Trident. On Saturday (17) fifteen Spaniards the state govt to reveal soil and ground water Valley in Honduras. from the AA-MOC group blockaded the main contamination around the accident site, provide To maximise returns from the San Martin gold gate and caused a right bloody mess by dousing safe water in the affected area, more medicines and mine, the largest in the country, Canadian company themselves in red paint, symbolising the loss staff at the hospital, and other community support. (wait for it..) 'Goldcorp’ (!) use open cast mining of blood that nuclear weapons cause. Bemused See www.bhopal.net ** The sheriff can’t be happy techniques: whole mountainsides are blown apart cops were so hesitant to get their hands dirty as Nottingham was hit with the debut edition of by dynamite. An average of 18 tonnes of waste they all donned fetching white jumpsuits before “The Sparrow” newletter this month. Produced rock is produced to get enough gold for one ring! It arresting the activists.
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