The construction of HS2 has provided work for criminal lawyers as well as construction engineers, writes NLJ columnist David Walbank KC, of Red Lion Chambers, in this week’s ‘Crime Brief’. Walbank looks at the recent case concerning protestors who tunnelled beneath Euston Square Gardens in central London.
Walbank writes: ‘The operation to evict them involved the full panoply of specialist teams and emergency services and, after an elaborate game of cat and mouse, it was another month before the site was cleared, at a cost of more than £4m.’
But was there a criminal case to answer? The prosecution, after failing to find success, applied for judicial review. The case raised several interesting questions—find the answers in the latest Crime Brief here.
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