16 August 2007
In brief
Restrictions placed on an anti-Iraq war protestor by police over his six-year peace vigil are unlawful, the High Court has ruled. However, in his judgment, the lord chief justice, Lord Phillips, warned Brian Haw that his protest could be severely restricted if he does not reach an agreement with the police. In Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw, Lord Phillips dismissed an appeal by the director of public prosecutions against a district judge’s decision that conditions imposed on Haw were so unclear as to be unworkable and a breach of his human rights.
