Stopping Protesters By The Coachload Outlawed
(Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary
[2006] UKHL 55
HL(E)
13 December 2006
Daily Law Notes Summary
It was unlawful for police officers, when relying on their duty
to keep the peace, to intercept coach passengers travelling from
London to a protest demonstration in Gloucestershire and prevent
them from continuing to the demonstration since the threshold
requirement, that a breach of the peace was imminent, was not
met.