Parliament Square Demo

Demonstrations - SOCPA
R (Haw) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another
[2006] EWCA Civ 532
CA
8 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
Adopting a purposive construction, s132(1) of the Serious
Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 applied to all demonstrations
including those which had begun before the section came into
force.  A blow for Brian Haw, the man with the megaphone in
Parliament Square.