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The Met's absolute ban on *all* of the Extinction Rebellion "Autumn Uprising" demos in London is almost certainly going to be a BIG deal for the law of protest - expect this to go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-500539…
Police have the powers to ban a protest under the Public Order Act if a senior officer has reasonable belief that it may cause "serious disruption to the life of the community".
Question is the balance with legal rights to freedom of assembly & speech. Those rights are not absolute - the state can curtail them. But the test, if and when it gets to a court battle, is whether police action was proportionate to threat and only what was strictly necessary.
Reminds me of the Great Kettling of 2001 and its role in modern protest law. I was in the thick of that (as a reporter) and many participants felt it was outrageous - but given threat of widespread disruption to London, the courts (inc Human Rights judges) backed police.
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