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Heathrow injunction: BAA wins its case
Posted by jamie on 6 August 2007.
This from Sky News on BAA's injunction:
The operator of Heathrow airport has been granted a High Court injunction banning unlawful behaviour by environmental activists next week.
BAA says it wants to protect the safety of staff and passengers during the busy holiday season.
But the Camp for Climate Action claims the injunction will stop millions from using roads and public transport near the airport.
Ahead of the decision, BAA's solicitor Tim Lawson-Cruttenden said the injunction was only aimed at protesters "who wish to act unlawfully".
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However, Nicholas Blake QC, representing various defendants, described the injunction application as an "exercise in confusion and futility", while protesters branded the move as "the mother of all injunctions".
Misleading title
The title "BAA wins injunction to ban five million people from Heathrow" is misleading.
The BAA have only banned "Plane Stupid and certain members of two other groups - Hacan Clearskies and the No Third Runway Action Group - if they were intent on unlawful action."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6932519.stm)
The news is very misleading. The BBC's original report posted at 10:30am was so unclear I couldn't understand it.
Also, headlines are claiming that BAA have won the injunction, when in fact they have only won against a small group, instead of the 5million people from 15 organisations they wanted to ban.
It seems to me that BAA have actually lost their original injunction and "won" this small injunction because that's all they could get
True
Indeed - as news has filtered out from the court, it seems BAA hasn't won quite as much as it wanted. Not nearly as much, in fact. I'm getting together a full report to publish later today.
web editor
gpuk
They did not win
It is dissapointing that Greenpeace has published such an inaccurate article and issued it by RSS. BAA won only the slightest injunction and not the biggest injunction in history they sought. It is a victory for campaigners.
Bodders
I over-egged the title, my
I over-egged the title, my fault, but the body of the story came directly from the story published on Sky News. A full story was published yesterday evening.
web editor
gpuk