Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in byelaws, demonstrations, human rights, law reports, nuclear weapons by sally

Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23; [2009] WLR (D) 35

“Para 7(2)(f) of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston Byelaws 2007, which prohibited the right of any member of the Women’s Peace Camp to camp within controlled areas on land owned by the Secretary of State for Defence to protest against nuclear weapons was not justifiable and violated the rights to individual freedom of expression and to freedom of peaceful assembly protected by arts 10 and 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom.”

WLR Daily, 5th February 2009

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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