Key information
Request reference number: MGLA220824-9692
Date of response:
Summary of request
You requested:
I’m seeking information about civil injunctions your organisation has sought and been granted to restrict “protest activities”, which I would like you to interpret as including but not limited to the following activities: encampments, chanting, gatherings and demonstrations, written or verbal comments and flyering.
- A list of all civil injunctions restricting protest applied and granted to your public body since 2018. For each injunction listed, please provide:
- A copy of the court judgment
- A copy of any maps detailing the geographic where the injunction applies
If all injunctions are already in the public domain, please provide hyperlinks to where I can locate them.
- Please specify the total amount of legal costs incurred by your public body to date in regard to each injunction listed in Q1, including any costs passed onto the protesters named in the injunction. Please break this figure down by the name of each legal firm/lawyer to which the cost are owed
- For each injunction listed in response to Q1, please specify the total amount contributed towards legal costs by other organisations or individuals. Please break the total figure down by the name of the organisation or individual and the amount of their contribution.
- For each injunction listed in Q1, please specify the total amount of legal costs that have been passed on to protesters named in the judgment. Please break this figure down by the number of protesters ordered to pay costs.
- For each injunction listed in Q1, please specify the total amount of money in legal costs that has been recouped from protesters named in the judgment. Please break this figure down by the total number of protesters from which your organisation has recouped its costs.
Our response:
I can confirm that the GLA does hold this information within scope of your request.
There have been no injunctions against protestors since 2018 for Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square and City Hall, which are the responsibility of the GLA.