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R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (CA)

Author / Contributor: Jeremy Johnson QC
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R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (CA)
   
Issue: Whether officers had been entitled to stop coaches of protestors attending a demonstration at RAF Fairford, and whether they had been entitled forcibly to return the coaches under escort to London
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   2004/0608 and 2004/0615
   
Neutral Citation:   [2004] EWCA Civ 1639
   
Judge(s): Lord Woolf LCJ, Clarke and Rix LJJ
   
Date: 8 December 2004