Response 3581452

Response to request for information

Reference

3581452

Response date

20 November 2024

Request

1. 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 judgement
• 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.

2. Please specify the total amount of legal costs incurred by your public body to date in regard to each injunction listed in response to 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
3. 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.
4. For each injunction listed in response to Q1, please specify the total amount of legal costs that have been passed on to protesters named in the judgement. Please break this figure down by the number of protesters ordered to pay costs.
5. For each injunction listed in response to Q1, please specify the total amount of money in legal costs that has been recouped from protesters named in the judgement. Please break this figure down by the total number of protesters from which your organisation has recouped its costs.
6. For each injunction listed in response to Q1, please specify how many individuals have been arrested for a suspected breach of the injunction.
7. For each injunction listed in response to Q1, please specify how many individuals have been found to have breached the injunction and the penalty that was imposed on each individual. Please include both fines issued as well as sentences/suspended sentences handed down.

Response

We have checked our records and can confirm that no civil injunctions restricting protest have been applied for and granted to Rushcliffe Borough Council since 2018.  We do not therefore have anything to disclose in this regard.