According to the Associated Press, and this via The Guardian:
Government wins war protest appealPress Association
Monday May 8, 2006 10:48 AMThe Government has won an appeal against a legal ruling which allowed anti-war protester Brian Haw to continue his long-running vigil outside Parliament.
Last July Mr Haw, from Worcestershire, won a High Court action against new laws threatening his round-the-clock demonstration, which he began in Parliament Square in June 2001.
The court then ruled that legislation aimed at controlling demonstrations around the Houses of Parliament did not apply to 56-year-old Mr Haw.
But at the Court of Appeal, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, Lord Justice Laws and Lady Justice Hallett overturned that decision.
Mr Haw was not at the London courtroom for the ruling.
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Will Brian Haw be evicted from his peace camp in Parliament Square, or will he eventually be forced to apply for prior written permission and be subject to arbitrary restrictions on his protest ?
Why is the Government persecuting inividuals in this way , simply for peacefully expressing their opionons and beliefs and peacefully assembling in a traditional place of public protest ?
It does not matter wether you agree or disagree with Brian Haw's views on the Iraq war etc., everybody is having their freedom to protest or demonstrate peacefully crushed by the Labour government and the Home Office and Metropolitan Police bureaucracies,
It is an affront to our democracy, and is something which will be cheered by our enemies.