18 Cases found
Décrochons Macron
At issue: 1) Whether climate activists unhooking presidential portraits acted in a “state of necessity” to warn about the President’s climate inaction.
2) Whether unhooking presidential portraits to denounce the President’s climate inaction is an action of general interest and a form of expression protected by freedom of expression.
Jurisdictions:
Police v Hanafin
At issue: Whether protestors who trespassed on an oil platform should be convicted.
Jurisdictions:
R. v Brown (Extinction Rebellion protest, London City Airport)
At issue: Whether choosing to prosecute an XR protester for the offense of public nuisance was an abuse of process where alternative statutory offenses were available.
Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport v Climate Activists
At issue: Whether climate activists protesting the expansion of a Paris airport acted in a “state of necessity” to warn about the effects of climate change.
Jurisdictions:
ADP Group (Paris Airports) v. Climate Activists
At issue: Whether climate activists protesting the expansion of a Paris airport acted in a “state of necessity” to warn about the effects of climate change.
R v. Bramwell et al (“The Shell Six case”)
At issue: Whether extinction rebellion protestors who caused damage to Shell's headquarters to protest the environmental damage caused by the company should be convicted of criminal damage.
Jurisdictions:
Attorney General v. Crosland
At issue: Whether a barrister who breached a Supreme Court embargo by publishing the outcome of a case 24 hours early should be held in criminal contempt of court.
Jurisdictions:
EH v Queensland Police Service; GS v Queensland Police Service
At issue: Whether climate protesters were unlawfully convicted for protesting coal mine.
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Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair
At issue: Pipeline protesters sought to assert necessity defense
Jurisdictions:
Trial of Angela Ditchfield
At issue: Whether climate protester could assert necessity defense to escape liability for vandalism.
Credit Suisse Protesters Trials
At issue: Climate activists arrested for trespassing
Jurisdictions:
R v Roberts
At issue: Whether anti-fracking protesters should receive custodial sentences.
R v Basto
At issue: Climate protesters found guilty of aggravated trespass for occupying airport runway.
Take Down Macron Protester Cases
At issue: Climate activists defend against theft and refusal to identify charges by claiming civil disobedience was necessary to bring attention to France's failure to meet its climate targets
Jurisdictions:
The Kingsnorth Six Trial
At issue: Determine whether Greenpeace activists' trespass at coal-fired power plant made them criminally liable
Jurisdictions:
Heathrow Airport Ltd. and Another v. Garman and Others
At issue: Request for injunction against environmental activists attempting to disrupt the operations of an airport
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Director of Public Prosecutions v. Fraser and O’Donnell
At issue: Criminal suit against protestors for causing damage to property