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Heathrow Airport Ltd. and Another v. Garman and Others

Reporter Info: [2007] EWHC 1957
Status: Injunction granted
Case Categories:
  • Suits against corporations, individuals
    • Protesters
Jurisdictions:
  • United Kingdom
    • England and Wales
      • High Court of Justice
Principal Laws:
  • United Kingdom
    • Nuisance
  • United Kingdom
    • Trespass
Summary:

A United Kingdom court granted injunctive relief to control a probable campaign of direct action and civil disobedience by environmental activists in the immediate vicinity of a UK airport. Environmental groups were planning to organize a climate change awareness/action event, likely to attract thousands of activists, in the immediate vicinity of Heathrow Airport. The court ordered an injunction under the common law torts of trespass and nuisance forbidding the protesters from disrupting or impairing the operation of the airport.

At Issue: Request for injunction against environmental activists attempting to disrupt the operations of an airport
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Summary
08/06/2007 Judgment Download No summary available.

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