THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE NICKLIN Approved Judgment
MBR Acres Ltd -v- Free the MBR Beagles
(1) The Claimants sought the imposition of the following further restrictions by way of interim injunction: “(5) The Third to Ninth, Eleventh to Twenty-Fourth and Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Defendants MUST NOT attempt to compel or coerce any Protected Person to cease their lawful activities for or on behalf of the First Claimant by:
(a) attending their place of work (whether that be their principal place of work or where they conduct their lawful activities for and on behalf of the First Claimant from time to time) and attempting to obstruct them in their lawful activities whilst at their place of work; (b) knowingly enter or remain on any premises and/or land and/or residence belonging to or occupied by any Protected Person; (c) harming a Protected Person and/or their property or attempting to do the same. The Third to Ninth, Eleventh to Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Eighth to Thirty-Second Defendants MUST NOT : (a) Obstruct, deface, damage or otherwise interfere with the Noticeboard at the Wyton Site or any other signage advising of the presence of this Order; (b) Obstruct, approach, hinder or otherwise interfere with any person instructed by the Claimants when that person is posting documents onto, or otherwise attending to, the Noticeboard at the Wyton Site.
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(2) Linked to this, the Claimants also sought to insert the following into the definitions section of the interim injunction order: “‘Protected Persons’ shall mean: (a) all staff, employees, officers and contractors of the First and Third Claimants working at the Wyton Site or the B&K Site; (b) all staff, employees and officers of Impex Services International Limited. The ‘Noticeboard at the Wyton Site’ shall mean the noticeboard on which the Claimants display this Order, which noticeboard is located on the opposite side of the highway to the Wyton Site (that highway being known as the B1090).” 14. The effect of the revised definition of “Protected Persons”, the definition of the class represented by the Second Claimant, and the various definitions of the “Persons Unknown” Defendants is to seek the imposition of an interim injunction that has a potentially very wide reach, well beyond the protest activities at the Wyton Site, with which the Court has previously been concerned. The restrictions in the new
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