Environmental Protest

Garden Court is renowned as one of the leading chambers in the UK for defending protesters, including environmental protestors.

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Garden Court is renowned as one of the leading chambers in the UK for protest work, specialising in civil liberties, human rights and criminal defence.

We are ranked as a leading chambers in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for our expertise in these areas of law.

Our barristers have considerable experience defending environmental protesters in criminal proceedings, including:

Greenpeace activists
Anti-fracking protestors
Anti-GM crop protesters
The ‘Heathrow 13’
G20 Climate Camp protesters

In the civil jurisdiction, we have pursued legal action in the High Court on human rights grounds against energy companies, such as Ineos and UK Oil & Gas, who seek draconian injunctions to restrict the legitimate right to protest.

Our barristers have authored the key text on protest rights, The Protest Handbook. 

Recent Notable Cases & News

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Friday 31 May 2024

Greenpeace Activists acquitted of protest on roof of former Prime Minister’s home

Owen Greenhall, co-convenor of the Garden Court Protest Law Team, represented all defendants at trial. He was instructed by Mike Schwarz of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors.

Friday 20 Sep 2024

Friends of the Earth takes legal challenge against anti-protest injunctions to European Court of Human Rights

Friends of the Earth is represented in these proceedings by Stephanie Harrison KC, Stephen Clark and Fatima Jichi of Garden Court Chambers and by Wessen Jazrawi at the law firm Hausfeld.

Friday 24 May 2024

Greenpeace activists acquitted in trial alongside Greta Thunberg

Owen Greenhall, of the Garden Court Protest Team, was instructed be Mike Schwarz of Hodge Jones and Allen solicitors. Raj Chada also of Hodge Jones & Allen represented the co-defendants.

Friday 2 Feb 2024

Garden Court secures top tier rankings in the Legal 500 UK 2024

Garden Court Chambers is proud to be recognised as a Top Tier set again in the Legal 500 UK 2024 rankings.

Wednesday 4 Oct 2023

Paul Clark co-authors chapter in ‘Litigating the Climate Emergency How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action’

Paul Clark is a co-author of Chapter 18, 'Climate Litigation before International Tribunals: The Six Portuguese Youth v. 33 Governments of Europe Case before the European Court of Human Rights' of Litigating the Climate Emergency, alongside Gerry Liston. The book is edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito. About the Book Litigating the Climate Emergency is the first book to offer a systematic analysis […]

Monday 14 Nov 2022

Past Notable Cases

 

LGT FFT and DGLG v Wolverhampton CC (FoE and Liberty intervening) 
The Supreme Court has granted Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT), London Gypsies and Travellers (LGT) and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group (DGLG) permission to appeal the use of these wide-ranging ‘anti-Traveller’ injunctions taken out by Wolverhampton City Council and numerous other councils. Marc Willers KC is leading Tessa Buchanan and Owen Greenhall, and Stephanie Harrison KC is leading Stephen Simblet KC and Fatima Jichi.

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