Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 22 April 2014
Anti-fracking protesters cleared
Five anti-fracking protestors, including Green MP Caroline Lucas, found not guilty.



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Five anti-fracking protestors, including Green MP Caroline Lucas, found not guilty.
Three students accused of obstructing police officers during a peaceful protest at the University of Sussex have been acquitted. Shahida Begum and Owen Greenhall represented two of the defendants.
A student has been acquitted of threatening the Conservative MP for Hove, by calling him a coward.
160 lawyers signed a letter to the Guardian pointing out that the criminal trespass offence (s 144) was introduced on the basis of misinformation. The offence which deals with squatting in a residential building was introduced into the Legal Aid, Sentenci
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