UNANIMOUS! (which is often not the case in the H of L) Great job done by everyone involved in this. Seeing something like this all the way through takes a lot of stamina.

How much money have the cops spent on this? FOI request, anyone?

(from the Torygraph - best summary so far)

But there was a broader question: was it a procession at all? In Lord Phillips's view, it was not. And that raised the question of whether section 11 of the Public Order would apply to a new or one-off procession with no pre-determined route.

“Such events are now quite common around the world and it is certainly possible that organisers might wish to inaugurate one elsewhere in the United Kingdom,” Lord Phillips said. Would that be lawful?

Lord Pannick QC, appearing for the Metropolitan Police, had argued that it would not. “He submitted that section 11 required notice to be given of the proposal to hold such a procession and that the notice had to include a proposed route. Even if the organisers gave notice of the proposal to hold the procession, the notice would be defective if it did not specify a proposed route, rendering the organisers liable to prosecution if the procession took place.”

But Lord Phillips was “unable to give section 11 this draconian effect”. It was “inconceivable” that Parliament had intended to ban such processions by requiring advance notice.

Lord Rodger agreed. “If Parliament had actually intended to use the Public Order Act 1986 to outlaw processions of that kind without a predetermined route, then it would not have done so by a side wind in a section creating a system of notification: it would have done so specifically.”

Hi,
I'm writing from dissident island radio, and we'd love to talk to some of the people involved in this appeal. So, if you could drop us an email at  dissidentisland@riseup.net , that'd be sweet.
Iggy.

Bikeradar.com have a more indepth article:
 http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/victory-for-critical-mass-campaigners-19467