the notice of trespass brought on the democracy village by the GLA has been adjourned once again at a high court hearing. further argumants will be heard on friday at the high court.

mr justice maddison today said that although his provisional view is that the attempt to evict the camp on the basis of trespass is 'likely to succeed', it does throw up legitimate arguments about the right to protest which will have to be heard in a new court hearing next friday.

the villagers are arguing (among other things) that they are protesting against an illegal war, and any attempt to remove them on the basis of a handful of complaints from the public shows an immoral support for that war, while their own actions are a moral stance protected by the human rights act.

further, they argue that the GLA does not have the power to use bye-laws against such a legitimate protest as they are only tasked with the management of the land for the public, and it will have to be the queen that evicts them for trespass as she was officially "given" the land by the government in the GLA Act in 1999.

supporters are welcome at the high court in the strand on friday