No Tesco Campaign Fined After Taking On Council: Help Needed!

imcvol | 12.04.2012 16:55

The No Tesco in Stokes Croft Campaign took Bristol City Council to court. Despite exposing the flawed planning process, the Council won. Nearly £2500 costs were awarded against the No Tesco Campaign. Bristolians have been asked to help collectivly pay the fine...

£2500 Fine despite exposing the flawed planning process...

The No Tesco Campaign writes; Prepare to party at the People's Republic of Stokes Croft!

On Friday 13 April at 7.30 pm, the No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaigners are holding a fundraising night at 35 Jamaica Street, BS2 8JP - with DJs, live music, poetry, street theatre, and The Occasional Cinema in the adjoining Yard.

Buy a limited edition "I paid the fine" mug - £12 each - and you could win 12 of the last post-riot "Tesco Value Petrol Bomb" posters donated by Banksy (pictured).

Randomly selected, 12 of the mugs will come with the graffiti artist's original April 2011 "commemorative souvenir poster".

Mugs with Banksy posters are available ONLY on the night of Friday 13 April 2012.

We are partying a year after Tesco opened in Stokes Croft on 16 April 2011.

We tried to stop Tesco with every legal means - and we lost.

We may have lost the legal battle but the war is by no means over.

As the Bristol People's Supermarket starts to trade, the Boycott Tesco campaign continues and the Carriageworks and Westmoreland House Action Group gains momentum, local resilience continues to thrive.

Check this latest piece on Stokes Croft from the Guardian on Bristol's most bohemian neighbourhood.

Help pay off our £2,000 judicial review court costs - and be part of social history. Full article...

imcvol
Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/708319

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No, logically, from this article, the campaign was not fined:

12.04.2012 19:58

A fine is a penal tax; a tax levied as a punishment.

Court costs are the fairly earned wages of the court, for providing a service to the plaintiff / accuser.

Defence costs are the costs incurred by the defendant / accused, to an claim / accusation which proves to be false.

Prosecution costs are the costs incurred by the plaintiff / accuser.

anarchist

Appeal

13.04.2012 00:17

why not lodge an appeal to the upper tribunal court for the costs order

counsel from hell

was their a jury

13.04.2012 06:33

the up set

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Local people will have the final vote

13.04.2012 09:06

Clearly the locals will decide the success or otherwise of this store by either shopping there or going elsewhere. I am sure if the views and opinions of the 'STOP' group are right then the shop will fail to sell anything and close however the history of these stores is that people like them, take benefit from the low prices and fresh food and they prosper.

Bill

planning permission refused for IKea in DE - bad for small trade and pollution

13.04.2012 23:04

sorry for the loss!
Look at this what happend in germany against IKEA, too much pollution and endangering of small businesses:

http://www.ka-news.de/region/rastatt/Tschuess-Billy-Ikea-Ansiedlung-in-Rastatt-unzulaessig;art6216,558732

funnoy

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