Anti-war demonstration legal observer Paul Leoniowski was today released on bail
from Lewes prison after a Crown Court Judge overturned a Brighton District Judge's
decision to remand him for a minor breach of EDO MBMs controversial interim civil
injunction
There will now be a pre-trial review at Brighton Magistrates court on Thursday 23rd
10am, (PLEASE NOTE: Not weds 22 at lewes crown court as wrongly stated in the
previous press release) Because the maximum penalty is five years Paul has a right
to a jury trial in the Crown Court which he has requested.There will be a support
demonstration outside Brighton magistrates court from 9:30am.Thursday 23rd .
Demonstrations continue outside EDO MBM in Home Farm Road,Brighton every Wednesday
4-6pm.
Paul is as having a beer.
from Lewes prison after a Crown Court Judge overturned a Brighton District Judge's
decision to remand him for a minor breach of EDO MBMs controversial interim civil
injunction
There will now be a pre-trial review at Brighton Magistrates court on Thursday 23rd
10am, (PLEASE NOTE: Not weds 22 at lewes crown court as wrongly stated in the
previous press release) Because the maximum penalty is five years Paul has a right
to a jury trial in the Crown Court which he has requested.There will be a support
demonstration outside Brighton magistrates court from 9:30am.Thursday 23rd .
Demonstrations continue outside EDO MBM in Home Farm Road,Brighton every Wednesday
4-6pm.
Paul is as having a beer.
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beer
21.06.2005 07:00
m'lord
Paul rebailed today till commital July 29th
23.06.2005 11:55
The maximum penalty for a breach of a High Court interim injunction under section 3 of the Pretection from Harassment Act 1997 is five years imprisonment.
No political activist or demonstrator has ever been convicted of this offence to this day.
Only a handfull of prosecutions have ever been brought against demonstrators or protestors under a harassment injunction breach offence.Pauls alleged breach was to film a 'protected person'. No violence or threat of violence was alleged to have been commited by Paul. He was acting as a legal observer on the day and the men he filmed did not identify themselves as protected under the injunction.
Meanwhile a date for the full trial of the EDO injunction has been listed for 21st November and is expected to last two weeks. It will take place in the high court, royal courts of justice, the strand, london.
There the evidence for 'harassment' against several named protestors will be examined properly for the first time. This is likely to be too late for Paul's case-who is not even named on the injunction-and there is a possibility that he could be convicted and imprisoned (again) for a breach of the interim injunction which is only based on prima facia examination of the arguments in the case.
Demonstrations continue outside EDO MBM , homefarm road, moulsecoomb, Brighton.Every Wednesday 4-6pm
plsg