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British Airports Authority running scared over Climate Camp

climate camper | 26.07.2007 08:53 | Climate Chaos | London

"AIRPORT officials are attempting to legally block the heads of two campaign groups and their members from taking part in a week of protests against Heathrow.

"Geraldine Nicholson, chairwoman of No Third Runway Action Group (NoTRAG) and John Stewart, chairman of HACAN Clearskies, both received injunction documents from Heathrow Airport Ltd, part of BAA, one day after both attended a meeting held in Sipson on Thursday (19) to discuss the imminent arrival in the borough of Climate Camp.

"Lawyers for the airport are also seeking to make Mr Stewart, Mrs Nicholson and Leo Murray and Joss Garman from Plane Stupid personally responsible for anyone from their organisations who does get involved in the camp".

Full report courtesy of the Uxbridge Gazette here:

http://icuxbridge.icnetwork.co.uk/uxbridgegazette/headlines/tm_headline=legal-action-over-climate-camp-protests%26method=full%26objectid=19518657%26siteid=68148-name_page.html

For details of HACAN, NoTRAG and other protest groups see indymedia front page feature.

climate camper

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Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden?

26.07.2007 19:15

Local activist residents have repeatedly spoken of the ineptitude of BAA's Press Office.

Seems like their legal peeps may be from the same camp. Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden has a disastrous record, having advised EDO in Brighton and nPower at Radley lakes. In both cases these sort of injunctions were issued, in both cases they got appalling press reaction and in both cases they were ultimately defeated.

Hopefully the judges at the High Court will take the same dim view of these tactics as their predecessors.

mini mouse

note the wording of the injunction

26.07.2007 20:42

sounds like no judge has signed anything yet and its all to play for. individuals have been served but no hearing yet-probably a week or so away...I hope these people fight it with all they have.. and since climate camp is so
sucessfull already thats a good start...

injuncted

TLC the NATO commander

26.07.2007 21:21

Sychophantic bollocks from cambridge whos who.com...

Tim Lawson-Cruttenden is a solicitor-advocate who specializes in the law of harassment. He has a cutting edge reputation in the field of countering unlawful and intimidatory protesting activities. Over the past few years he has prosecuted extremists and activists who have been conducting activities against the pharmaceutical and defense industries. His clients include Oxford University, Bayer, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Chiron and EDO MBM Technologies Limited.

The protesters include animal rights activists, anti-GM crop and anti-war extremists. In January 2005 Lawyer Magazine voted him one of the top 100 lawyers in England and Wales. There are a number of reported cases in his name. In addition he regularly gives media interviews to national television and radio on issues concerned with the law of harassment, court martial law and the emergency in Iraq. In addition he 'second-strings' as a defense trial advocate in the courts martial jurisdiction. In this respect he is able to maintain his close association with the armed forces which he commenced during a short period of regular service with the Blues and Royals, and over twenty two years service with the army reserves.

His last military appointment involved the command of a reserve armoured car squadron which was trained for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization role.

He holds the Territorial Decoration. He acts as legal advisor to the Blues and Royals Association. In 1994 he became a co-founder of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates and he continues to serve on the committee of that organization. He is also a trustee of a number of charities. He is a keen Old Harrovian and he conducts numerous work placements for pupils of that school and of numerous other schools. He also offers internships to American students, many of whom come from Rochester, New York.His interests include running marathons as an amateur runner, writing and riding. He has co-authored two text books on the law of harassment and has published numerous academic articles. He helps exercise Household Cavalry horses in the mornings. Until recently he was active on the rugby field. He is a member of the Travellers, Cavalry and Guards Clubs.

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If things wern't so shit here....

26.07.2007 11:26

..then people wouldn't wanna fly abroad to 'get away from it all'!

It is getting out of hand though - compared to 25 years ago, the skys above the Weald of Kent and Sussex are loaded with f''ing planes...boom, roar, and that stupid 'whoop' as they drop out of the sky.

mmm! continuous economic growth really is so good isn't it petty little western mankind?

maybe not...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/index.html

You western self important egosiers are going to learn some very very hard lessons.

King Amdo

Who signed the injunction?

26.07.2007 17:43

So it's TLC again.

Who was the judge who signed the injunction?

legal observer

Thanks For The Publicity BAA

27.07.2007 07:07

BAA's bizarre decision to serve injunctions on a random and largely unconnected group of individuals and groups in an attempt to stop the Climate Camp has already begun to bear excellent fruit. Someone called John Stewart popped up on the Today Programme to point out the strangeness of it all. Lets all make as much out of this as possible - thanks to BAA, the Climate Camp can be even bigger! (By the way, what exactly is Plane Stupid? I've never heard of it ;-)

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