On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:37:36 +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:

Also, isn't it still illegal to protest outside Parliament? (Not that
I agree with that law, but I'm surprised not to have seen it mentioned
at all in media reports, or in these Usenet threads. The police
certainly used to be very active in enforcing it.)

Didn't the chap who has been there for years appeal against an order
that was issued for his removal and didn't the judges find that the law
contravened the Human Rights Act (or something similar)? In other words
the legislation cannot be applied. [I may be 100% wrong here!]

I thought that he won the case on the grounds that his protest had
started before the law was enacted, so he couldn't be prosecuted
because it would be a retrospective application of the law.