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Attorney general argues that protestors’ views are no defence to criminal damage

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Joshua Rozenberg
Feb 21, 2024
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The Court of Appeal will consider today whether protestors in England and Wales have a defence to charges of criminal damage if they honestly believe that organisations whose property they deface or destroy would have given their consent.

A paint protest in Edinburgh, June 2022

That question will be considered by the lady chief justice Baroness Carr of Wa…

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