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Oxford Wins Protest Injunction CaseMon, October 16, 2006Source: AnanovaOxford University has won a ruling that the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)'s press officer is bound by an injunction banning protests at its new biomedical research laboratory.Oxford University has won a ruling that the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)'s press officer is bound by an injunction banning protests at its new biomedical research laboratory. Mr Justice Irwin said that Robin Webb, who was appointed in 1991, was a "central and pivotal figure" in the organisation who was fully adherent to its aims, strategy and tactics. He was not a journalist, but a propagandist who "echoed the threat from the ALF to the University". His was a "conscious contribution to the fear sought to be exercised by the ALF and associated groupings upon the University of Oxford and all those who co-operate with them", he said. The injunction against a number of named individuals and groups allows a weekly demonstration opposite the £20 million South Parks Road site, but otherwise bans all protest activities within a designated exclusion zone to protect staff, students and contractors from intimidation and harassment. |