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UK: LONDON: Police get new power to clear Paternoster Square of protesters... with no order from court

11 August 2014

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"the City of London Corporation has granted the square, which is home to the London Stock Exchange, the status of “City walkway”. It means police can close Paternoster Square, and six adjoining lanes and alleys, immediately in the case of “imminent threat” or “force majeure”, the civil law term for unforeseen events. The move is part of a deal between the City, the square’s freeholders, and Canadian-owned Oxford Properties Group, which owns most of the buildings on the site. Oxford Properties Group requested extra powers that included “the ability ... to restrict access to the estate in the case of demonstration or terrorist threat”."

See the article: Police get new power to clear Paternoster Square of protesters... with no order from court (Evening Standard, link)

See also: Belgian ‘municipal fines’ cause growing dissent (Statewatch database) and: Westminster Council proposes banning "tents and similar structures" and "noise equipment" in crackdown on political protest (Statewatch database)

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