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REPORT SUMMARY
1 INTRODUCTION
Our inquiry
Structure of our Report
2 HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST
Human rights principles
Who is protected?
Positive and negative obligations
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Related rights
Existing legal regime
Public order: general principles
Protests or demonstrations at specified sites, including Parliament
Stop and search powers
Injunctions
Common law
3 HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
Issues
Imposing conditions
Use of other police powers
Numbers and attitudes of police and protestors
Public and private space
Facilitating protest
Protecting the rights of the targets
Legitimate grounds for interfering with protests
Conclusion
4 LEGAL REFORM: GENERAL
Public Order Act
Counter-terrorism powers
Protest in designated areas under SOCPA
Cyber protest
5 LEGAL REFORM: PROTEST AROUND PARLIAMENT
Background
SOCPA in practice
Current proposals
Our recommendations
Advance notification of protests
Access
Noise
Long-term protest
Supplementing the Public Order Act
Amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill
6 OPERATIONAL POLICING: HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLICING OF PROTEST
Understanding of human rights by the police
Police training and accountability
Good practice
Lessons from Northern Ireland
Dialogue and prior notification of protests
Style of policing
Tasers
Police relations with journalists
7 CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
FORMAL MINUTES
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF UNPRINTED EVIDENCE
LIST OF REPORTS FROM THE COMMITTEE DURING THE CURRENT PARLIAMENT MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 47-II/HC 320-II) Tuesday 24 June 2008 Tuesday 21 October 2008 Tuesday 25 November 2008 Tuesday 9 December 2008 WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 47-II/HC 320-II)