4:16pm Tuesday 7th August 2007
By Sara Dixon
THE High Court has upheld a ruling that restrictions placed on Brian Haw's peace camp are unlawful after police unsuccessfully appealed against an earlier court decision.
The Director of Public Prosecutions challenged a district judge's judgement that conditions imposed on Mr Haw's peace encampment in Parliament Square were so unclear as to be unworkable and a breach of his human rights.
But while Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, sitting with Mr Justice Griffith Williams, dismissed the appeal he warned Mr Haw that he could find his protest severely restricted if he does not co-operate with police in the future.
Mr Haw, a former Woodford Green resident, has kept a constant vigil in Parliament Square since June 2001 and when the war in Iraq started he became a focal point in the anti-war movement and has been subject to repeated attempts to move him from outside Parliament.
In May 2006 police took away many of his protest banners created by Mr Haw and his supporters spending £110,000 in their efforts to scale down Mr Haw's Westminster encampment.
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