HS2 wins High Court injunction to block protestors

The High Court has granted HS2 an injunction to block activists from carrying out disruptive protests on land along the entire phase one route.
The injunction makes it a criminal offence for anyone to enter ‘HS2 land’ or delay its construction operations.
The anticipatory injunction will protect construction works against nearly 60 named defendants as well as ‘persons unknown’.
Justice Julian Knowles accepted that “massive tracts of land” were potentially aff