The latest amendments to the protest provisions of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Martin, Richard Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-12-29 eng

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The right to peaceful protest in England and Wales is under graver threat than first feared. On 24 November 2021, new amendments were introduced to the already highly controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) in the House of Lords. These are jaw-dropping measures that will expand police stop and search powers, increase restrictions on peaceful protests, create new criminal offences and banning orders, and expand delegated powers. What follows is a brief attempt to make sense of these illiberal proposals. If enacted, they will have severe implications for how the law strikes the balance between rights of protestors and the wider community. But even if not, their very proposal, and the means of legislating for them, are further evidence of a government with distaste, if not hostility, for constitutional norms of debate, scrutiny, and accountability inside and outside of Parliament. CC BY-SA 4.0 Martin, Richard funded by the government Boris Johnson freedom of assembly Priti Patel Right to Protest 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/illiberal-britain/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20211229-205154-0 211229 10.17176/20211229-205154-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)