The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69707 Message #1184806
Posted By: The Shambles
13-May-04 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Update on Palm Sesh
Subject: RE: Update on Palm Sesh
You don't say how long it had been running? I think if you licensee is agreeable, it would not be a bad idea to at least stand your ground for a while and see how far the officers intend to take it, and approach your councillors in the meantime. It is local election time again, remember.
The other idea is to go on the offensive yourselves, independant of the licensee. Acticle 10 gives the public the right of freedom of expresion and spells out the grounds by which the local authority can legally prevent this. To do this, they would have to prove that the Palm session presented a specific safety concern that could not be addressed by means of the justice's licence. Any idea what this could be? No harm in you asking them.......
I if you have you any regular particpants who would qualify for full legal aid, this might be a real option for you to consider. It would most probably scare the pants off of the council, if it looked as if facing a serious legal challenge on these grounds were possible.
So far the HRA seems only to have been much use to the very rich, like Maddona, or penniless new age travellers who can get full legal aid.