The Weekly Law Reports
[2017] 4 WLR 185
Family Division
Southend Borough Council
v
O and another
[2017] EWHC 1949 (Fam)
2017 July 6; 28
MacDonald J
Human rights— Respect for private and family life— Interference with— Parents dissatisfied with outcome of care proceedings publishing online petition to obtain redress from Parliament— Local authority applying under inherent jurisdiction for injunction to remove petition to protect children— Whether children’s Convention right to respect for private life outweighing parents’ right to freedom of expression— Whether information taking form of online petition significant— Whether injunction to be granted—
Bill of Rights 1689 (1 Will & Mary, sess 2, c 2)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 10, 11
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