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The campaign group Stop Hinkley and other anti-nuclear campaigning organisations won a victory in the High Court today when a legal action against them by EDF Energy was thrown out by the Judge, Mr Justice Floyd.
EDF wanted to ban Stop Hinkley not only from entering its land at Hinkley Point, where it plans two new nuclear power plants, but from encouraging anybody else to do so.
The injunction was rejected by the Judge on the basis that there was no evidence that the campaign and other organisations intended to encourage illegal activity.
“This is a victory for free speech,” said Stop Hinkley spokesman Crispin Aubrey, ” and our right to publicise events in opposition to the Hinkley C development on our website”.
Earlier the Judge did grant a possession order to EDF to reclaim Langborough Farm, a deserted building on the proposed Hinkley C site which has been occupied by protesters for the past two weeks.
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