{"id":666,"date":"2008-11-27T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2008-12-02T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:28:21","slug":"critical-mass-cycle-rides-lawful-law-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Critical Mass&#8221; cycle rides lawful &#8211; Law Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCritical Mass\u201d rides are monthly events in which cyclists have taken to the  streets in London on the last Friday of every month since April 1994, in  celebration of safe cycling.<\/p>\n<p>The police view was (expressed on a leaflet handed out to the cyclists)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These cycle protests are not lawful because no organiser has provided police  with the necessary notification. Your participation in this event could render  you liable to prosecution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lord Phillips said the Green and White Papers which led to the 1986 Public  Order Act were at pains to underline the importance of the right to hold  processions and the need for any restrictions to respect that right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is inconceivable that Parliament could have intended, by a sidewind, to  outlaw events such as Critical Mass,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is expected the events will now continue.<\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/Action\/critical.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCritical Mass\u201d rides are monthly events in which cyclists have taken to the streets in London on the last Friday of every month since April 1994, in celebration of safe cycling. The police view was (expressed on a leaflet handed out to the cyclists) &#8220;These cycle protests are not lawful because no organiser has provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}