TfL wins court order to restrict Just Stop Oil protests

TRANSPORT for London has won a court order that will restrict the ability of Just Stop Oil protesters causing chaos on the capital’s main roads.

It came hours after activists blocked the A4 at Barons Court Tube station for two hours on Tuesday morning in their ongoing campaign demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas licences.

But the campaign group said it would not change its tactics, saying: “We will not be stopped by injunctions sought to silence non-violent people.”

Two Just Stop Oil supporters who scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford early on Monday morning agreed to come down late on Tuesday and were arrested.

The TfL injunction was approved by the High Court after the mayor was involved in a meeting with Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Cabinet Office minister Nadhim Zahawi and the Metropolitan police on Sunday to discuss the disruption being caused by the eco protesters.

Just Stop Oil has threatened protests every day in October. Police have already made more than 470 arrests.

The injunction will make it easier for police to take pre-emptive action against protesters and to secure jail sentences.