"There is no reference to cumulative disruption in the original [legislation]. The regulations that introduced this concept were quashed in May 2025, so I fail to see how this can still be the approach taken by police. There is no legal basis for this whatsoever."
"The problem is zero police accountability and transparency in the use of their powers to restrict or limit protests."
"The police have too many protest powers already and they definitely don't need any more. If they are provided with them they not only use them [but] as in this case, they stretch them. They go beyond what was intended."
The Metropolitan police imposed restrictions on at least two pro-Palestine protests based on cumulative disruption after the court of appeal quashed the power to do so in May 2025. The Home Office and the Met asserted that officers can still take cumulative disruption into account despite removal of that concept from the legislation. Several legal experts rejected that assertion and described the practice as lacking legal basis. Campaigners warned of zero police accountability and transparency in applying protest-restricting powers. The home secretary proposed reintroducing the cumulative-impact power in strengthened form via the crime and policing bill.
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