motion_title: New Clause 4: Public Order Bill
motion_text: New Clause 4 - Injunction to prevent serious disruption to effective movement of essential goods or services
  “(1) Upon an application by a person under subsection (4), an injunction may be ordered by a Judge of the High Court against ‘persons unknown’ in order to prevent a serious disruption to the effective movement of any essential goods or any essential services occasioned by a public procession or public assembly.
  (2) The “persons unknown” may be—
  (a) anonymous persons taking part in a public process or public assembly who are identifiable at the time of the proceedings; and/or
  (b) persons not presently taking part in a public procession or public assembly protest but who will in future join such a public procession or public assembly.
  (3) The conditions under which such an injunction may be granted are as follows—
  (a) there must be a real and imminent risk of a tort being committed which would result in a serious disruption to the effective movement of any essential goods or any essential services;
  (b) a method of service must be set out in the order which may reasonably be expected to bring the proceedings to the attention of the “persons unknown”;
  (c) the “persons unknown” must be defined in the order by reference to their conduct which is alleged to be unlawful;
  (d) the acts prohibited by the order must correspond with the threatened tort;
  (e) the order may only prohibit lawful conduct if there is no other proportionate means of protecting the effective movement of essential goods or essential services;
  (f) the terms of the order must set out what act(s) the persons potentially affected by the order must not do;
  (g) the terms of the order must set out a defined geographical area to which the order relates; and
  (h) the terms of the order must set out a temporal period to which the order relates, following which the order will lapse unless a further order is made upon a further application by the applicant.
  (4) An applicant for an injunction to prevent serious disruption to effective movement of essential goods or services may be—
  (a) a local authority with responsibility for all or part of the geographical area to which the proposed order relates;
  (b) a chief constable with responsibility for all or part of the geographical area to which the proposed order relates; or
  (c) a person resident in, or carrying on a business within, the geographical area to which the proposed order relates.
  (5) A “serious disruption to effective movement of essential goods or services” includes a prolonged disruption to—
  (a) the effective movement of the supply of money, food, water, energy or fuel;
  (b) a system of communication;
  (c) access to a place of worship;
  (d) access to a transport facility;
  (e) access to an educational institution; and
  (f) access to a service relating to health.”—(Sarah Jones.)