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Thanet District Council ditches PSPO including fines for swearing amid legal threat that new rules could ‘breach free speech’

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But the local authority has now revoked its new Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) after the Free Speech Union (FSU) threatened to make it the subject of a judicial review battle in the High Court, after cabinet members met to discuss the issue tonight.
The FSU opposed the council’s new order on the grounds it could prevent a person’s right to protest peacefully due to “too vague and too broad” parameters about how they could express discontent.

James Pallant, Kent Online, 22nd August 2024.

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