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Just Stop Oil activists acted ‘out of sacrifice’, court hears

Danny Friedman KC, one of several lawyers representing the group, said some of the sentences were “the highest of their kind in modern British history”.

He said that if the terms were allowed to stand, it would mark a “paradigm shift in this area of criminal law sentencing”.

The court was told the protesters “acted in the knowledge that they would be prosecuted”, but “none of the applicants acted out of self-interest”.

Mr Friedman said: “What these applicants did by way of collective, non-violent protest, whether one likes it or not, was for the interests of the public, of the planet, and of future generations.”

“They did what they did out of sacrifice,” he added.


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