HS2 sites protected by controversial High Court decision

The High Court has granted an ‘extensive’ injunction to HS2 Ltd, which will make disrupting construction work or entering worksites without permission a potential contempt of court, for which jail sentences can be given. Memories are still fresh of a major protest in and under Euston Square Gardens in London at the start of last year, which is also an HS2 worksite. Tunnellers under the gardens were eventually ‘dragged out’ after several weeks of resistance. The new injunction applies over the length of HS2, and the court had to consider more than 8,000 pages of evidence.