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So all it takes is a little rightwing shit-stirring and the courts surrender.
But a few hundred thousand people protesting a genocide are completely ignored.
Not really. This is why I linked the judgement. The judge writes in detail are what aspects of, and to what extent, lawful protest and unlawful actions can be relevant to such a decision, and he says it is of low weight.
The factors to which he ascribes a high weight are that:
Having read it, it still sounds insane. The risk if interim relief were not granted but the changes at the hotel turn out to require planning permission with respect to those three factors are that the breach goes on for a bit longer. The risk if it were granted but the changes turn out to be lawful is that over a hundred people are turfed out, the government has to find a yet-more expensive way of accommodating them, something which may be impossible if the relevant factors of this case become precedent in others.
That's really informative, thanks. I agree with your assessment.