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Court of Appeal: Civil standard applies to PCA 2009 gang and ASBCPA 2014 ASB injunctions; Article 6 ECHR does not require criminal standard (England and Wales)

Published on: 06 June 2018

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Jones v Birmingham City Council [2018] EWCA Civ 1189, [2018] All ER (D) 129 (May)

What are the practical implications of the judgment?

There has long been debate over whether the civil standard required to obtain a gang injunction accords with Article 6 ECHR. The decision in Jones resolves that, for now, by stating unequivocally that proceedings under PCA 2009 Part 4 and ASBCPA 2014 Part 1 do not determine a criminal charge within the meaning of Article 6(1) ECHR, and that the fair trial guarantees in Article 6 more generally do not demand application of the criminal standard of proof. In essence, relying on the civil threshold to secure these injunctions is compatible with Article 6 ECHR, and practitioners may proceed on that footing unless and until the Supreme Court or the European Court of Human Rights decides otherwise.

What was the background?

Gang-related violence has been a persistent issue across many cities and is notoriously difficult to tackle. As Leveson LJ explained: ‘It may flow from drug dealing but is not unusually accompanied by...

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