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By Jemma Slingo2020-12-16T11:34:00+00:00
A barrister is to be referred to the attorney general for contempt of court after he leaked the Supreme Court’s decision about Heathrow’s third runway a day before judgment was delivered.
Tim Crosland, a barrister and director of eco-charity Plan B Earth, said he broke the court’s embargo as ‘an act of civil disobedience’. In a statement published yesterday, he said the leak ‘will be treated as a “contempt of court” and I am ready to face the consequences. I have no choice but to protest the deep immorality of the court’s ruling’.