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Sheffield city council has accused them of contempt of court, by breaking the injunction it served to prevent them from obstructing the felling of the trees they love.
Students have vowed to protest on campus in reaction to the order but if they are found to be breaking the injunction they could face fines, seizure of assets and imprisonment for contempt of court.
It is unclear whether Uber will cover any fines incurred for drivers breaking the injunction, or whether the drivers themselves will be left to pay any penalties out of their own pocket.
This included not just people breaking the injunction (a form of civil disobedience some were practicing), but also people not breaking the injunction.
"Activists are placing giant polar bear paw prints onto Shell's building, and in doing so are breaking the injunction.
Justice Males's occasion for this ruling was even more shocking: the council had tried to imprison an opposition councilor, Alison Teal, for breaking the injunction, hiring a QC for £70,000 of public money.
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Another protestor, Calvin Payne, was found guilty of inciting others to break the injunction and will be sentenced later.
It said: "We are seeing the spread of 'injunction busting' - particularly on social media - where the public, especially outside this jurisdiction, deliberately break the injunction".
The judge will decide next week how to punish Payne and will rule on whether he broke the injunction by entering one of the safety zones.
Two of the defendants in court on Tuesday – Brooke and Crump – had previously avoided legal sanctions after promising a judge they would not break the injunction.
Apparently I broke the injunction by allowing a public exhibition featuring the Arctic 30 to be erected outside their HQ in London.
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