A remarkable day in court yesterday

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday. Your support in person meant a lot to me.

After more than two hours of legal arguments, Justice Holgate made his judgment against us and I immediately went out to go the toilet. I got lost in the huge court building and came back 10 minutes later to find to my surprise that the hearing was still ongoing. These are the notes that I took on my computer during my return

“Fourth option is a new hearing

Says Judge

I did ask question when did it go before members.

“Case is all officers report and whether members misled”

“Coming to view that it should be re-argued” says Judge

Judge: “You are missing point”

Overriding Objective

IP says should be reheard!!!!

Judge says “highly unusual”

Adjourn hearing until 1pm this Monday”

Recording a High Court hearing is banned, this seems wrong to me as it is an obstacle to accurate reporting of what is said in court. So the notes in bold above are the best I can do for now, I might order a transcript of what was said, but I expect that will be expensive.

After barristers being involved for months, John Hunter, our new barrister, wrote a supplementary skeleton for the hearing on the 16^th December focusing on the proposed primary school at the site. Redbridge did not submit anything in response, but Celina Colquhoun, the Weston barrister did make a response which included a reference to the GLA stage 2 report.

How the Judge understood these arguments is why the hearing will start again on Monday. 

I will report back on Monday when I have a decision from the Judge. I am asking supporters not to attend on Monday. This is because as both the Judge and Celina Colquhoun want a re-hearing that seems the most likely thing to happen.