Recommendation 4

While a single person will not be exercising their right of free assembly when protesting, they will still receive protection for their freedom of speech under Article 10 ECHR. All of the concerns set out above in respect of the proportionality of imposing conditions on processions and assemblies based on noise apply equally to this unprecedented power to impose conditions on one-person protests—with the addition that a single protester has less ability to produce seriously disruptive noise than a large assembly or procession. Clause 60 should also be removed from the Bill. (Paragraph 64) Other changes to the law governing processions and assemblies