Chris Minns was warned anti-protest laws shouldn’t be passed in an atmosphere of panic. The supreme court has struck them down

‘Criminal justice questions demand a considered and long-term response. It’s time for Minns to stop threatening tougher penalties and do the harder, more nuanced policy work.’ Photograph: Bianca De Marchi/AAP

There is a lesson for Chris Minns in the NSW supreme court’s declaration that police powers to deal with protesters near places of worship are invalid: laws curtailing civil liberties should never be rushed.

They should certainly not be pushed through in an atmosphere of panic and incomplete facts such as existed in the fevered days after the now notorious Dural caravan incident.