London’s criminal courts have been weighed down in recent years with a deluge of cases involving protesters – slow marching, sitting in the road, glueing hands to the tarmac, being generally obstructive to the police.
It’s a form of protest that certain groups have boiled down to an art form – performing an act of disobedience which provokes an arrest and then grinding their way through the criminal justice system over the course of months, if not years.
