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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Yvette Cooper could abandon law that criminalised peaceful protests

Yvette Cooper outside Downing Street
Yvette Cooper. Liberty will talk to the Home Office to ‘find a resolution’. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Yvette Cooper could abandon a law that has seen hundreds of people criminalised for carrying out peaceful protests.

An attempt to overturn a high court judgment that the previous Conservative home secretary acted unlawfully has been adjourned to allow the civil liberties group Liberty and ministers to open talks about the future of the contentious legislation.

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