R v Smith (Joshua) — [2025] 2 WLR 215

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R v Smith (Joshua) — [2025] 2 WLR 215

NUISANCE — Public nuisance — Statutory offence — Defendant protestors entering race track at Silverstone and disrupting British Grand Prix — Defendants charged with causing public nuisance — Whether defendants creating risk of serious harm to “section of the public” — Meaning of “section of the public” — Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32), s 78