London University Granted High Court Order to Clear Pro-Palestinian Protest Camps

University College London is the latest higher education institution to secure possession orders enabling them to evict activists from their campuses. University College London (UCL) has won a High Court order to take back control of parts of its campus which had been occupied by pro-Palestinian protest camps since May. UCL had taken legal action over the “unauthorised occupational encampment” on its main estate, arguing that activists were protesting on private property. Judge Francesca Kaye granted UCL the order at a hearing on Tuesday, concluding that the protesters had “no...