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Article bookmarked Don't show me this message again✕ Tim Crosland speaks to media outside the Royal Courts of Justice, ahead of his hearing for contempt of court (PA) Aclimate campaigner facing jail for breaking an embargo on Heathrow airport court ruling has said prison would be “a tiny price to pay to get the truth out” Tim Crosland, the director of environmental campaigning organisation Plan B Earth, is facing an application from the attorney general to the Supreme Court to be held in contempt of court, which is punishable by up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine.

By Press Association 2021 Tim Crosland A lawyer and climate campaigner has accused the Supreme Court of continuing a “systemic campaign of suppression” of the environmental impact of Heathrow’s expansion, after he was fined £5,000 for contempt of court. Tim Crosland, director of environmental campaign group Plan B Earth, was found in contempt for revealing the Supreme Court’s decision on Heathrow’s third runway a day before it was made public in December. The 51-year-old lawyer, from Elephant and Castle in south London, previo...

Heathrow environmental lawyer found in contempt by Supreme Court Tim Crosland has been found in contempt of court for deliberately leaking a Supreme Court judgment following an application made by the Attorney General, Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP. From: 10 May 2021 Tim Crosland has been found in contempt of court for deliberately leaking a Supreme Court judgment following an application made by the Attorney General, Rt Hon Michael Ellis QC MP. Mr Crosland, an environmental lawyer and a director of the climate change charity Plan B Earth, represented the charity in a case heard at the S...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In its recent decision in R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd and others) v Heathrow Airport Ltd, the Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal's decision that the planned expansion of Heathrow Airport was unlawful on climate change grounds, and determined that the UK Government had taken proper account of the UK's climate change commitments. Background Heathrow Airport") longstanding plans to develop a third runway through the Airports National Policy Statement (" ANPS"), which had been designated by the Secretary of...

By Jemma Slingo2021-01-07T13:05:00+00:00 The attorney general has begun an investigation into the barrister who broke the embargo on the Supreme Court’s ruling on Heathrow Airport last month. Tim Crosland, a barrister and director of eco-charity Plan B Earth, has seven days to provide representations to law officers in the attorney general’s office. Plan B Earth is also being investigated for contempt of court. Crosland, who represented Plan B Earth in Heathrow’s Supreme Court appeal, said he leaked the judgment about the third runway as an act of ‘civil disobedience’. If found t...