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Civil Disobedience: A Sign for Jonah
Author(s) -
Eggleston Barbara,
Finn Richard
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.1989.tb04641.x
Subject(s) - civil disobedience , sign (mathematics) , political science , law , mathematics , mathematical analysis , politics
The authors were tried on 9 January at Banbury Magistrates Court for alleged offences committed during a CND demonstration at a base where nuclear‐armed bombers are on constant alert. Though they were fined for trespass and breaking a by‐law, they were found not guilty of criminal damage. Brother Richard's counsel, Dr John Finnis, Praelector in Jurisprudence in Oxford University, had submitted (substantially on case law) that they had ‘lawful excuse’ for their actions. The Crown Prosecution Service will almost certainly try to get the Court's important decision reversed. This is the text of the defendants' own last words to the Court.