Energy giant INEOS’ injunction calls them “persons unknown”. But they are builders, farmers, pensioners and beekeepers, writes Rebecca Winson, an organiser at the New Economics Foundation.
Up and down the country, there are people who so terrify the multinational chemicals giant Ineos that it went to court to take out an injunction against them, without even knowing their names.
Addressed to “persons unknown”, the injunction prohibits these people – or anyone who “helps” them – from “pursuing any course of conduct, with a view to compelling another person to abstain from doing or to do any act which that person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing”, under pain of imprisonment, fines or seizure of assets.
