Environmental campaigner faces jail for leaking Heathrow judgment

An environmental lawyer who leaked the Supreme Court’s ruling that the expansion of Heathrow was lawful now faces a possible two-year prison sentence after the government’s legal advisors this week initiated contempt of court proceedings against him.

by Conor McGlone
Supreme Court: judgment in December overturned a ruling from the Court of Appeal (Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/Getty Images)
Supreme Court: judgment in December overturned a ruling from the Court of Appeal (Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/Getty Images)

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