The University of Oxford is seeking a permanent exclusion zone around its animal research laboratory, which opened last week, reports The Independent. A temporary injunction already in place restricts people from demonstrating within a certain radius of its Biomedical Sciences Building but the university wants to make this permanent at a court hearing scheduled for next year.

Demonstrations and the intimidation of contractors and staff by animal rights activists delayed the building's completion by about two years and although the university said that it does not yet have a figure for the lab's final cost it is believed that the total sum far exceeds the published figure of £18m. As well as restricting demonstrations near the laboratory, the injunction prohibits picketing or demonstrating within 100 yards of the residence of any protected person, and bans people from identifying or following vehicles entering or leaving the exclusion zone.
Full report on The Independent site


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