Court: British law doesn't stop protest

LONDON, July 30 (UPI) -- A British law intended to end a four-year-long protest outside the Houses of Parliament was not specific enough the high court ruled.

The 2005 Serious Organized Crime and Police Act aimed at ending Brian Haw's one-man anti-war protest stated that as of Aug. 1 anyone wanting to demonstrate outside of Parliament needed to get police authorization when it started.

Haw began his round-the-clock protest against war in June 2001 and therefore didn't have to get authorization.

The court said if the government wanted to end Haw's protest they needed to create a law specifically doing so.