> In March 2021, a judge changed the order meaning the group could return to the square near a junction between Harrow Road, Westbourne Park and Maida Vale. But the group could have been jailed if they were caught “playing loud amplified music, drinking alcohol, shouting or swearing”.
> However, the 74-year-old took the council to court, saying its order was racist as it discriminated against Caribbean culture. “If you are West Indian, you just can’t play dominoes without making a bit of noise,” Theophile said
> On Friday, Judge Heather Baucher, presiding at central London county court, ruled that Westminster council was wrong to not take equality into consideration when taking out the injunction.
This isn’t the Caribbean, and what can ‘equality’ have to do with this when Mr. Theophile clearly bases his case on his inequality, as a West Indian, with English people (who, we must suppose, can play dominoes without shouting)?
Anyway, I think if we don’t want “loud amplified music, drinking alcohol, shouting or swearing” in our streets, whether that is a “racist” desire or not is neither here nor there.
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How this topic went the other week: https://archive.ph/GDnvm
But Britain is not racist right? 😡
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this issue I struggle to see how race comes into it
He hasn’t “won his case”.
He has succeeded on the specific question of whether the public sector equality duty applies to the council’s application for an injunction.
[*Lord Mayor and Citizens of the City of Westminster v Persons unknown*](https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/City-of-Westminster-PSED-Judgment.pdf) (County Court at Central London, 13 May 2022, HHJ Baucher).
> In March 2021, a judge changed the order meaning the group could return to the square near a junction between Harrow Road, Westbourne Park and Maida Vale. But the group could have been jailed if they were caught “playing loud amplified music, drinking alcohol, shouting or swearing”.
> However, the 74-year-old took the council to court, saying its order was racist as it discriminated against Caribbean culture. “If you are West Indian, you just can’t play dominoes without making a bit of noise,” Theophile said
> On Friday, Judge Heather Baucher, presiding at central London county court, ruled that Westminster council was wrong to not take equality into consideration when taking out the injunction.
This isn’t the Caribbean, and what can ‘equality’ have to do with this when Mr. Theophile clearly bases his case on his inequality, as a West Indian, with English people (who, we must suppose, can play dominoes without shouting)?
Anyway, I think if we don’t want “loud amplified music, drinking alcohol, shouting or swearing” in our streets, whether that is a “racist” desire or not is neither here nor there.