KB-2025-000497 - [2025] EWHC 2330 (KB)

On 23 July 2025 I heard the application of the Claimant (the ‘University’) for summary judgment for final injunctive relief to restrain threatened acts of trespass and nuisance by the Defendants on three sites owned and/or occupied by the University. At the end of the hearing, I indicated that I would grant summary judgment and would make an order for final injunctive relief, and that I would give reasons in due course. These are those reasons. For convenience I annex to this judgment the Order which I made following the hearing on 23 July 2025.

As I will explain in more detail below, a short-term interim injunction in relation to Senate House and Senate House Yard was granted by Fordham J on 27 February 2025. After a further hearing on 19-21 March 2025 a wider interim injunction was granted by Soole J until 26 July 2025. Soole J’s judgment is [2025] EWHC 724 (KB) (‘the Soole Judgment’). The application before me on 23 July 2025 was for a final injunction in essentially the same terms, save as to duration and save as regards the third of the sites (described below), as that granted by Soole J.

The three sites in respect of which the injunction was sought before me were shown on three Plans shown to the court, and which are scheduled to the Order I made. The first comprises the Senate House and Senate House Yard, Trinity Street, Cambridge, and the Old Schools, Trinity Lane, Cambridge. The second comprises Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, an administrative office building accommodating some 500 of the University’s employees. The third, which was not the subject of the order of Soole J, comprises Chestnut Tree Lawn, Trinity Street, Cambridge. This is a small area of grassland, accessible by the opening of double gates from Senate House Yard. In this judgment, where I refer to ‘the Land’ it is to these three sites together.