IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

Case No.: KB-2026-001615

IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION AGAINST PERSONS UNKNOWN AND NEWCOMERS;

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 AND THE HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

Before: His Honour Judge Tindal (sitting as a judge of the High Court)

BETWEEN:

(1) THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

(2) THE LORD MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER

Claimants

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1. Persons Unknown who participate between the hours of 6:00pm and 7:00am in a gathering of 2 or more persons within the area the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster set out in Map Exhibit 1 (attached) at which some of those present engage in motor racing or motor stunts or other dangerous or obstructive driving.

2. Persons unknown who participate between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am in a gathering of 2 or more persons within the area the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster set out in Map Exhibit 1 with the intention or expectation that some of those present will engage in motor racing or motor stunts or other dangerous or obstructive driving.

3. Persons Unknown promoting, organising, publicising (by any means whatsoever) any gathering between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am of 2 or more persons with the intention or expectation that some of those present will engage in motor racing or motor stunts or other dangerous or obstructive driving within the area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster set out in Map Exhibit 1.

Defendants

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INTERIM INJUNCTION ORDER

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PENAL NOTICE

IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY WITH THIS ORDER YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT AND IMPRISONED OR FINED OR YOUR ASSETS MAY BE SEIZED

If you do not understand anything in this order, you should go to a Solicitor, Legal Advice Centre or a Citizens Advice Bureau.

Any party can apply to the court for this order to be varied or discharged. But you must obey the order unless it is varied or discharged by the Court.

IF YOU THE WITHIN NAMED PERSONS UNKNOWN DO NOT COMPLY WITH THIS ORDER YOU MAY BE HELD TO BE IN CONTEMPT OF COURT AND IMPRISONED OR FINED, OR YOUR ASSETS MAY BE SEIZED.

ANY OTHER PERSON WHO KNOWS OF THIS ORDER AND DOES ANYTHING WHICH HELPS OR PERMITS THE DEFENDANTS TO BREACH THE TERMS OF THIS ORDER MAY ALSO BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT AND MAY BE IMPRISONED, FINED OR HAVE THEIR ASSETS SEIZED

IMPORTANT:-

NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS

This Order prevents you from doing the acts set out in the Order. You should read it all carefully. You are advised to consult a Solicitor as soon as possible. You have a right to ask the Court to vary or discharge this Order;

BEFORE: His Honour Judge Tindal, sitting as a judge of the High Court, at an attended hearing on 19th June 2026 at 10:30 am;

UPON considering the Claimant’s application for an interim prohibitory injunction against the Defendants pursuant to the Local Government Act 1972, s.222 and the Highways Act 1972, s.130 with a power of arrest, filed without notice;

AND UPON the Court having by order of 16th June 2026 adjourned this matter for the Claimants to take steps to publicise the hearing of this application and for further evidence to be filed about the incidence of ‘car meets’ (as defined in this Injunction) in 2026;

AND UPON the Claimant having alerted those potentially affected by this injunction of this application and hearing date by publishing on the Claimant’s website on 16th June 2026, pursuant to the order made earlier that day: a notice of the date and location of the hearing: the Part 8 Claim Form and Particulars of Claim dated 26th March 2026; the application notice dated 26th March 2026; witness statements and exhibits filed with the application; the draft order; the Claimants’ skeleton argument; and further evidence filed on 16th June 2026;

UPON THE COURT CONSIDERING the above evidence and draft order;

AND UPON THE COURT CONSIDERING it just and convenient, and proportionate, to grant the interim injunction, having regard to the written evidence detailing the past incidence of street cruising and of the beneficial effect of an injunction and power of arrest and the continuing current risk of street-cruising in the Claimant’s local government area in the absence of that injunction and power of arrest;

AND UPON THE COURT BEING SATISFIED for the purposes the Police and Justice Act 2006, s.27(3) that there is a significant risk of harm to a person or persons from the conduct prohibited by this Order, that harm being the risk of personal injury or death from activities prohibited in this order, and that a power of arrest should therefore be granted;

AND UPON HEARING FROM Francis Hoar, counsel for the Claimant, the Defendants not attending or being represented;

IT IS ORDERED THAT

1. IT IS FORBIDDEN for the Defendants to participate in the activities set out in Schedule 2 to this Order (‘the Prohibited Activities’, any one of which are referred to as ‘a Prohibited Activity’) between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am in a gathering of 2 or more persons within the boundaries of the wards of Hyde Park, St James’s, West End, Knightsbridge and Belgravia in the City of Westminster and the Brompton and Hans Town Ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (known as ‘the Relevant Area’), the boundaries of which are delineated in red on a map attached to this Order at Schedule 1;

2. IT IS FORBIDDEN for the Defendants to promote, organise or publicise by any means and manner whatsoever a Prohibited Activity in a gathering of 2 or more persons with the intention or expectation that some of those present in the gathering that is promoted, organised or publicised will engage in a Prohibited Activity w (as delineated at Schedule 1 to this Order);

3. A power of arrest, pursuant to the Police and Justice Act 2006, s.27 shall apply to paragraphs 1 and 2 above, in relation to any person participating in a Prohibited Activity who is the driver of, or a passenger in, any Motor-Vehicle as defined in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 below to which paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 to this Order apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the power of arrest granted by this Order does not apply to any other person participating in a Prohibited Activity within the meaning of Schedule 2 to this Order;

4. Personal service of this injunction is dispensed with pursuant to CPR Rule 81.4(2)(d);

5. Pursuant to CPR rr. 6.1, 6.15, 6.27 and 81.4(2)(d) the Claimant shall be permitted to serve the Claim Form, Application Notice and supporting documents relied on, and this Order and power of arrest, by the alternative methods specified at Schedule 3 to this Order; and the time for serving the Claimant’s Claim Form, Application Notice and supporting documents shall be extended, pursuant to CPR Rule 7.6 until 4 pm pm on 23rd June 2026

6. The deemed date of service of the documents referred to at paragraph 5 above shall be the date of the relevant certificate of service on completion of the steps described in Schedule 3 to this Order, from which date this Injunction and power of arrest shall become effective;

7. This Order and power of arrest shall come into force at 12 noon on 25th June 2026 and thereafter shall remain in force until the Return Date directed in para 9 of this Order unless previously varied or discharged by the Court; and it will come into effect at that time on that day provided that the steps taken to serve the Order set out in Schedule 3 paragraphs 1(i) and (iv) have been completed even if the steps set out in Schedule 3 paragraphs 1(ii), (iii), (v) and (vi) have not been completed but the Claimant must complete those steps (set out in paragraphs 1(ii) (iii), (v) and (vi)) by 4 pm on 3rd July 2026;

8. The Claimant shall, by 4 pm on 27th July 2026, file and publish on its website a witness statement setting out evidence of suspected breaches of this Order and attempts to enforce it;

9. This matter shall be listed for a Return Date on 30th July 2026, or such other date as the Court may direct and the Claimant will then publicise in accordance with Schedule 3 to this order, with a time-estimate of 1 hour, and the following directions shall apply:

(1) Any person claiming to be affected by this Order may file and serve evidence but shall do so not later than 4 pm on 29th July 2026;

(2) Any person claiming to be affected by this Order may appear and make submissions in person or through counsel at the hearing;

10. Any person served with a copy of, or affected by, this Order may apply to the Court to vary or discharge it, on 48 hours’ written notice to the Claimant;

11. The costs in this Application do be reserved to the judge at the return date.

If you do not fully understand this Order you should go to a solicitor, Legal Advice Centre or Citizens’ Advice Bureau.

Name and Address of Claimant’s Solicitor

Anghel Pufulete

Senior Solicitor

Employment, Criminal and Commercial Litigation

Bi-Borough Legal Services

The Town Hall

Hornton Street

London W8 7NX

Telephone: ………….………….

E-mail address: APufule@westminster.gov.uk

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

“Prohibited Activity”

1. “Prohibited Activity” means a gathering of the drivers of two or more Motor-Vehicles (as defined in paragraph 4 below) on the public highway or at any place to which the public have access within the boundaries of the wards of Hyde Park, St James’s, West End, Knightsbridge and Belgravia the City of Westminster and the Brompton and Hans Town Ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (known as ‘the Relevant Area’), the boundaries of which are delineated in red on a map attached to this Order at Schedule 1, at which any person, whether or not a driver, performs any of the activities set out at para.2 below, so as, by such conduct, to cause any of the following:

(i) excessive noise;

(ii) danger to other road users (including pedestrians);

(iii) damage or the risk of damage to private property;

(iv) any nuisance to another person not participating in the Car-Cruise.

2. The activities referred to at para.1, above, are:

(i) driving at excessive speed, or otherwise dangerously;

(ii) driving in convoy;

(iii) racing against other motor vehicles;

(iv) performing stunts in motor vehicles;

(v) sounding horns or playing amplified music;

(vi) revving engines;

(vii) obstructing any other road-user.

“Participating in a Prohibited Activity”

3. A person participates in a Prohibited Activity whether or not he or she is the driver of, or passenger in, a Motor-Vehicle (as defined in paragraph 4 below), if he or she is present and performs or encourages any other person to perform any activity, to which paras.1-2 above apply, and the term “participating in a Prohibited Activity” shall be interpreted accordingly.

“Motor vehicle”

4. In this Order, the term “motor vehicle” means any vehicle on wheels, having its own motor for use on streets or public highways or at any place to which the public have access within the Restricted Area.

SCHEDULE 3

1. Service of the proceedings and this Order shall be effected by:

(i) Issuing a media release stating that the High Court has issued this Injunction and Power of Arrest. Such release must:

(a) Summarise this Order and attached power of arrest;

(b) Provide the addresses of the dedicated webpages maintained by the Claimants regarding street-cruising;

(c) Provide the Claimants’ contact details; and

(d) Provide details of where and how copies of the documents and evidence filed in the case may be obtained;

Such release shall be made to local print publications, local radio stations and the following television stations: BBC London and ITV;

(ii) Maintaining signs informing people of this Order and the area in which it has effect in prominent locations and particularly at its boundaries on major roads (in general accordance with the plan attached herewith) and the areas where Prohibited Activities have been prevalent in the Relevant Area;

(iii) Ensuring that the details of the Injunction and power of arrest are clearly publicised in a newspaper(s) circulating in the Claimant’s area;

(iv) Posting a copy of the Order and power of arrest, together with the Claim Form, Application Notice and supporting documents relied on, on dedicated web-page on each of its websites, and publicising them using the Claimants’ accounts on Facebook, X, Instagram account, and requesting that local police publicise them via their Facebook, Instagram and X accounts; and ensuring that the home (or landing) page of the Claimants’ websites have and retain a prominent direct link to the dedicated webpages referred to;

(v) Ensuring that hard copies of this Order and the power of arrest can be made available at the front desks of the Claimants’ main offices upon request; Taking all reasonable steps to secure the publication of the Order and power of arrest, and/or information about where they and the documents referred to at (iii) above can be obtained, on other relevant social media sites and in motoring and other publications likely to be read by some of the participants and/or in any other like manner as appears to the Claimant to be likely to bring the proceedings and this Order to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it.

2. If the Claimant takes enforcement proceedings against any person in respect of this Order, the Claimant shall, if so directed by the Court, serve on that person:

(i) A copy of the Claim Form, Application Notice, witness statements, exhibits and all supporting documents relied on to obtain the Injunction Application and this Order; and

(ii) A copy of this Order and power of arrest.

3. The Claimant shall not, however, be required to disclose to the person served the names or addresses of any individual member of the public whose details appear in the evidence served in accordance with this paragraph; and the question of the anonymity of the said complainant shall be reviewed by the Court at which the person served appears if the Claimant applies to commit him or her for contempt of court through breaching this Order.

4. The Court will consider whether to join the person served to the proceedings as a named Defendant and whether to make any further Order.

Date: 24th June 2026