5G protesters to pursue hearing following High Court judicial review permission refusal

An anti-5G campaign group that had its judicial review application refused has announced plans to continue pursuing its legal options.

Lawyers representing the group, which is named Action Against 5G, have lodged a Renewal Notice seeking permission for a hearing.

The case is being brought against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

"The Defendants were presented with evidence which it is their duty to consider – and have failed to do so," an update on the group's CrowdJustice page reads.

The group, which has raised over £160,000 on CrowdJustice to pursue its legal challenge, said that the government installed 5G "without an adequate and proper consideration undertaken by the relevant safeguarding authorities" of the technology's health risks.

The claimants advanced multiple grounds of argument, which included claims of breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Public Sector Equality Duty, and the National Health Service Act 2006.

According to a report by the BBC, High Court judge Mrs Justice Foster blocked the judicial review application as she agreed that the defendants had set out their "rational, scientifically based" view that there is nothing fundamentally different about the physical characteristics of the radio signals produced by 5G compared to those produced by 3G and 4G.

Mrs Justice Foster also said that the case had been brought out of time.

The technology was installed in parts of the UK in 2019, two years after the government announced its 5G strategy, 'Next Generation Mobile Technologies', in March 2017.

Michael Mansfield QC and barristers Philip Rule and Lorna Hackett are representing Action Against 5g.

Adam Carey