THE government is being taken to court over “unlawful” anti-protest legislation by human rights group Liberty.

The group has accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of an “overreach of her power” after she pushed ahead with legislation to restrict lawful protest.

Police already have powers to act if they judge a protest to risk “serious disruption,” but the Tory government has sought to lower the bar for that judgement – attempts which were voted down in Parliament in January.