We are Britain’s biggest customer of UK farming and, as we have said before, we sympathise with the position of UK farmers and we support your concerns. However, we also need to ensure that we protect our business and the integrity of the food supply chain, for all our customers, throughout the UK.
Given the protests experienced recently and the serious threat of immediate further action, we’ve had to take the difficult decision to seek a High Court injunction to restrain unlawful protest action aimed at preventing us from operating from our sites referenced in the Injunction Order. However, please know that we remain committed to continuing to work with all our farming network on the issues that matter most to you.
On 16 January 2025, the High Court granted us an injunction, which prohibits anyone from :
- entering or remaining upon any part of the land shown coloured blue on the Plans attached to the Injunction Order without our consent; and
- creating or causing blockades, obstructions of traffic and/or otherwise impeding, preventing or interfering with the passage by us our agents, servants, employees, licensees, invitees to, from, with or without vehicles, including tractors or other agricultural vehicles and equipment, over and across the said access roads (shown coloured pink on the Plans attached to the Injunction Order).
Anyone who contravenes the terms of the Injunction Order may be in contempt of Court and sent to prison, fined or have their assets seized.
Click on the links below to download the documents.
• Injunction Order (6.2mb)
• Injunction Order dated 16.01.25 (amended on 20.01.25 pursuant to CPR r40.12) (2.8mb)
• Application Notice (578kb)
• Plans to Claim Form (14.7mb)
• Sealed Application Notice (622kb)
• Certificate of Urgency (284kb)
• Sealed Claim Form (5.2mb)
• Sealed Amended Claim Form (9.7mb)
• Witness Statement - Joanna Louise Goff (112kb)
• Witness Statement - A. J. Todd (7.3mb)
• AT1 Bundle (592.1mb)
• Exhibit AT2 to Andrew Todd Witness Statement (28.2mb)
• Exhibit AT3 to Andrew Todd Witness Statement (37mb)
• Witness Statement of Scott Roberts (487kb)
• Exhibit to Witness Statement of Scott Roberts (7.1mb)
• Witness Statement of Sophie Throup (160kb)
• Exhibit to Witness Statement of Sophie Throup (308kb)
• Draft Orders (894kb)
• Skeleton Argument (10.1mb)
• Note of Injunction Hearing (198kb)
• Second Witness Statement of Andrew Todd
• Exhibits to Second Witness Statement of Andrew Todd (AJT4)
• Third Witness Statement of Andrew Todd
• Skeleton Argument for Hearing on 20 January 2025
• Draft Order for Hearing on 20 January 2025
• Court Order dated 20.01.25
• Sealed Order of Fordham J dated 21.01.25 (1.4mb)
• Note of Hearing 20.01.25 (172kb)
• Sealed Re-Amended Claim Form (4.8mb)
• Sealed Order of Fordham J dated 21.01.25 (amended on 24 January 2025)
• Skeleton Argument for Hearing on 28 January 2025 (275kb)
• Exhibit SR2 (15.4mb)
• Exhibit AJT5 (15.7mb)
• Fourth Witness Statement of Andrew Todd (2.3mb)
• Second Witness Statement of Scott Roberts (2.5mb)
• Sealed Order of HHJ Tindal dated 29.01.25 (2.5mb)
• Note of Hearing 29.01.2025 (137kb)
• Fifth Witness Statement of Andrew Todd - 6 February (726kb)
• Exhibit AJT6 (549kb)