Judgment in the long-awaited SJC10 case was handed down on 24 January 2018. This case marks a victory for the collective bane on civil society – that of the criminalisation of a convener of a protest for the failure to provide notice. It goes a long way to opening the space for more serious engagement on the legitimacy of the Regulation of Gatherings Act 1993 and its possible reformulation to give effect to section 17 of the Constitution – the right to peaceful and unarmed assembly. This appeal to the high court was brought by the SJC on very limited grounds, focusing only on the requirement to provide notice – a strategy that has paid off, as the contested section of the Regulation of Gatherings Act was declared unconstitutional. This case note dissects some of the key arguments raised by the SJC and by the state, and analyses the court’s reasoning in reaching this finding.

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测试司法机关的意愿以重新构想抗议法：关于SJC10案的案例说明

期待已久的SJC10案的判决于2018年1月24日下达。该案标志着集体对公民社会的祸害的胜利–将对召集人的抗议未定为刑事定罪。为进一步认真参与《 1993年聚会规则》的合法性及其可能的重新制定以实现《宪法》第17条（和平与无武装集会权）开辟道路，还有很长的路要走。SJC在非常有限的理由下向高等法院提起上诉，仅着眼于提供通知的要求，该策略已奏效，因为《聚会规则》中有争议的部分被宣布违宪。本案例说明剖析了SJC和国家提出的一些关键论点，