The cases of 20 people accused of staging a sit-in at London’s luxury food store Fortnum and Mason have been delayed.
District Judge Daphne Wickham described the delay as a “screening-out process” to find any defendants who should not have been charged.
Twenty people charged with aggravated trespass over the March protest have had their cases put back until June.
A selection of cases are expected to be sent to trial at the next hearing.
Campaign group UK Uncut organised a sit-in at Fortnum & Mason, in Piccadilly, on 26 March in protest over alleged tax avoidance by the business’s part-owners.
Police arrested 145 people and a total of 138 of those were charged with aggravated trespass.
Meanwhile thousands of people took part in an anti-spending cuts demonstration in the city on the same day.
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