Hoof. The legal battle waged by the the Occupy London camp to keep their place at St Paul’s Cathedral was lost last night – and within about five minutes of the injunction being ordered, the camp was evacuated by bailiffs and officers from the City of London Police.

They maintained a liveblog of the procedure over at The Guardian, and so far as that goes it looks like the process was reasonably peaceful, with both cops and protestors making a point of minimizing conflict.

Catherine Brogan, a poet and high-profile member of the Occupy movement, said it made sense for the authorities to come on a Monday night.

“There was talk of prayer rings and of other people coming down to support us when this happened, but many of our supporters are elderly or obviously live in areas other than the centre of London, so this would have caught them by surprise,” she said.

While folks from the camp are saying they’ll take their case to the European court of human rights, they’ve been denied a stay of eviction – and up to 100 tents have been removed from the grounds of the cathedral thus far.

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[Source: Guardian]