Covid Party Arrests Depends On Post Code.

[needawin]

Arrests in Hackney and Jewish wedding.
Party in Knightsbridge. No arrests.
Arrest them all.

[Sunk]

5 fined £200 at the wedding.
But there will be a wedding guest list with all 400 (or is 150) guests.
£80,000 for the public kitty.

[New Judge]

//that's the trouble, emmie, it's not really "law". Everything's been so vague since the beginning…//

This isn’t vague. You can’t hold a wedding with 150 guests.

// But there will be a wedding guest list with all 400 (or is 150) guests.
£80,000 for the public kitty.//

Not that simple, Sunk. To issue a fixed penalty they have to be caught in the act. To prosecute them they would have to prove they were there.

[rockyracoon]

I’d also imagine that a large part of the 400, or 150, were children

[bentaxle]

Another bunch of idiots ,we don't punish them enough that's the trouble they should start with a fire hose in this weather instead of the police getting hurt trying to stop it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9181289/Police-fine-revellers-illegal-rave-London-officers-Birmingham-issue-16k-fines.html

[jno]

you can't hold one, NJ, but can you attend one?

I didn't know there were going to be hundreds of people there. I was very careful to keep my distance, but other people did crowd in on me some of the time. When I tried to leave, the exits were blocked and I didn't dare aproach them.

I can see this being a consequence-free event (apart from dying).

[New Judge]

//...but can you attend one?//

No. You are not allowed to leave home unless you have a reasonable excuse or are taking advantage of one of the "exceptions" listed in the legislation:

"Exception 8 is that it is reasonably necessary for P to leave or be outside P’s home to attend a marriage ceremony, a civil partnership ceremony or an alternative wedding ceremony permitted under paragraph 6(11)."

Such a ceremony is restricted to six persons otherwise it is not permitted. Those attending have a responsibility to establish that the gathering they are attending meets the restrictions. Since the majority of those getting married probably invite their four parents anybody else who is invited should make enquiries before they set out.

[Sunk]

They will have the names of all the guests. Their phones and their Facebook pages will be full of pictures.

But lets face it, no one is bothered. They have nabbed 5 people so they are seen to be doing something.
The other 395 who escaped, so what?

[jno]

interesting follow-up to this

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/large-weddings-packed-schools-haredi-jews-flout-english-lockdown

Ultra-Orthodox are ignoring restrictions like crazy, holding half a dozen hooleys every week, indemnifying organisers against fines ... and dying.