As far as I know Hackney Council were trying to pull a fast one by taking this to the high court - so as to get precidence to make any future eviction process in hackney a quicker affair - and also to make it an offence punishable by a 6 month prison sentance for not leaving an occupied building when ordered to do so. Please correct me if this is wrong, but it sounded like the council were being well out of order in this, and apparently the high court agreed.

Recent media coverage has seen the occupation and campaign to save the buildings in London's Time Out magazine.

Also there's been some coverage of the occupation and the "Breath of Fresh Air for Dalston" project, which has been developed by residents as an alternative to controversial plans proposed by Transport for London (TFL) and Hackney Council for the new Dalston Junction tube station:

 http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1226
 http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp?id=197463

Tonight there's a local campaign meeting going on so hopefully some more news will come out of that. And if people can get along to support those in court on friday that'd be great- but at the moment i don't know when or which court it's in. Assuming the county court grants in favour of the council an eviction could happen any time after that - i'm sure the occupiers would appreciate as much help as possible over the coming days...

More at:  http://opendalston.blogspot.com/

See also
 http://libcom.org/news/article.php/broadway-market-cafe-occupation-2005-6