NSW’s top court will hold an urgent hearing in the latest test case on protest rights as police seek an order blocking a planned pro-Palestine march descending on the Sydney Opera House forecourt on Sunday.

NSW Police lodged an application last week in the Supreme Court, seeking a prohibition order over the protest. Jewish leaders back the police in opposing the rally and will seek to be heard in court.

Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison made orders on Tuesday paving the way for the state’s top court, the Court of Appeal, to hear the application on Wednesday.

The court will examine the implied freedom of political communication in the Commonwealth Constitution and Sydney Opera House by-laws that make it an offence to participate in public demonstrations on the premises.

The planned

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