AN injunction protecting staff at Speke's Chiron Vaccines plant has been extended by a high court judge.
A temporary injunction was granted against animal rights protest group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty by Mrs Justice Hallett at London's Law Courts on February 9.
Another judge, Mr Justice Royce, has now ruled the order should continue.
The injunction follows the "invasion" of the Speke plant by protesters on January 20 when they got into the staff canteen and protested loudly.
Protesters also hit other Chiron sites in Oxford and Cambridgeshire.
The order covers around 900 workers of the Chiron Corporation and places exclusion zones around their homes and company premises.
Chiron's spokesman said: "We respect the rights of people to express their opinion, but we also have a right to go about our business without fear of harassment."
The court heard that the aim of the protesters was to stop Chiron, which has its headquarters in California with businesses in biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing, from having a future contractual relationship with the drug-testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Mr Justice Royce said that Huntingdon Life Sciences, which has research centres in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, had been the subject of a "ruthless" campaign targeted against them by Shac since
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