On 3 July the staff held a meeting at an hotel near the School. The School Registrar accompanied by police entered uninvited and handed them writs requiring them to appear before a Judge on Monday 8 July. On 6 July the students locked the building and Council representatives shouted at them through a loudhailer to leave by 11:30. SCC sent letters to thirty four students warning them of consequences if they stayed. The students stayed. Questions began to be asked in the House of Commons. On 9 July a letter from a number of noted academic. writers and artists including David Hockney was published in the Times. It was the first of many and would eventually lead to the collapse of SCC's case and a Public Enquiry.