This settlement effectively ended the blanket injunction against all protests at the EDO MBM factory in Brighton. The represented defendants had no choice but to sign the undertaking because Legal Aid had become dependent on the offer of such a document to EDO, as a result of the intervention of Keir Starmer QC supposedly on the behalf of the defence. Starmer made the recommendation of such a settlement to the Legal Services Commission who then made it a condition of continued funding of the defence case. Legal funding would thus have been withdrawn from the represented defendants if they had had not signed the undertakings.