VANCOUVER - Occupy Vancouver shifted its rolling protest Tuesday from downtown Vancouver to a city-owned park on Commercial Drive in east Vancouver.

But the protesters’ stay at Grandview Park didn’t last long. Discouraged by park officials and police from setting up camp there, they decided late Tuesday to disband for the night and meet back at the park at noon today.

Their venture into Commercial Drive, a neighbourhood with a long history of left-wing activism, came a few hours after the B.C. Supreme Court granted an injunction against an Occupy encampment erected Monday at the Robson Square law courts.

Associate Chief Justice Anne MacKenzie, who granted an earlier injunction to the city over the long-running Vancouver Art Gallery encampment, gave the protesters a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline to leave their one-day-old camp at Robson Square. Protesters began dismantling tents minutes after the ruling Tuesday afternoon.

“We’re not stupid,” said Occupy Vancouver supporter Suresh Fernando. “Nobody wants to go to jail.”

As protesters placed tents into trucks, Fernando said the local group isn’t about to fold. He predicted future Occupy protests in the city.

Fernando said the demonstrators will continue to stage protests “in public space,” adding, “not everything needs to be a permanent occupation.”

He said Occupy recognizes that its disruptive protests are annoying some segments of the public, but “it’s in the interest of the greater good.”

After Tuesday’s ruling, about 30 protesters took the SkyTrain to Commercial Drive then walked to Grandview Park, where they began to discuss whether to set up a tent city. Some said there was resistance from some neighbours to their presence in the park.

Vancouver park board general manager Malcolm Bromley arrived at the park and urged the protesters not to set up camp.

Grandview Park officially reopened in September after months of renovations.

Bromley was accompanied by police officers, who told the protesters that when the park closed at 10 p.m., they would evict anyone still there and take down any structures.

The three-hour general assembly that followed ended with the protesters agreeing to leave for the night, saying they would return today to talk about their next move.

In his submission Tuesday on behalf of the attorney-general, lawyer Craig Jones said the application was to “restore and preserve unimpeded access by the public to the Vancouver Law Courts and to prevent any interference with the operation of the courts.”

The application for the injunction was brought by the province as landowner under the Trespass Act, but by the Ministry of Attorney-General in its capacity to prevent public nuisance.

The ministry argued that by moving to the Robson Square plaza adjoining the entrance to the Provincial Court portion of the courthouse, Occupy Vancouver protesters were in “criminal contempt” of the court as they were “impeding access to the courts.”

In addition, they were also causing public nuisance “by unreasonably interfering with the public’s interest in questions of health, safety, morality, comfort or convenience.”

Jones compared the “occupation” of the courthouse precincts to the Allied occupation of Germany after the Second World War. “Occupation means control of a space.”