UK Government Appeals High Court Ruling Over Palestine Action Ban
The UK Home Office has launched an appeal in the Court of Appeal to revive a ban on the direct-action group Palestine Action. This follows a February High Court ruling that described the group's proscription as a terrorist organization as "disproportionate" and unlawful, effectively quashing the original order. Government lawyers argue the initial judgment was legally flawed and that claims regarding the ban's impact on freedom of expression were "overstated and wrong." Conversely, the group's co-founder and intervening human rights organizations, including Liberty and Amnesty International UK, contend that the proscription created a "culture of fear" and interfered with fundamental speech rights.
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Palestine Action ban created ‘culture of fear’, UK appeal court hears | Palestine Action | The Guardian
A protester holds a sign outside Royal Courts of Justice during the Palestine Action appeal hearing. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock ... Home secretary is challenging high court decision that PA’s proscription interfered with freedom of speech
What is Palestine Action – and why was it banned as a terrorist organisation? | The Independent
And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.Your support makes all the difference.Read more · The Home Office is challenging the High Court ruling in February that found the ban against Palestine Action ...
The judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action takes place in the Court of Appeal on 28-30 April 2026. The hearing can be viewed here: ... Deighton Pierce Glynn is acting for Amnesty International UK who, together with Liberty, have been given permission to intervene in the Court of Appeal proceedings. The appeal was brought by Home Secretary after the High ...
UK government fights to revive ban on Palestine Action in appeal | Middle East Eye
The UK government accused the courts ... direct-action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. In an appeal lodged at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, the Home Office argued that the initial judgment, which found the proscription unlawful, was legally flawed and ...
Liberty intervenes in Government appeal of Palestine Action judgment - Liberty
The human rights organisation previously intervened in the Palestine Action’s challenge to the proscription order at the High Court – and has today intervened in the Government’s appeal of that High Court judgment.
Lawyers for Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told the Court of Appeal that the finding that the ban had a significant impact on freedom of expression was “overstated and wrong”. Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020 and brought the successful challenge, argues proscription has ...
The Home Office is appealing against a High Court ruling in February that the ban on Palestine Action under anti-terror laws should be quashed. Palestine Action’s co-founder won a legal challenge over the group’s proscription as a terror group after they were proscribed in July last year ...
Impact of Palestine Action ban on human rights overstated, Home Office lawyer claims | The National
LAWYERS acting for the UK Government have claimed that the High Court's findings about the impact on human rights of banning Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation were “overstated and wrong”. The Home Office is challenging the February ruling, claiming that the decision to ban Palestine ...
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