Tag: national security
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Bernard Keenan and Ewan Smith: Proscription, Proportion, and Palestine Action – Part 1
Introduction The Supreme Court will hear the Home Secretary’s appeal in R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department on 4 and 5 November 2026. The case concerns the Home Secretary’s June 2025 decision to proscribe Palestine Action under s.3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (TA). Hundreds of prosecutions are currently pending in…
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Conor Crummey: The Principle of Legality, the Definition of ‘Terrorism’, and Palestine Action
Two judgments have so far been handed down in the matter of R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; the challenge to the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000 (‘the 2000 Act’). The first was on the matter of interim relief, which…