Tag: Terrorism
-
Daniella Lock: In Defence of the Divisional Court’s Palestine Action Ruling
This post responds to important issues raised by Dane Luo and Gabriel Tan with regard to one of the grounds upheld by the Divisional Court in the judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription (R (Ammori) v Home Secretary [2026] EWHC 292 (Admin)). The ground was upheld on the basis that the Home Secretary’s proscription decision considered…
-
Dane Luo and Gabriel Tan: Non-Textual, Purposive Limits on Policy? The Divisional Court’s Errors on the Home Secretary’s Proscription Policy in the Palestine Action Judgment
On 13 February 2026, the Divisional Court (Dame Victoria Sharp PKBD, Swift and Steyn JJ) upheld the judicial review brought against the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000: R (Ammori) v Home Secretary [2026] EWHC 292 (Admin).The Court dismissed two grounds: failing to give Palestine Action the opportunity to make representations (ground…
-
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…
-
Nour Haidar: Home Secretary vs Palestine Action: The Constitutional Implications of Widening the Legal Understanding of Terrorism
On 23 June 2025 the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced in Parliament that she had “decided to proscribe Palestine Action under section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000.” Section 3 of the 2000 Act gives the Home Secretary the power to proscribe an organisation by laying before Parliament an order to add the organisation to…
-
Weekly round-up of events
This week’s event announcements include: The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance, Goodenough College, London, 26-27 November 2018 Transnational Counter-Terrorism: The Urgent Need for Constitutionalist Attention, Current Legal Problems lecture, UCL, 29 November 2018 ~~~ The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance Monday 26 November 2018 (all day) and…
-
Paul F. Scott: The Belhaj Saga: The Beginning of the End?
Introduction The announcement today that the government has apologised to Abdelhakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar, as well as paying compensation of £500,000 to the latter, would seem to mark the beginning of the end of the process of attempting to secure accountability for some of the most astonishing events in which the British government is…
-
Call for Papers: Conference on “Constitutionalism Across Borders in the Struggle Against Terrorism”
The International Association of Constitutional Law’s* Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism has issued a call for proposals (in the form of abstracts) for papers to be given at a roundtable to be held at Harvard Law School, USA on 6-7 March 2014 entitled “Constitutionalism Across Borders in the Struggle Against Terrorism” During the last two decades…
-
Douglas Edlin: Executing the Laws
Lethal Force and Legal Process According to Article II, Section 3 of the US Constitution, the President of the United States must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” In a speech delivered earlier this month, Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States, offered a legal defense of actions taken by the…