The Court of Appeal hearing in the Palestine Action case has started
Lawyers for the home secretary are appealing against the High Court's ruling that banning the group as a terrorist organisation was unlawful, and PA's lawyers argue the appeal should be dismissed
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...
My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action.
verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...
The First Annual Report of the New Independent Examiner of Security Legislation has been laid before the Oireachtas.
opac.oireachtas.ie/Data/Library...
Out now | How to Embed Authenticity in Legal Assessments: Responding to Generative AI
Verona Ní Drisceoil, Jo Wilson and Jeanette Ashton
Free – read the Introduction on Elgaronline:
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Available in print through our website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation @terrorwatchdog.bsky.social has been commissioned by the government to do an independent review of section 1 Terrorism Act 2006 (encouraging terrorism). terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk
My successor as Independent Prevent Commissioner is Tim Jacques. I welcome him warmly to the post and wish him every success in helping improve Prevent and hold it to account. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Heartfelt solidarity with UK Jewish communities after recent attacks. My report of July 2025 has useful background on Prevent (see esp chh 1 and 7 www.gov.uk/government/p...) but I am leaving media on this to my successor as Independent Prevent Commissioner, Tim Jacques www.gov.uk/government/o....
Alan Greene
Lizzie Dearden
Alan Greene
The Independent Reviewer�s role is to inform the public and political debate on anti-terrorism law in the United Kingdom, in particular through regular reports which are prepared for the Home Secretar...
Lord Anderson shares lessons for the programme following the murder of Sir David Amess by Ali Harbi Ali and the attack in Southport by Axel Muganwa Rudakubana.
The Palestine Action judgment: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
‘Too often we treat national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people. Yet the case of Peter Mandelson shows just how lopsided and politically motivated those assessments can be.’
@daniellalock.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Paul F Scott
www.judiciary.uk
London Review of Books
The High Court has ruled that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action – which has led to the...
