It should be in the textbooks, the judgment, for illustrating how legal outcomes are constructed by judges' selection and characterisation of facts. Stressing the covert, unapologetic, 'violent' nature of Palestine Action in contrast to the 'good' type of direct action that the Sufragettes did.
Jolyon Maugham KC
Shabana Mahmood's appeal is allowed. The Court of Appeal finds the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was lawful. Key is what the Court of Appeal describes as its "pattern of escalatory behaviour" - i.e. what it might do in the future.
