{"id":295904,"date":"2026-02-13T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295904\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:25:09","slug":"palestine-action-ban-ruled-unlawful-but-group-remains-proscribed-for-now-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295904\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former home secretary did not follow her own policies, High Court toldpublished at 11:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f8593901-0042-4d00-ba76-bfac08696999.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Dominic Casciani<br \/>Home and legal correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yvette Cooper is seen up close\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5369e99c-94ec-4291-bdda-33930b2a292b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The High Court said that when the former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper decided to ban the organisation last June, she had failed to first take into account what impact that decision would have on the right to protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also said she had not fully followed her own policies regarding the test for when an organisation should be proscribed under the Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to the ban, the group\u2019s volunteers had been breaking into arms firms linked to Israel, leading to charges of criminal damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terrorism legislation permits ministers to ban a group which causes serious damage to property in order to further their cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The High Court ruled that the organisation had no human rights defence to those incidents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the judge said that a critical issue in the case was whether the ban was impacting the rights of others to protest in support of Palestinian issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe accept that the fact of proscription and the heavy penalties for [terrorism offences] will mean that it is reasonable to expect people to be risk averse, to adjust their behaviour and to avoid doing things that run any significant risk that they might commit any of those criminal offences,\u201d Dame Victoria Sharp said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judges said that while \u201ca very small number\u201d of Palestine Action\u2019s activities met the legal test for acts of terrorism, the standard criminal law could be used to confront the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former home secretary did not follow her own policies, High Court toldpublished at 11:19 GMT 11:19 GMT Dominic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-295904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}