Labour can appeal against the High Court’s ruling that banning Palestine Action as a terror group was unlawful, judges have ruled.
Three judges ruled on February 13 that the Government’s move to proscribe the group was unlawful, and said that they “propose to make an order quashing” the decision.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said after the decision that she would fight to prevent the proscription being lifted.
In an order today, the Home Office was given the green light to challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal.
“The defendant’s application for permission to appeal is allowed,” the order read.
“The claimant’s application for permission to cross-appeal is refused.”
No date for the appeal has been set.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 in July last year when she was serving as home secretary.
Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, took legal action against the Home Office over the decision last June
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Proscription makes it a criminal offence to belong to or support the group, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, took legal action against the Home Office over the decision last June.
Her barriers told the High Court last year that the ban was an “ill-considered, discriminatory, due process-lacking, authoritarian abuse of statutory power”.
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