- Craig Murray - "We Accept Of Course That It Is Draconian: And Deliberately So"
- Craig Murray - "We Accept Of Course That It Is Draconian: And Deliberately So" - sashimi July 9, 2025, 7:08 am
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Posted by sashimi
on July 9, 2025, 7:08 am
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8 Jul 2025 On Friday 4 July I headed back to the Royal Courts of Justice for the hearing brought by Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, on an application for relief from the proscription order against Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Huda had applied for judicial review of the legality of this order. There is to be a hearing on whether a judicial review will be granted in the week beginning 21 July. What Friday's hearing was about, was whether the proscription should be suspended until that hearing on whether permission will be given for judicial review. This is called interim relief. The legal precedents on interim relief are that this question should depend on three points. The first is the probability that a full judicial review might ultimately succeed, in other words a preliminary assessment of the merits of the case. The second is whether irremediable damage will be done to anyone in the meantime if the order is not suspended, should the result of the process eventually be a successful judicial review. If those two hurdles are passed, the third is whether on a "balance of convenience" the irremediable harm that might be done if the Order is not suspended but ultimately is set aside on review, is worse than the irremediable harm that the public might suffer from losing the benefit the government intend by the Order in the interim, should the judicial review be denied or eventually confirm the legality of the Order. At this stage I presume you are deciding whether to bother to read that six times until it makes some sort of sense, or whether this is going to be an impenetrably dull article full of arcane legal nonsense and you would rather browse something else. I do sympathise. On Thursday I had spent the train journey down from Edinburgh trying to get my head round all this; at one stage I had a lovely tourist couple from Hungary, who had the bad luck to share the train table with me, each kindly holding sheaves of documents and using their thumbs as placeholders. I rose at 6am on Friday to ensure I would get into the courtroom. I was anticipating that, as with the Assange hearings or the ICJ hearings on Genocide, there may be a long queue waiting to enter. In fact there was nobody at all at 7am except me and a great many policemen. -- Cont'd at https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/07/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so/ |
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