16 h. ago Navy holding two prisoners who survived US strike on alleged drug sub in Caribbean: report

The detention of survivors could pose legal and intelligence challenges for the Trump administration

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27 h. ago 'Palestine Action protesters' deny breaking into a weapons factory in Kent and causing £1.4Million of damage

Activists allegedly filmed themselves breaking into Instro Precision in Sandwich in the early hours of June 17, 2024, throwing stock to the ground and smashing computers with a crowbar.

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28 h. ago Group denies causing £1 million of damage in alleged Palestine Action attack

Activists allegedly filmed themselves breaking into Instro Precision in Sandwich in the early hours of June 17 2024, throwing stock to the ground and smashing computers with a crowbar.

Economics

31 h. ago Palestine Action's bid to challenge its status as a terror organisation CAN proceed, judges rule, as they dismiss Home Office appeal

Palestine Action's co-founder can proceed with a High Court challenge against the Government over the group's ban as a terror organisation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

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31 h. ago Palestine Action legal challenge over group’s terror ban allowed to go ahead

The Court of Appeal ruled Palestine Action’s co-founder can proceed with a High Court challenge against the government

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31 h. ago Palestine Action given green light to challenge ban as Home Office loses court bid

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Society

52 h. ago Palestine Action cases placing ‘big burden’ on counter terror police, Met chief admits

Sir Mark Rowley said he fears the ‘justice system isn’t moving fast enough’ as he revealed the toll of policing those defying the terror ban

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3 d. ago Shabana Mahmood accused of 'siding against local people' in Epping migrant row, as council launches new legal challenge to close down asylum hotel

Epping Forest District Council's High Court challenge claims accommodating asylum seekers at the Bell Hotel is a 'serious, flagrant and continuing' breach of planning laws.

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4 d. ago Cracking down on repeat protest means ‘giving succour to haters’ – MP

Shabana Mahmood was not proposing the ‘removal of the right to protest’, she told the Commons.

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6 d. ago Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forcesThe White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday.Vance was asked on NBC News’s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Who are Palestine Action? Labour peer urges more clarification on terrorist proscription

Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested for holding signs saying they ‘oppose genocide and support Palestine Action’

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8 d. ago Campaigners welcome Scottish legal challenge to ‘draconian’ Palestine Action ban

Campaign group Defend our Juries said it planned to escalate the “mass defiance of the ban” on Palestine Action next month.

Politics

8 d. ago Block on small boat migrants claiming British citizenship could be ruled 'unlawful' under new human rights legal challenge

An application for a judicial review could leave the Government unable to block citizenship applications from migrants, the Daily Mail can reveal.

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9 d. ago Rights group should be allowed to challenge jet parts export ruling, judges told

Al-Haq is bringing a bid to appeal against the High Court’s decision to dismiss their legal challenge earlier this year.

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9 d. ago Old library to become mosque after legal challenge called off

Monmouthshire County Council has confirmed it has now received notification the judicial review will not proceed.

Politics

1 week ago Brooklyn Beckham fends off legal battle with tennis star Roger Federer as he continues attempts to expand his hot sauce company amid family rift

The son of Victoria and David Beckham , 26, announced the launch of his spicy condiment, Cloud23, back in October.

Events

1 week ago US supreme court appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’

Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the countryThe US supreme court appeared ready to rule against a Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” practices that seek to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity, repeatedly questioning the state over whether the law hindered free speech and whether these practices have been proven harmful.The high-stakes case could roll back the rights of LGBTQ+ youth across the country. Colorado is one of more than 20 states in the US that have banned conversion practices, and a ruling in favor of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal group, could make those laws vulnerable to similar challenges. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Illinois braces for possible National Guard arrival while lawsuit challenging deployment simmers

Illinois officials are bracing for the possible arrival of the National Guard while a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to send hundreds of troops to the Chicago area still simmers

Politics

1 week ago Voices: ‘Undemocratic and unlawful’: Readers react to police crackdown on repeat protests

Most readers condemned the government’s move to bolster restrictions on protests, arguing it is conflating Palestine Action demonstrations with antisemitism

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1 week ago High Court to hear major legal challenge over 'baffling' Greater Manchester masterplan change

Greater Manchester's Places for Everyone plan is to face legal scrutiny over the proposed loss of green belt land at London's high court

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