UK: High Court finds Palestine Action ban unlawful and should be 'quashed'

England's High Court has ruled that the UK government's ban on Palestine Action is "unlawful" after a months-long legal battle.

Justice Victoria Sharp told the court that the proscription of Palestine Action "did result in a very significant interference with the right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly".

The ruling found that the decision to proscribe the group was discriminatory. However, the ban will remain in force while the government appeals against the decision.

“Palestine Action is an organisation that promotes its political cause through criminality and encouragement of criminality” but proscription was still “disproportionate", Sharp said in a 46-page judgment.

The ruling found that "a very small number of Palestine Action's activities amounted to acts of terrorism" as defined by terror legislation.