11 Dec Palestine Action Judicial Review: Amnesty International UK Intervention

The High Court heard the judicial review of the UK government’s decision to ‘proscribe’ the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation (R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department) over three days on 27, 28 November & 2 December 2025. The three judges are now considering their judgment.

Amnesty International UK and Liberty were given permission to intervene in the case and opposed the proscription decision on the basis that it was a disproportionate interference with freedoms of expression and assembly.  They highlighted the serious impact on the long history of direct action protest in the UK, with reference to the wide range of potential criminal offences that result from proscription, such as the criminalisation of meetings that further the purpose of the proscribed organisation, even where that purpose is direct action protest in relation to Palestine.

A copy of Amnesty & Liberty’s Intervention Submissions can be downloaded here.

For further details please see here.

Amnesty International UK are being represented by DPG staff Daniel Carey, Gus Silverman, Emily Soothill and Evie Oldfield, instructing (with Liberty) Tom Hickman KC of Blackstone Chambers and Jessica Jones and Rosalind Comyn of Matrix Chambers.

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