Liberal Law’s Repressive Turn

Liberal Law’s Repressive Turn

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action is lawful, overturning a previous ruling that the proscription had violated fundamental rights.The judgment follows a wider pattern in which liberal law has been shredded in the name of defending against the alleged threat posed by the direct action group. Four PA activists, recently convicted of criminal damage after a protest at an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, were giv…