The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.

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    Nitpick: it’s Parliament who proscribed Palestine Action, not the courts.

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      It is the courts upholding it though.

      It took like two months now that Palestine Action are allowed to get an appeals hearing in November iirc.
      Courts could have decided for the proscription to not be applicable until a proper hearing takes place. Instead it was upheld.

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      Cross nitpick: Just because the courts are following Parliament’s ‘law’ in no way negates their complicity in doing wrong.

      See Nazi guards following Hitler’s rules for reference.

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        Nazi guards murdered people. I’ll condemn the courts for carrying out the law when it involves murdering people.

        I don’t believe anyone has been convicted yet in these cases (probably many have not even been charged) so the role of the courts so far was to agree to judicial review but to decline an interim block on the order. Parliament is clearly more to blame for this.

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            So, just to be clear, what are we condemning the courts - which haven’t convicted anyone of anything in this - for?

            Condemnation certainly doesn’t achieve anything when anyone can see you’re condemning people for stuff they haven’t done. I know that the zeitgeist is vibes-based but we should really be doing better than that.

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          Yes, because prosecuting people for being political dissidents doing nothing other than holding a sign is always right and just.

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            Do you want to try again, using the words I wrote rather than the ones you pulled out of the air?

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        Judicial review would imply a higher authority.

        Judicial review is a process under which a government’s executive, legislative, or administrative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.  In a judicial review, a court may invalidate laws, acts, or governmental actions that are incompatible with a higher authority.

        For the most part, UK’s highest legal authority is Parliament.

        Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle of the UK constitution. It makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the UK, which can create or end any law. Generally, the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important part of the UK constitution.

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          The Supreme Court, as well as being the final court of appeal, plays an important role in the development of United Kingdom law.

          As an appeal court, The Supreme Court cannot consider a case unless a relevant order has been made in a lower court.

          • It is the final court of appeal for all United Kingdom civil cases, and criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

          • It hears appeals on arguable points of law of general public importance.

          • It concentrates on cases of the greatest public and constitutional importance.

          • It maintains and develops the role of the highest court in the United Kingdom as a leader in the common law world.