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Over 300 Masonic Membership Among Met Police Sparks Corruption Concerns and Legal Challenge

Met's policy that compels officers and employees to disclose membership in hierarchical societies such as Freemasonry is triggered by privacy concerns and prejudice.

International Business Times UK

Over 300 Met staff disclose they are Freemasons or in other hierarchical groups

High court judge is considering legal challenge to policy obliging officers to declare affiliation to organisation

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Met police officers and staff declare Freemasons membership

Judge says ‘some 300 officers and staff have already declared their involvement in Masonic and other hierarchical associations’

Evening Standard

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Revealed: The number of Met officers and staff who have links to the Freemasons

The Met now insists officers must declare if they are members of the organisation

The Independent UK

Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’

Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain

The Guardian - UK

Palestine Action case 'not exceptional', Home Office insists in legal battle over ban

A CHALLENGE over the ban of Palestine Action as a terror group is not “exceptional” and should not be heard at the High Court, lawyers for the…

The National (Scotland)

Appeal against Palestine Action ban is not an ‘exceptional’ case, Home Office lawyers argue

Lawyers for the action group have argued that the case should proceed to a judicial review

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Palestine Action case not ‘exceptional’, Home Office tells appeal judges

The Home Office is challenging a decision to allow the co-founder of the group to bring a High Court challenge over the ban.

Evening Standard

Home Office appeal over Palestine Action ban legal challenge to be heard

The Home Office is challenging the decision to allow the legal challenge over the ban to proceed.

Evening Standard

Home Office wins right to challenge Palestine Action terror ban appeal

Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to proscribe the group

Evening Standard

Palestine Action arrests: what happens next, and what it tells us about the breadth of Britain’s counter-terrorism laws

The proscription of Palestine Action – banning membership or support for the organisation on the ground that the home secretary believes it is “concerned in terrorism” – has led to hundreds of arrests, two legal challenges and many questions about the state of protest rights in the UK.

The Conversation

High Court quashes Foreign Office refusal to help Palestinian family leave Gaza

The Foreign Office must reconsider the decision not to support a Palestinian family’s attempts to leave Gaza after they were told they could…

The National (Scotland)

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told

Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears

The Guardian - UK

Banning Palestine Action an 'abuse of power', High Court told

BANNING Palestine Action as a terror organisation had the hallmarks of a “blatant abuse of power” and made the UK an “international…

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Palestine Action co-founder set to challenge UK Government terror ban

The co-founder of the proscribed group Palestine Action is set to ask the High Court for the green light to challenge the Home Secretary’s…

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: How the two-year effort to keep the Afghanistan data breach secret fell apart

In today’s newsletter: Questions have been raised over whether a superinjunction was used for national security or to avert an immigration scandal

Evening Standard

High Court to hear bid to challenge Palestine Action ban

Huda Ammori is seeking to challenge Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror laws earlier this year.

The Independent UK

Defence secretary revealed sensitive Afghan data breach details – but media still banned from reporting it

John Healey revealed details to MPs that have previously been kept secret – the media is fighting to be allowed to tell you what it is

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The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps pushed for MoD Afghan superinjunction to remain in place

Ex-Tory defence secretary wanted data breach affecting those at risk from Taliban to be secret for as long as possible, say MoD sources

The Independent UK

Information that led to Afghan superinjunction being lifted was available last year, government admits

Fresh questions have been raised over why the unprecedented gagging order was maintained for so long when the level of risk to Afghans was known last year

The Guardian - UK

What are superinjunctions and why was one imposed in Afghan case?

Superinjunction preventing reporting of data breach was lifted this week more than 600 days after it had taken effect

Evening Standard

OPINION - Afghan data breach is a shameful blight on our country - and a symptom of broader systemic failures

The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at…

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leak

Conservative government used superinjuction to hide error that put Afghans at risk and led to £2bn mitigation scheme

Evening Standard

Ministry of Defence data breach timeline

A timeline of events in the data breach and how governments responded to it.

Evening Standard

‘Fundamentally objectionable’ that Afghan relocation decisions lacked scrutiny

The decisions affect the lives and safety of thousands and the commitment of billions of pounds of public money.

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