Post #2646415
2026-05-17 08:45 UTC
When Yvette Cooper rejected legal advice & wrote a column criticising Palestine Action, while activists were being tried, did she (as the defence alleged) interfere with the judicial process making a fair trial more difficult or as the Judge concluded only risk 'causing some prejudice to these proceedings, but that is different from deliberately flouting a reporting restriction order'?
I think the defence was right; it was an attempt to prejudice the trial!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/17/yvette-cooper-palestine-action-article-despite-cps-warning-trial
Replies (4)
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@TCatInReality@mastodon.social 2026-05-17 08:56
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Surely, the next leader of the #Labour party will need to get out of this self-dug hole. It's as simple as dropping the appeal of the Court decision.
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@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-17 10:02
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Cooper is also a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
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@rochelimit@beige.party 2026-05-17 10:48
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us There are all sorts of procedural oddities that will need reviewing on appeal. This is a big one.
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@Theriac@plasmatrap.com 2026-05-17 10:55
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Giver her a 15 year term under ill defined terrorism laws.