Jessie Blackbourn
@jessieblackbourn.bsky.social
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The way Palestine Action ban was approved by MPs has been raised in the High Court, with Dame Victoria Sharp noting 2 unrelated groups were on the same order
She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight
She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight
Many MPs demanding explanation on why two other groups are on same banning order
Labour MP Kim Johnson says: "Lumping Palestine Action together with other two obscure groups to ensure it is proscribed is a disgraceful manipulation of parliamentary procedure"
Labour MP Kim Johnson says: "Lumping Palestine Action together with other two obscure groups to ensure it is proscribed is a disgraceful manipulation of parliamentary procedure"
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The way Palestine Action ban was approved by MPs has been raised in the High Court, with Dame Victoria Sharp noting 2 unrelated groups were on the same order
She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight
She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight
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I recorded a podcast with @daniellalock.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social in which we discuss decision to ban #PalestineAction. There is some really excellent stuff in here-- Daniella and Colin are on top of their briefs.
Please do check it out and share widely!
youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...
Please do check it out and share widely!
youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...
Banning Palestine Action: Legal Experts Explain the Implications for UK Democracy
YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I recorded a podcast with @daniellalock.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social in which we discuss decision to ban #PalestineAction. There is some really excellent stuff in here-- Daniella and Colin are on top of their briefs.
Please do check it out and share widely!
youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...
Please do check it out and share widely!
youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...
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Free seminar on Prevent and Extremism in Oxford this Thursday, with me and the excellent Julia Ebner: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/preve.... Some background to my own work on Prevent is here: www.daqc.co.uk/2025/11/16/l....
Prevent and Counter-Extremism in the UK
Join Lord David Anderson, the UK's Independent Prevent Commissioner and former Terror Watchdog, for a seminar on the changing nature of extremist threats and the UK's Prevent strategy as part of the C...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Free seminar on Prevent and Extremism in Oxford this Thursday, with me and the excellent Julia Ebner: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/preve.... Some background to my own work on Prevent is here: www.daqc.co.uk/2025/11/16/l....
Important new report from the Bingham Centre's Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice: binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
binghamcentre.biicl.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Important new report from the Bingham Centre's Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice: binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
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Data released this week shows that a record number of referrals were made to Prevent in the year to March 2025. The majority of referrals were made for individuals who had “no identified ideology.”
INSIDE “CHANNEL PANEL” | For the first time in its history, journalists have been granted unprecedented access to see the inner workings of Prevent, a multi-agency government programme that aims to stop people from perpetrating terrorist acts.
www.channel4.com/news/unprece...
www.channel4.com/news/unprece...
Unprecedented access to UK’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme – and decision making process
For the first time in its history, journalists have been granted unprecedented access to see the inner workings of Prevent, a government programme that ultimately aims to stop people from perpetrating...
www.channel4.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Data released this week shows that a record number of referrals were made to Prevent in the year to March 2025. The majority of referrals were made for individuals who had “no identified ideology.”
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I am delighted to see this great piece in the Guardian about developments in partial ectogestation - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - and glad to have had the opportunity to contribute some of the insights from my work over the last 8 years @durham.ac.uk
This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it?
For parents who have buried infants born too soon, a device like the AquaWomb is a miracle in waiting – and an impossible choice
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I am delighted to see this great piece in the Guardian about developments in partial ectogestation - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - and glad to have had the opportunity to contribute some of the insights from my work over the last 8 years @durham.ac.uk
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Prevent opened up to C4 News last week. This 10-minute film (from 19:30) is the result. Recommended.
www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
Channel 4 News
Channel 4's flagship news programme. In-depth news and current affairs.
www.channel4.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Prevent opened up to C4 News last week. This 10-minute film (from 19:30) is the result. Recommended.
www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
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Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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My report of July 2025 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Lessons for Prevent
Lord Anderson shares lessons for the programme following the murder of Sir David Amess by Ali Harbi Ali and the attack in Southport by Axel Muganwa Rudakubana.
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My report of July 2025 www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Full figures here www.gov.uk/government/s...
Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme, April 2024 to March 2025
www.gov.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Full figures here www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Far-right cases referred to Prevent programme double those for Islamist extremism
A record 8,778 people were referred to the government’s anti-extremism scheme in the year to March 2025
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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A majority of #PREVENT referrals in the past year have no identifiable ideology.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A majority of #PREVENT referrals in the past year have no identifiable ideology.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It's a tight race. Callum still needs a bit of support from Team Dog.
Callum needs your vote!
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's a tight race. Callum still needs a bit of support from Team Dog.
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The IPT has dismissed complaints made by two Guantanamo Bay detainees alleging public law illegality by UK security agencies in their ill-treatment by the US: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.
The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.
www.judiciary.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The IPT has dismissed complaints made by two Guantanamo Bay detainees alleging public law illegality by UK security agencies in their ill-treatment by the US: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.
The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.
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📣 Call for contributors 📣
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📣 Call for contributors 📣
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼
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This is on now. 🤓
I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is on now. 🤓
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Giving this talk tmr!
I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Giving this talk tmr!
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I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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FWIW this isn’t the only systematic review of violent extremism threat/risk assessment tools. There is also this one: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
September 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
FWIW this isn’t the only systematic review of violent extremism threat/risk assessment tools. There is also this one: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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15-page pamphlet summarising the results of systematic literature review of violent extremism risk assessment tools (or threat and risk, given that most studies it examines are of TRAP-18 and that tool’s creator is emphatic about the threat/risk distinction): static1.squarespace.com/static/66895...
static1.squarespace.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
15-page pamphlet summarising the results of systematic literature review of violent extremism risk assessment tools (or threat and risk, given that most studies it examines are of TRAP-18 and that tool’s creator is emphatic about the threat/risk distinction): static1.squarespace.com/static/66895...
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Public Law is looking make several appointments to its Editorial Committee - details etc ⬇️ - expressions of interest to public.law@durham.ac.uk by 31 October 2025.
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Public Law is looking make several appointments to its Editorial Committee - details etc ⬇️ - expressions of interest to public.law@durham.ac.uk by 31 October 2025.
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Prosecuting for Daesh crimes: debate today on JCHR’s important recent report hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-0....
Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report) - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Daesh Crimes: Accountability (JCHR Report)' on Tuesday 9 September 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Prosecuting for Daesh crimes: debate today on JCHR’s important recent report hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-0....
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We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference, 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town.
The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy".
Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...
Details⬇️
The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy".
Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...
Details⬇️
August 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference, 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town.
The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy".
Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...
Details⬇️
The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy".
Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...
Details⬇️
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Happy publication day!
Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a...
Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...
Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a...
Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...
Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: Key Cases and Decisions
This volume brings together expert commentators across different fields of public law to comment on key decisions by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).
Each author explores their case’s content, as well as ...
www.routledge.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy publication day!
Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a...
Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...
Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a...
Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...