Did Cooper Prejudice A Jury? | Contempt Filed
Yvette Cooper’s Observer column is now the evidence in a contempt complaint - but will the law apply to a minister? Right, so look at this. Yvette Cooper, former Home Secretary, now Foreign Secretary, wrote in a national newspaper piece about Palestine Action while criminal proceedings linked to them are still live, and she’s done it in the one way that creates the maximum legal friction, because she’s not just arguing policy, she’s branding them with “violence, intimidation… weapons, and serious injuries”, and then she admits in the same breath that “important details cannot yet be publicly…
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