Overview

• On July 10 the Home Office confirmed that Hamas remains listed as a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
• The designation makes any membership of or support for Hamas in Britain a criminal offence.
• The group can appeal to the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission within 90 days, though successful deproscription challenges are exceptionally rare.
• Hamas’s April legal challenge argued that banning its political wing violated the European Convention on Human Rights and impeded efforts to find a political solution.
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority continues investigating Riverway Law, now Riverway to the Sea, over its role in the appeal.