"Ansari, who issued legal proceedings on Wednesday against the home secretary and the chief constable of north Wales police, was stopped by officers at the port of Holyhead on 6 August as he returned from a family holiday in Ireland with his wife and four children. Ansari is challenging the decisions to detain and question him, seize his work mobile phone and retain and seek to examine a copy of the phone."
"The grounds for judicial review, prepared by Jude Bunting KC, of Doughty Street Chambers, state that the use of powers under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, which allow offices to stop, question, search and detain a person at a port or border, cannot be justified against a lawyer by reference to the fact that he has acted for a client of interest to the police or intelligence services in the past, or to obtain information about that client from the lawyer."
"I have dealt with the usual media harassment for taking on clients who some consider to be controversial, including Hamas who my law firm represented in its application to be removed from the government's list of banned groups. Some have complained that representing Hamas brings the profession into disrepute. Yet, what really undermines the integrity of the profession is when unpopular clients are unable to secure legal representation because"
Fahad Ansari, who filed legal proceedings challenging Hamas's proscription, was stopped at Holyhead port on 6 August returning from a family holiday and detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Police questioned him largely about Palestine Action and asked about Hamas; he refused to answer on grounds of client confidentiality. The next day police copied the contents of his work phone. Ansari seeks judicial review against the home secretary and the chief constable of north Wales police, arguing Schedule 7 powers cannot lawfully be used to target a lawyer because of a client or to obtain client information.
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