Tom Southerden

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104 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 19 Feb

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We were doing this for some greater social purpose, you know, some greater good.

You know, one of the beauties of the jury system is it's your...

fellow members of society viewing it and taking their own view about whether this is something that should be criminalised.

Yeah.

That was a very long pause, wasn't it?

I apologise.

I should have leapt in with it.

It's going to be great.

It's going to be fine.

There's a long way to go, right?

As I said at the start, the structure of the way these laws are written...

puts the government in the driving seat for a lot of this.

It is very, very positive that the High Court found it to be disproportionate.

So the appeal will start from that premise, if you see what I mean.

It's much better than the other way around, for example.

So there's definitely a lot to hope for there.

And then on the human rights argument, on the thing that we care about most, this idea that this is basically fundamentally disproportionate.

This is an abuse of very draconian, very serious powers that you look at what has previously been prescribed.

We're talking about al-Qaeda.

Whatever you think of powers in action, you do not have to support powers in action to recognize that it is not the same thing.

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