Daniella Lock
Lecturer in Law, KCL
Researching UK executive power, national security, political economy and human rights
kcl.ac.uk/people/daniella-lock
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- On access by Palantir (and other companies) to the UK's national security infrastructure, this recent paper sets out developments in contracting out UK national security protection and raises questions about what this means for the UK's operational independence: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.
- Reposted by Daniella LockNew from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
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- Stephen Sedley's important intervention here highlights the problems with the government's argument that it cannot intervene in relation to the hunger strikers, who are now close to death. It can and should. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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- New report from @hrw.org assessing the recent dramatic changes to protest law in the UK. The human rights organisation is calling for the restrictions to be repealed.
- The UK government should repeal anti-democratic protest restrictions and review and publicly account for all protest arrests and convictions made under laws that courts have ruled unlawful. New report @hrw.org, out now ⤵️
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- 'It can now be revealed that most of those clandestine reports were sent to MI5, helping the Security Service to build up large files on peaceful protesters who were engaged in democratic protests for an array of causes'
- The rights and health of UK hunger strikers must be protected to prevent avoidable tragedy - Heba Muraisi – Day 61 T Hoxha – Day 55 Kamran Ahmed – Day 54 Lewie Chiaramello – Day 40 www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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- What happens when the use of UK national security powers involve private actors? In my new paper I argue that, from Palantir to AWS, private companies have increasing access to the UK's most intimidate national security infrastructure - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Palestine Action-linked Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital after a 46 day hunger strike - Qesser will have spent over a year in jail with no trial despite the pre-trial custody limit being 6 months www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Daniella LockSo much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft: nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
- Reposted by Daniella LockTHE STATE OF CRITIQUE Join us to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) tinyurl.com/stateofcritique
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- Lots of reporting that universities are already having meetings with Reform UK. Can't think of a better way to ensure that 1. Reform wins power before even being elected and 2. the overton window has shifted to give way to Reform's worst impulses if it does win the next GE.
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- The Lords have departed from years of restraint in standing up to the Government, to obstruct a manifesto commitment giving workers basic day-one protections. Here is a clear case of constitutional double standards, spurred on by business interests 1/ www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
- Members of Palestine Action challenging proscription will be excluded from parts of their legal proceedings giving the government a huge advantage in the case and creating a process where evidence presented without challenge may 'positively mislead' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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- Thank you to @alangreene.bsky.social for hosting me and @colinmurray.bsky.social on the new Counter Terrorism podcast to talk about the proscription of Palestine Action. It was great to have this chat. The hearings for the full judicial review of the proscription take place on 25-27 November.
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- The Electoral Commission is making enquiries into whether Labour should have declared sponsorship from a series of drinks receptions with businesses under the UK’s political donation rules. on.ft.com/48ogXN1
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- Excellent piece on powers in the Crime and Police Bill to ban face coverings at protests. It argues that such powers 'cannot be squared with the overwhelmingly peaceful nature of contemporary protest in Britain', and shows how they will drastically undermine freedom of expression at protests.
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- These new changes to protest law, related to cumulative disruption, seem to have originally been a Policy Exchange proposal published here: policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
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- Great thread problems of lockin to AWS, due to lack of alternatives. AWS has hosted all of the UK Government's classified data since 2021.
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- Reposted by Daniella LockNEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
- The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation's comments on radio 4 today were worrying. He refers to a potential need for legal changes to enable the banning of protests to alleviate the burden on police for national security reasons, while discussing the defend our juries protest on Saturday.
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- Lobbying at the Labour conference..
- Police arrest 66 people at Palestine Action rally near Labour conference www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- My article 'Backdoor Executive Empowerment' is now available open access published by Legal Studies. The paper identifies 6 mechanisms the last UK Government used to obstruct democratic scrutiny of new changes it introduced to expand executive powers 🧵1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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