{"id":1675,"date":"2017-03-09T05:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:42:50","slug":"jewish-censors-close-in-on-jez-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Censors close in on Jez Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CPS weighs prosecution of far-right activist on eve of legal challenge<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Campaign Against Antisemitism challenges CPS decision not to charge Jeremy Bedford-Turner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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    The Crown Prosecution Service is reconsidering whether to prosecute a far-right activist for alleged antisemitism on the eve of a highly unusual legal challenge to its decision to let the case drop.<\/p>\n

    Government lawyers were due at the high court in London on Wednesday for judicial review proceedings brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The case challenged the CPS decision not to charge a prominent far-right activist, Jeremy Bedford-Turner, for allegedly making antisemitic comments at a demonstration in July 2015.<\/p>\n

    A judge in the judicial review proceedings said in January that the case raised \u201cpotentially important issues for society in this growing area of racist and religious hate crime\u201d.<\/p>\n

    But on Monday the CPS announced that, following advice from its barristers, it would not argue the case and would instead have a more senior lawyer within the CPS re-examine whether Bedford-Turner should face criminal charges, paying particular attention to section 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), known as the \u201cabuse clause\u201d.<\/p>\n

    The CPS originally examined the allegations against Bedford-Turner for five months, but decided in December 2015 a jury was unlikely to convict him of incitement to religious or racial hatred.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe have agreed that the prosecutor\u2019s original decision not to charge should be reviewed by a more senior lawyer within the CPS,\u201d a spokesman said. \u201cThis decision follows the receipt of new advice from counsel concerning the way in which ECHR issues were considered as part of the decision-making in December 2015. It would be inappropriate to comment further on the case at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Gideon Falter, chair of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said the government had shown \u201ccomplete intransigence\u201d until the last minute: \u201cThey\u2019ve waited until the 11th hour to stand down on it. For me this is astounding, because they\u2019ve conceded unequivocally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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