The use of criminal courts as a platform for political posturing is an abuse of process, the chief magistrate has ruled throwing out a 'vexatious' attempted private prosecution. In International Centre for Justice of Palestinians v A, campaign group ICJP applied for a summons under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 against an unnamed individual of dual British-Israeli nationality serving in the Israeli armed forces.

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Source: Michael Cross

Dismissing the application, Paul Goldspring, chief magistrate for England and Wales, said the attempted prosecution was misconceived in law, evidentially hollow and made 'profound breaches of the duty of candour'.