http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/dac32d7304bc9af8 https://verfassungsblog.de/counter-terrorism-law-and-free-speech-on-campus/ Counter-Terrorism Law and Free Speech on Campus - Discrimination Law as an Additional Safeguard? Attenborough, Frederick eng 2026-11-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Campus Counter-Terrorism Free Speech Prevent UK radicalisation UK Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 A rare Equality Act 2010 challenge to a referral under Prevent, the UK’s counter-terrorism programme for identifying and responding to suspected signs of radicalisation, has ended with a County Court finding that a school unlawfully discriminated against a Muslim schoolboy. Although a first-instance decision, the ruling has important implications for universities. The case foregrounds a risk inherent in Prevent’s precautionary referral process that the lawful expression of staff and students may be recast as evidence of radicalisation through a linguistic gloss unsupported by the underlying facts.