The UK’s counterterrorism framework was thoroughly reviewed over a three-year period (2022–2025) by the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy, and Practice. The research assesses current policies’ efficacy, proportionality, and democratic integrity based on feedback from more than 200 experts and stakeholders. It highlights important issues, such as imprecise legal definitions, hazy limits in the Prevent approach, and inadequate supervision, and it makes 113 recommendations in 18 chapters. Narrowing the definition of terrorism, changing Prevent into a more comprehensive safeguarding approach, improving accountability and transparency in law enforcement and prosecutions, defending rights in closed material proceedings, and striking a balance between security and humanitarian access are a few of these. The paper promotes a counterterrorism system that is more logical, respects human rights, and is trusted by the community.
