I spent this morning in the public gallery of one of Wycombe’s Magistrates’ courts. What I saw could have been a study for the Centre for Social Justice. What I witnessed today included the following cases (I dispense with the details for obvious reasons): Casual theft by a man with […]
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans defends ‘torture intelligence’ – Times Online
Via MI5 chief Jonathan Evans defends ‘torture intelligence’ – Times Online , we learn the MI5 chief’s position on complicity with torture: The Director General of MI5 has issued a powerful defence of Britain’s co-operation with intelligence agencies in America and other countries accused of the abuse and torture of […]
Read MorePolice cannot be trusted with fines, magistrates warn – Telegraph
Via Police cannot be trusted with fines, magistrates warn – Telegraph: Police cannot be trusted to hand out summary justice and will act as “judge and jury” if given powers to issue more on-the-spot fines, magistrates have warned. In an extraordinary attack, the Magistrates’ Association said it is a “certainty” that […]
Read MoreExtradition without justice | Anita Coles | guardian.co.uk
Via Extradition without justice | Anita Coles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk : Liberty believes, as did the UK parliament for many years, that no one should be extradited unless and until the requesting country makes out a basic case against them in a UK court. Failure on this […]
Read MoreBBC NEWS | UK | First trial without jury approved
The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, made legal history by agreeing to allow the trial to be heard by a judge alone. It […]
Read MoreLiberty: The fight that is never done
Yesterday, I heard someone support control orders. This video from Liberty seems an apposite response: And on 10 Jun 2009, via Liberty responds to control order judgment. Today the House of Lords ruled unanimously that the government has violated Article 6 of the Human Rights Act which protects the right […]
Read MoreDominic Grieve QC MP on citizens and the state
The opening panel discussion at the Convention on Modern Liberty is now available online. Dominic Grieve speaks passionately and encouragingly from 3:55 on the finite limits on state power, social justice, quality of life and British collusion in torture: A great speech from a great man.
Read MoreCSJ — “Locked Up Potential”
From the preface to “Locked Up Potential”, another first-class report from the Centre For Social Justice.: Even when someone is sent to prison, the government fails in its mission to reduce crime because of the spectacular failure of prisons to rehabilitate offenders – work that should be the heartbeat of the […]
Read MoreMalevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman – Times Online
The nation’s dreams are troubled, sometimes; dim rumours reach our sleeping ears, rumours that all is not well in the administration of justice; but an ancient spell murmurs through our somnolence, and we remember that the courts are bound to seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the […]
Read MoreDominic Grieve calls for fresh thinking on multiculturalism as he condemns a decade of political correctness
Dominic Grieve, the shadow Justice secretary, will today make a hard-hitting attack on political correctness and the Government’s failure to question damaging aspects of multiculturalism. But he also admits that the Right has so far failed to credibly address some of those issues. Speaking at Queen Mary, University of London, […]
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