Initially I was concerned about the proposals to use a Royal Charter for the recognition of a press regulator. However, the proposal in detail puts some control on the changes to the charter (essentially so that contentious changes would not go through). Hence, it does seem to have merits as a process. It introduces a new constitutional process which is like statute, but with a super majority. I am not sure it is essential as the real problem has been the failure of the police to investigate and prosecute crimes, but it is better than statute.
The link is in Russian about the imprisonment of Norman Scarth who is actually 85. He has a complex history including a court hearing which found that he used a chainsaw to fight off bailiffs when he was 75. [a court judgment which is disputed see comments] However, that does not justify imprisoning him for 6 months for recording a court hearing (see the link and ask google to translate it if your Russian is not up to it).
It has got into the Argyll News
Because he has been held such that people cannot get to him to sign paperwork an application for a writ of Habeas Corpus was made today. This has been adjourned until next week.
The English judicial system is really not good at responding to major abuses of human rights by the judicial system.
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personally i find it entirely irrelevant how much talcing powder they plant under the victims bed or how many people he has murdered....when suspected pigyobs break in, beat up and abduct....i can't even find any evidence that ANTONE has actually been arrested since mid 1990s...
arrest means admitting that you know who you are for a start, it also means admittedly that you're employer as police officer, browncoat or tarffic warden (?) it involves showing evidence of that like identification and it does at the very least involve accusing the vic of soemthing that is illegal.....when was the last time that actually happened?
certainly doesn't involving violent attacking of people and destruction to property...
bloody hell, you know things are desperaate when u have to wait for the Italians to show how to do it...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/us-italy-rendition-verdict-idUSBRE91B0OS20130212