International Law

Government to criminalise the unemployed

Posted on July 21, 2008
Government to criminalise the unemployedThe government is to unveil plans to treat the unemployed in the same manner as those convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to community service orders and undergoing punishment. That is, force them to pick up litter and clean up graffiti...

McCanns are guilty

Posted on July 21, 2008
McCanns are guiltyLink to the story and the Final Report and evidence against the McCanns.

McCanns not cleared for lack of evidence

Posted on July 21, 2008
McCanns not cleared for lack of evidenceI question the Attorney-General of Portugal, do you want your country to be the laughingstock of Europe? Think again and reopen the case. They have enough evidence of child neglect.They have enough evidence that there was no break in...

Why has the village of Rothley got so many idiots?

Posted on July 21, 2008
Why has the village of Rothley got so many idiots?"I think they (the Portugese police) didn't have any options so they took the easy option and accused them".Doh!

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Prisoners should be allowed mobile phones and internet access

Posted on July 21, 2008
Prisoners should be allowed mobile phones and internet accessWhilst I can understand the Prison Service seeking to crackdown on the supply of drugs going into prison, there is a wider issue here about the use of mobile phones by prisoners.Recently, it emerged that prisoners were being charged 70% more than phone users outside by BT for phoning home...

Association of Prison Lawyers

Posted on July 20, 2008
Association of Prison LawyersLawyers practising Prison Law are to form an associationWith the knowledge of an association of lawyers being formed, who practice prison law, Inside Time asked Rikki Garg, Chairman of the Steering Group, to explain what had prompted this initiative...

Child plays truant: jail the mother

Posted on July 19, 2008
Child plays truant: jail the motherA mother has been jailed for two months for repeatedly failing to stop her child playing truant from school.Is this the right answer to the problem? I don't think it is, but I don't know what the right answer is.

Another copper deposit found in Wales

Posted on July 19, 2008
Another copper deposit found in WalesA police officer who was cleared of wrongdoing after punching a woman while trying to arrest her has died after being found in north Wales.Remember this one?

Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair given suspended sentence

Posted on July 19, 2008
Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair given suspended sentenceThe country's most senior Asian officer has suspended an employment tribunal claim in which he had accused the Metropolitan Police of racism.

Perhaps, I'll burn the house down to keep warm?

Posted on July 19, 2008
Perhaps, I'll burn the house down to keep warm?Millions of UK households are paying energy tariffs that are "unjust", the Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has said.Tell me about it! There is nothing just about fuel poverty. I don't know what I am going to do come Winter...

Jesus swept

Posted on July 19, 2008
Jesus sweptVacuum in the work place? Nah, sweep it under the carpet..."I've been using a broom since Jesus's old man was a carpenter".Don't you dare move it's against Health and Safety laws...

Belief and tradition have their place but road safety must come first

Posted on July 19, 2008
Belief and tradition have their place but road safety must come firstRoad safety laws are against Amish religious beliefs! Whatever next?

Waste not want not leave it all over the place

Posted on July 19, 2008
Waste not want not leave it all over the placeThe street outside my house is littered with full and overfull dustbins since last Wednesday, when the dustbin men refused to empty them because they were on strike. I have seen piles of rubbish dumped in the little park at the back of my house as people are forced to take action to clear away what they have paid council tax for...

Nelson Mandela: Happy 90th birthday

Posted on July 18, 2008
Nelson Mandela: Happy 90th birthdayMandela: a man of all the peopleHe makes the likes of Margaret Thatcher pale into insignificance.

Baa bum bugger...

Posted on July 18, 2008
Baa bum bugger...The Telegraph is reporting that a man has been arrested for sex attacks on sheep.And there was me thinking it was just a joke about what they get up to in Wales...

Mark Leech - the "prison reformer"

Posted on July 18, 2008
Mark Leech - the "prison reformer"By Ben GunnHow do you wind up an egomaniac? Ask Mark Leech... All I did was ask if he was a little too close to the Prison Service, and he went nuclear. Little old me gets plastered across a whole page of his Converse paper, and he entertained my mates by summoning the whole weight of his intellect to call me an idiot, liar, ignorant, malicious and - my favourite - full of shit...

Mark Leech: once a conman always a conman

Posted on July 18, 2008
Mark Leech: once a conman always a conman There is an old saying in prison that goes like this: "Once a con, always a con". It may have had its origin in the abbreviation for convict, however, I have always understood it to mean once a conman always a conman...

David Green and the Times: Prison doesn't work why don't you admit it?

Posted on July 18, 2008
David Green and the Times: Prison doesn't work why don't you admit it?The simpleton, David Green, the director of the think-tank Civitas, is claiming that prison works and the failing is that we won't admit it. Stupid boy! His argument goes like this, whilst prisoners are inside they are not committing crimes outside therefore prison works...

Clash of the Titans

Posted on July 18, 2008
Clash of the TitansSmaller prisons work better ? but that hasn't stopped the government forging ahead with its plans for mega-jailsIf society wishes not to improve the Criminal Justice System, and see re-offending rates go through the roof, and waste billions of taxpayers money for no good purpose, then it will do well to ignore this call to stop the government in its tracks...

It maybe a gas but this isn't funny

Posted on July 18, 2008
It maybe a gas but this isn't funnyThe Guardian is reporting Gas prices 'could rise 70%'I am fuming. Two x 25% rises last year, 1 x 17% rise this year, and a proposed rise of another 70%! The government must compensate the poor for this totally unacceptable position...

Tory pays for his bit on the side out of expenses

Posted on July 17, 2008
Tory pays for his bit on the side out of expensesThis is beyond a joke when a Tory MP is allowed to fund his infidelity and pay for his mistress out of taxpayer funded expenses!I wonder how many MPs pay for prostitutes on expenses?

Youth Crime Action Plan is like Ikea flat pack with pieces missing

Posted on July 17, 2008
Youth Crime Action Plan is like Ikea flat pack with pieces missingGiven that the state has published the Youth Crime Action Plan, it is hardly surprising that Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust has found that the state leaves out its own failings...

The result of knee-jerk legislation

Posted on July 17, 2008
The result of knee-jerk legislationTough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. The solution? You will be banned from owning more than one mobile phone! Er? And how do you propose to enforce that?

MPs reveal mental health problems

Posted on July 16, 2008
MPs reveal mental health problemsAlmost a fifth of MPs have suffered mental health problems at some time, a survey suggests.The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health also found that 86% thought being an MP was stressful.The report criticises the law forcing MPs to give up their seats for life if they are sectioned for six months under the Mental Health Act.

The idea of imposing an indiscriminate curfew on kids is grotesque

Posted on July 16, 2008
The idea of imposing an indiscriminate curfew on kids is grotesque'I have a distasteful vision of the police riding around the streets of English towns and cities rounding up youngsters'Marcel BerlinsIn the Youth Crime Action Plan, published today by the government, the bit I find the most worrying is not one of the main ones...

Defending the fifth estate

Posted on July 16, 2008
Defending the fifth estateUnity at the Ministry of Truth has posted a good piece on libel laws...Britain?s libel laws have long been a national disgrace. In the Internet age they have now become an international scandal, raising sufficient concerns amongst our American cousins that Senator Joe Lieberman (Ind) and Representative Peter King (Rep) have found it necessary to introduce new legislation into the US Congress to protect the freedom of speech that the US affords it citizens under the First Amendment from the rampant growth in libel tourism engendered by our own laws...

Youth crime plan to be unveiled

Posted on July 15, 2008
Youth crime plan to be unveiledThe government is to set out its first ever cross-departmental youth crime action plan for England and Wales.It is expected to extend the targeting of parents and children who cause most anti-social behaviour.

'First Guantanamo video' released

Posted on July 15, 2008
'First Guantanamo video' releasedA videotape of a detainee being questioned at the US' Guantanamo Bay prison camp has been released for the first time.It shows 16-year-old Omar Khadr being asked by Canadian officials in 2003 about events leading up to his capture by US forces, Canadian media say...

Maze row 'harming development'

Posted on July 15, 2008
Maze row 'harming development'Failure to agree a plan for the former Maze prison is jeopardising future development opportunities, NI Secretary Shaun Woodward has said.Sinn Féin will not support the plans for a national stadium unless the County Antrim site includes a conflict transformation centre...

British man in Ghana jail appeal

Posted on July 15, 2008
British man in Ghana jail appealA British man is appealing against a conviction in Ghana for indecently assaulting a three-year-old girl.Thomas Tichler, 57, a retired banker from Hertfordshire, was jailed for two years in February.The charity Fair Trials International has disputed the medical evidence used to convict him and says the girl was too young to give evidence...

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