International Law

North Yorkshire Moors and a meal

Posted on August 11, 2008
North Yorkshire Moors and a mealI can vouch for the moors and the building looks good but I have no idea what the food is like.

Tory councillor nicked for shoplifting

Posted on August 10, 2008
Tory councillor nicked for shoplifting"A Gloucestershire county councillor has resigned his position on the county's police authority after accepting a caution for theft".

Solicitor wins extra wheelie bin case

Posted on August 10, 2008
Solicitor wins extra wheelie bin caseCouncils across Britain could be forced to hand out extra wheelie bins to households after a landmark ruling."Roger Houlker, a solicitor, fought a two-and-a-half-year battle against Congleton Borough Council to prove that he should be given a second bin for his six-bedroom Cheshire home...

Orphan deer treats fox hounds as his family

Posted on August 10, 2008
Orphan deer treats fox hounds as his familyA young orphan deer who was abandoned by his mother has formed an extraordinary relationship with a pack of fox hounds who have become his family.

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Lamb to the slaughter

Posted on August 10, 2008
Lamb to the slaughterBy: Max SzucaMax Szuca relives the nightmare scenario of wrongfully being found guilty of sexual offences, in no small measure due to inadequate legal representationOn 17 November 2006 I was convicted on five counts of sexual assault and one count of gross indecent assault, and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment...

Ombudsman - Peacekeeping over Responsibility?

Posted on August 10, 2008
Ombudsman - Peacekeeping over Responsibility?By: Ben Gunn - HMP Shepton MalletMost of us won't remember the glory days of 1990, filled with smoke, fear, and a tinge of hope for change. The worst riots in our penal history led to the Woolf Report, one of the most sensible and far-reaching inquiries ever conducted into the prison system...

Thin end of the wedge?

Posted on August 10, 2008
Thin end of the wedge?By: John OConnor - LiferLifer John OConnor fears that lessons learnt from the Strangeways Riots will be ignored by the present generation of prison managers.It's been several weeks now since the new increased ?bang-up? hours were introduced to prisons nationally...

Alvi?s fight for justice continues

Posted on August 10, 2008
Alvi?s fight for justice continuesThe Crown Prosecution Service claimed that a pair of gloves were a mobile phone...The jury were shown a pair of jeans which the CPS claimed were stained with the victim's blood. However, forensics in the USA tested the jeans and states it is unlikely that the stain is human blood...

Protest attempt at Olympic event

Posted on August 09, 2008
Protest attempt at Olympic eventA student who tried to unveil a Tibetan flag during the first day of Olympic competition has been removed by officials from an equestrian event."China bans the Tibetan flag from events under rules which prevent the display of flags of countries not competing in the Games"...

Russian jets attack Georgian town

Posted on August 09, 2008
Russian jets attack Georgian townRussian jets have carried out strikes on military targets in the central Georgian town of Gori, close to the breakaway region of South Ossetia.Most of the targets seem to have been military bases, but Georgian officials said a number of civilians had been killed in residential buildings...

'Peeping Tom' rapist imprisoned

Posted on August 09, 2008
'Peeping Tom' rapist imprisonedA rapist who admitted spying on his neighbours by using a camera hidden in their bedroom has been sent to prison for an indefinite period.

David Cameron goes after lame duck Gordon Brown

Posted on August 08, 2008
Warning: Graphic contentDavid Cameron goes after lame duck Gordon BrownA seal has been caught on film chasing, toying with and finally killing an eider duck.

Georgia: Russia enters into 'war' in South Ossetia

Posted on August 08, 2008
Georgia: Russia enters into 'war' in South OssetiaOver 1,300 people are reported dead after Russian forces responded to a Georgian attack on rebels in the breakaway province of South Ossetia by mounting a full scale invasion.Columns of Russian tanks plunged the two neighbours into war as they filed into South Ossetia, marking the Kremlin's first military assault on foreign soil since the Soviet Union's Afghanistan intevention, which ended in 1989...

Conker championships blighted by tree sickness

Posted on August 08, 2008
Conker championships blighted by tree sicknessBy Jon SwaineThe world conker championship could be in jeopardy due to a shortage caused by blighted horse chestnut trees.Organisers of the competition, which is held every year in Ashton, Northants, are struggling to collect the 5,000 healthy conkers they need...

If you think China is a police state, just look at us in Britain

Posted on August 08, 2008
If you think China is a police state, just look at us in BritainBeijing seems to have been turned into one giant Potemkin village. Everybody smiling, everybody happy. The universally joyful welcome has already drawn gasps of admiration and astonishment from visiting British sports journalists...

Blogging Big Brother

Posted on August 08, 2008
Blogging Big BrotherGeorge Orwell would have bloggedGeorge Orwell started keeping a diary on August 9, 1938, and maintained it on a more or less daily basis till shortly before his death in 1950. Now the trustees for the Orwell Prize have decided, 70 years after his first entry, to post the diaries on the internet, a day at a time, an enterprise that should therefore continue till 2019 or 2020.

British crime lords rule £40 billion underworld

Posted on August 08, 2008
British crime lords rule £40 billion underworldA £40 billion underworld economy is dominated by homegrown criminals, with at least 27 ?Mr Bigs? running their empires from inside British jails, The Times has learnt."The Acpo team is concerned at the ease with which inmates can obtain mobile phones...

McCanns not abductor still responsible for Madeleine's disappearance

Posted on August 07, 2008
McCanns not abductor still responsible for Madeleine's disappearanceThe Daily Telegraph has sunk to an all time low with this garbage: Madeleine McCann 'was snatched by paedophile ring to order'. The poor excuse for a journalist called Caroline Gammell concluded that the email "It destroys the PJ's theory that the couple accidentally killed Madeleine and then tried to dispose of her body"...

Tory MP Patrick Mercer suffers from memory loss

Posted on August 07, 2008
Tory MP Patrick Mercer suffers from memory lossWhilst I agree in principle that it is not right for the BNP to sell fake VCs, I was rather amused by this comment from Tory MP Patrick Mercer: "Medals for gallantry and campaigns are absolutely nothing to do with any political party"...

Bin Laden driver could be held by U.S. after sentence

Posted on August 07, 2008
Bin Laden driver could be held by U.S. after sentenceGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (CNN) -- A jury of six military officers Thursday sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to five-and-a-half years in prison after his conviction on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda...

Deaf man killed at blind junction

Posted on August 07, 2008
Deaf man killed at blind junctionThis is a tragic case. The driver of the fire engine failed to take into account that not all road users would be able to hear the two tone siren. In rushing to save human life a human life was lost.Is this the price of human life £750 fine and six penalty points? I don't wish to appear to be too harsh on the fire engine driver, still, I feel that the car driver's estate ought to sue for damages.

Ex-police chief guilty of incest

Posted on August 06, 2008
Ex-police chief guilty of incestA former chief superintendent of Humberside Police has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of raping his daughter.

Police cell condition 'squalid'

Posted on August 06, 2008
Police cell condition 'squalid'A south London police custody suite where immigration detainees are held is "unhygienic and unsafe" and should be closed, a report has said.

Vaulting the great firewall

Posted on August 06, 2008
Vaulting the great firewallChina has temporarily relaxed internet censorship, but democracy activists already know how to bypass the web policeDespite recent reports that restrictions will be lifted on some media and human rights websites, one event in which the Chinese are almost certain to win gold medals in is the internet surveillance and censorship race...

Solitary confinement for 35 years: justice, the American way?

Posted on August 06, 2008
Solitary confinement for 35 years: justice, the American way?Their convictions have been overturned and the US press is watching, but Woodfox and Wallace are still in prisonWhat keeps a man locked up in an American prison, not only when the evidence against him is so poor that the head of the United States house judiciary committee takes a specific interest and mainstream US media start to take note but also, more importantly, when his conviction has been overturned?

Cybercrime: Spanish hacker jailed for sending out ex-manager's private emails

Posted on August 06, 2008
Cybercrime: Spanish hacker jailed for sending out ex-manager's private emailsA hacker has been jailed for two years in Spain for revealing hundreds of private emails written by a former colleague. The emails, which were taken from the former manager's work computer, divulged details of his sex life...

Barry George to be hounded by the authorities

Posted on August 05, 2008
Barry George to be hounded by the authoritiesIt was more convenient for the authorities had Barry George not been successful with his appeal against the conviction for the murder of Jill Dando. That is, they could have simply locked him up and thrown away the key...

Ex-Tory admits harassment charges

Posted on August 05, 2008
Ex-Tory admits harassment chargesA former Tory candidate has pleaded guilty to a campaign of harassment against his Liberal Democrat rivals.One less nasty individual in the Nasty Party.

Duncan Campbell is too unassuming in George case

Posted on August 04, 2008
Duncan Campbell is too unassuming in George caseDuncan Campbell in the Guardian, on the Barry George case, entitles his piece "Assume nothing" and it is subtitled "Barry George's acquittal reminds us that the days of miscarriages of justice are far from over"...

Diego Garcia: the UK's shame

Posted on August 04, 2008
Diego Garcia: the UK's shameDespite the denials, Britain is complicit in America's secret detentions on an Indian Ocean islandIn both the UK and US the governments are supposed to be answerable to the electorate. It is not acceptable that they both claim ignorance in relation to torturing or facilitating torture.

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