International Law

A and E Winehouse

Posted on July 28, 2008
A&E Winehouse"Trouble singer Amy Winehouse has been admitted to the accident and emergency unit of a London hospital". An ambulance was called to the 24-year-old singer's house in Camden, north London and she was taken to University College Hospital at around 8...

Dog appears in Indian court charged with biting

Posted on July 28, 2008
Dog appears in Indian court charged with bitingA seven-year old mongrel has appeared in a local court in India's eastern Bihar state charged with breaching the peace by barking at passers-by and even biting some of them.One poor old mongrel spent nearly 10 years in prison in India!I am very tempted to ask that my dog Rocky attends my Crown Court hearing on September 8 as it is alleged that he bit a Park Warden...

Labour should engage in a which hunt not a witch hunt

Posted on July 28, 2008
Labour should engage in a which hunt not a witch huntWho could replace Gordon Brown ought to be where the energies go within the Labour Party rather than waste them on a witch hunt for any plotters who desire to unseat him in an undignified manner.What makes the Derby such an interesting race is that a complete outsider can win...

My advice is to take a holiday where The Sun don't shine

Posted on July 28, 2008
My advice is to take a holiday where The Sun don't shineConservativeHome is reporting that David Cameron is relaxed on holiday with his wife Samantha. And, notes that the Sun has photos to prove this. Call me cynical, but this just looks like a photo opportunity to me...

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Lazy sunny Sunday afternoon...

Posted on July 27, 2008
Lazy sunny Sunday afternoon...The heatwave is continuing here in Hull, so this is what I intend to do...Meanwhile...Gordon Brown is up Shit Creek, in a canoe, without a paddle. Perhaps, the best thing he can do now is a disappearing act in Panama? A sort of John Stonehouse meets John Darwin...

Pc convicted of assaulting child

Posted on July 26, 2008
Pc convicted of assaulting childA police officer has been convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old boy at a Manchester police station.This thug was charged with upholding the law and not a licence to take the law into his own hands. Because he lied at least 3 times he should have the book thrown at him.

Prisons: Shopping the kids

Posted on July 26, 2008
Prisons: Shopping the kidsSimon Hattenstone meets the parents who turn their children over to the policeSusan Taylor says it took her about five minutes to realise the worst of it. She arrived home, opened the door, turned off the alarm and discovered her laptop at the top of the stairs with a cord trailing, and a kitchen chair in the hall...

Cornish pasty in European battle for protected status

Posted on July 26, 2008
Cornish pasty in European battle for protected statusThe Cornish pasty could get protected status from the European Union to safeguard the savoury pastry for the county. "The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced it will take the Cornish Pasty Association's (CPA) application for Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to Brussels...

Barrister who defended terror suspects appointed director of public prosecutions

Posted on July 26, 2008
Barrister who defended terror suspects appointed director of public prosecutionsA human rights barrister who won a House of Lords case which resulted in terrorist control orders being declared illegal has been appointed the country's top prosecutor."Keir Starmer QC, who has played a key role in a number of cases against the Government, will take over when Sir Ken Macdonald steps down as director of public prosecutions at the end of October"...

Charges for former Tory candidate

Posted on July 25, 2008
Charges for former Tory candidateThe former Tory parliamentary candidate for Watford has been charged with harassment and criminal damage after a police investigation.Ian Oakley was charged with five counts of criminal damage and two counts of harassment of Liberal Democrats in the Hertfordshire town...

Painter fined for smoking in his own van

Posted on July 25, 2008
Painter fined for smoking in his own vanA painter and decorator has been fined £30 for smoking in his own van because it was deemed to be a workplace.Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy teabags for his wife when he incurred the on-the-spot fine...

Ministers 'duped by US' over Guantanamo inmate's torture claim

Posted on July 25, 2008
Ministers 'duped by US' over Guantanamo inmate's torture claimThe Government faces accusations that it has been duped by the US military after Foreign Office officials claimed that a UK resident held for four years in Guantanamo Bay without contact with other prisoners was not being kept in solitary confinement...

Corrupt Tory vows to fight to keep his seat

Posted on July 25, 2008
Corrupt Tory vows to fight to keep his seatI agree with David Cameron that the theft of taxpayers money by Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton is indefensible. And yet, this pair of Tory crooks are doing precisely that trying to defend the indefensible. It does not help matters when "the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner found that Sir Nicholas and his wife Ann, the MP for Congleton, had "unknowingly" broken parliamentary rules by claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for a house on which they had already paid off the mortgage"...

Get on yer bike...I mean broomstick

Posted on July 24, 2008
Get on yer bike...I mean broomstickDavid Cameron is to learn how to ride a broomstick after his bike is stolen outside Tesco...At least now, for awhile, he won't be riding through any more red lights...

Baby separated from her mother by police separated from commonsense

Posted on July 24, 2008
Baby separated from her mother by police separated from commonsenseGingersnaps gets on her soap box about the Berry Hill police department response to a pregnant woman about to give birth and how a minor traffic violation led to her human rights being violated...

UN alarmed over Congo prison hunger deaths

Posted on July 24, 2008
UN alarmed over Congo prison hunger deathsThe United Nations says it is alarmed by the number of deaths in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.At least 26 inmates have died from acute malnutrition at the main prison in the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai Oriental province since February...

NZ judge orders 'odd' name change

Posted on July 24, 2008
NZ judge orders 'odd' name changeA judge in New Zealand made a young girl a ward of court so that she could change the name she hated - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii."Officials had blocked Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit, he said, but Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay had been allowed"...

Streams of consciousness

Posted on July 24, 2008
Streams of consciousnessI first published this as a comment over at Liberal Conspiracy blog. It was largely off topic, still I think it deserves a wider audience so I have republished it here.It was no secret before, nobody thought to ask. I don?t troll...

Tory held over sex act in loo

Posted on July 24, 2008
Tory held over sex act in looA TORY councillor was arrested for gross indecency after he was allegedly caught in a sex act with a man in a loo.Robert Benson, 41, was taken to a police station and charged with engaging in sexual activity in a public toilet...

Terror police detain disabled boy

Posted on July 23, 2008
Terror police detain disabled boyA police force has apologised after a disabled child and his parents were detained at a Channel crossing point under the Terrorism Act.The white couple with the mixed race disabled child were accused of child trafficking...

Pc killer wins life term appeal

Posted on July 23, 2008
Pc killer wins life term appealA former US marine who murdered a policeman has won an appeal against his "whole life" prison sentence...The American, 42, was told he will now serve a minimum of 37 years in jail.Given his age, and the fact that he must serve a minimum 37 years before being considered for release, in other words, the Parole Board can decide he must serve longer, this is really a hollow victory and a waste of time and money...

Inmates 'sleeping in toilet area'

Posted on July 22, 2008
Inmates 'sleeping in toilet area'Some prisoners are living and sleeping in toilets because of jail overcrowding, a report says.HM Inspectorate of Prisons found Doncaster jail held almost 200 more inmates than it had been intended for.Two-man cells had been turned into three-man cells by putting an extra bed in the toilet area...

£2bn jail expansion not based on 'solid foundations'

Posted on July 22, 2008
£2bn jail expansion not based on 'solid foundations'A £2.3 billion prison building programme to provide 10,500 extra spaces is not based on ?solid foundations?, according to a critical Commons committee report published today.The Government is accused of a ?risky strategy? by focusing on spending large amounts on more jail spaces, including three Titan prisons each holding 2,500 inmates...

Ice cream vans threatened by new noise restrictions

Posted on July 22, 2008
Ice cream vans threatened by new noise restrictionsThe jingling tunes of the ice cream van, a sound that epitomises summer, are to be curtailed by council bosses because they are too noisy.

Husbands who kill wives can no longer claim they were provoked

Posted on July 22, 2008
Husbands who kill wives can no longer claim they were provokedHusbands who kill nagging wives will no longer be able to claim they were provoked, under a radical shake-up of the murder laws.Suspects will also be prevented from pleading not guilty to murder by claiming it was a "crime of passion" because their partner was having an affair...

Judge breached restraining order against ex-wife and her boyfriend

Posted on July 22, 2008
Judge breached restraining order against ex-wife and her boyfriendA judge has been sentenced to 50 hours community service after he admitted breaching a restraining order imposed following a campaign of harassment against his ex-wife and her boyfriend...

How many Liberal Conspiracy readers does it take to change a light bulb?

Posted on July 22, 2008
How many Liberal Conspiracy readers does it take to change a light bulb?57. comment by jailhouselawyerHow many Liberal Conspiracy readers does it take to change a light bulb?58. comment by Leon1000,1 to change it and the other 999 to boycott the way it was changed...

Saddam Hussein's Rolls Royce put up for sale in eBay

Posted on July 22, 2008
Saddam Hussein's Rolls Royce put up for sale in eBayA convertible Rolls Royce reputedly owned by Saddam Hussein has gone up for sale on eBay."The maroon Corniche sports car has a price tag of £185,000 and comes with papers confirming its ownership by the tyrannical former Iraqi leader...

Tim Ireland and Iain Dale music to your ears

Posted on July 22, 2008
Tim Ireland and Iain Dale music to your earsPolice: Every breath you take...It's about a stalker...

Budget cuts threaten to slow miscarriage of justice reviews

Posted on July 21, 2008
Budget cuts threaten to slow miscarriage of justice reviewsVictims of miscarriages of justice will have to wait longer for their cases to be examined because of annual cuts of £300,000 in the budget of the organisation that investigates them, it emerged yesterday...

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