Law

Cleaning up the Internet? – Audio

May 16, 2012
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This is a 10 minute clip of a conversation about the blocking of ‘unacceptable’ material on the Internet, on Radio 4′s You and Yours. It highlights some of the relevant questions quite well. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The conversation is about campaigners demanding that filtering of internet feeds for ‘unacceptable’ material be [...]

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Archbishop Cranmer and the ASA Holes

May 12, 2012
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The Advertising Standards Authority has received a series of complaints about the above Coalition for Marriage advert running on Archbishop Cranmer’s weblog. The complaints are about the claimed 70% figure for support for traditional marriage being wrong, that the advert is homophobic, and that some people are alleging that they are offended. The COMRES poll summary [...]

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The Metropolitan Thought Police

April 30, 2012
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A strange incident, but not unfamiliar. A policeman goes past an art gallery in Mayfair on a bus, and sees the artwork above through the window. The policeman decided that it might be dodgy, and alerted the Station. The Station duly sent two Officers around, who told the gallery that they might be promoting bestiality, [...]

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Free Will and Social Services.

April 29, 2012

The Lord Chancellor, as he was fondly known and had been for about 1400 years, until Tony Blair sought to distance himself from the wallpapering disaster known as Derry Irvine, devising a system of Kremlin-lite titles until finally settling on Secretary of State for Justice, originated as the King’s conscience. The man of letters and [...]

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Update – Portuguese Justice – Graham Mitchell.

March 23, 2012

The Portuguese have a proverb – ‘Águas quietas são profundas’ – ‘Still waters run deep’; nowhere is this more apt than in their judicial system. Whilst it might appear to the uninitiated that nothing has been happening in the case of Graham Mitchell, Briton, acquitted of all charges, handed back his passport after a year [...]

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Portuguese Trial by Media – Graham Mitchell and the EAW.

March 21, 2012

The foetid waters surrounding the European Arrest Warrant for ‘First Degree Murder’ issued in respect of Graham Mitchell grow murkier by the minute. Late last night I received an e-mail from a prominent Portuguese journalist asking for my help to contact Graham Mitchell, it contained some potentially very interesting information. I picked up the phone [...]

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Exclusive – Update on the Portuguese European Arrest Warrant.

March 13, 2012
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Oh dear, oh dear. I would not want to take anything away from Mr Jörling’s achievement in making the most of his life after his tragic injury in Portugal, nor do I seek to make fun of him whatsoever. But as a ‘murder victim’ he leaves a lot to be desired – he doesn’t even [...]

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