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Colin Port

Who blinked first?

June 17, 2009

The answer is that Colin Port did.
It is one thing grandstanding to the tabloid readers and assorted bigots, quite another to face up to the wrath of three High Court judges.
Hours before Colin Port was due to appear before the Lord Justice Stanley Burnton, Justice Wilkie and Justice Calvert Smith – a trio to strike [...]

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Death rattles from the ongoing Colin Port saga…..

June 11, 2009

John Ozimek in The Register has an exclusive interview today with Jim Bates, the man firmly in the sights of Operation Ore Ire. I am reproducing it in full here for the benefit of those who won’t be reading the ‘other side’ of the story in their daily newspapers.
There are those who say (generally from [...]

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Sublimely Absurd – Police Force apply for Warrant for their Chief Constable!

May 27, 2009

The Colin Port saga gets better and better.
Matters hotted up last week as, according to one legal source close to these matters: “Last Friday the police applied for a warrant against the Chief Constable to enable them to take possession of the computers lawfully. It was seen as a device by the court which refused [...]

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There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.

May 21, 2009

They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning to acquire the same quality.
I wrote on Tuesday of the Chief Constable who was preparing to defy the writ of the High Court in the [...]

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First the Speaker, now the Chief Constable…….

May 19, 2009

It is said of the Law that it is the glue which holds the fabric of society together – if that is so, we are in danger of unravelling fast.
The High Court appears to be losing – or rather ‘relinquishing’ – its authority. If the High Court doesn’t stamp its foot and cry ‘contempt of [...]

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