legal system

Abuse of Process.

May 25, 2010

I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into comforting thoughts of the innocent few days we had spent at Oléron . I refer, of course, to the stupendously misjudged prosecution of two children for the technical attempted rape [...]

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Tonga v. Scotland – the rematch.

April 7, 2010

The Attorney-General is at the heart of our legal system, in the domestic sphere she is the law, the government’s chief legal adviser, and in charge of supervising all prosecutions. There is no higher authority. When Patricia Scotland, the current Attorney-General, was a junior Home Office minister, she helped to bring in the Asylum and [...]

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