International Law

Abu Hamza to be extraditied to US

Posted on June 20, 2008
Abu Hamza to be extraditied to USLATEST: Radical cleric Abu Hamza loses court battle against extradition to the US. More details soon...Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has lost his High Court bid against extradition to the US where he faces terror-related charges...

Madeleine McCann: parents' court bid for information

Posted on June 20, 2008
Madeleine McCann: parents' court bid for informationKate and Gerry McCann are to ask a High Court judge to order the release of police documents which they hope will kick-start the search for their missing daughter Madeleine, The Daily Telegraph can disclose...

Little Brother the answer to Big Brother

Posted on June 20, 2008
Little Brother the answer to Big BrotherJustice For Madeleine - Let Her Speak Out campaignThe aim of the campaign as it says on the McCann is just that. We have heard from the McCanns full of worms crawling all over us. Its time to put up or shut up from both sides...

Berlusconi the Godfather of asses makes an ass of the law

Posted on June 19, 2008
Berlusconi the Godfather of asses makes an ass of the lawSilvio Berlusconi suspends his own trial"Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of "disfiguring" Italian democracy for personal advantage after passing a law that will see 100,000 criminal trials ? including his own ? suspended"...

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Shocking pink?

Posted on June 19, 2008
Shocking pink?Homeowner forced to paint her house pink"A homeowner has been forced to paint her picturesque £1 million cottage pink to make it match a nearby property".Surely, this has to be taking things too far?

U Turn?

Posted on June 19, 2008
U Turn?"U" A man who was once called one of the world's most wanted terrorists is to be freed under similar bail conditions which led to the release of al-Qa'eda preacher Abu Qatada.Y?U couldn't make it up, could u?

Doctor I'm in trouble...dearie dearie me

Posted on June 19, 2008
Doctor I'm in trouble...dearie dearie meInternet addiction is a 'clinical disorder'"Obsessive internet use is a public health problem which is so serious it should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder, according to a leading psychiatrist".What do you mean doc? I'm only on it 16 hours a day!Then there is this problem...

Four escape from detention centre

Posted on June 19, 2008
Four escape from detention centre"Four detainees from an Oxfordshire immigration centre are on the run after seven people escaped overnight".Why are we wasting valuable police resources on people who should not be detained in the first place?

Soldier 'died during punishment'

Posted on June 19, 2008
Soldier 'died during punishment'"A soldier collapsed and died of heatstroke while being subjected to an informal Army punishment known as "beasting", a court has heard".Isn't that cap badge the Prince of Wales regiment? In any event, Charlie, and Ma'am, doesn't it make you proud to be British, or German, as the case may be?And to other news...

EU rejects Amber Alert and McCanns to be charged soon

Posted on June 18, 2008
EU rejects Amber Alert and McCanns to be charged soonI don't know what the McCanns are laughing about, because they will be laughing on the other side of their face soon. Firstly, the European Parliament has rejected the McCanns Amber Alert scheme and decided instead to implement 116000, the single EU hotline number for missing children...

Romanian village re-elects dead mayor

Posted on June 18, 2008
Romanian village re-elects dead mayorRomanian villagers have knowingly re-elected a dead man as their mayor, preferring him to his living opponent.I wouldn't give up hope yet Ken Livingstone...

Kate McCann insults the Portuguese public

Posted on June 18, 2008
Kate McCann insults the Portuguese public

MP couple broke expenses rules over flat

Posted on June 18, 2008
MP couple broke expenses rules over flatTory MPs Sir Nicholas and Ann Winterton were today found to have broken Parliamentary expenses rules by claiming rent on a flat they had bought outright.But the Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges accepted that the breach regarding the £700,000 London property was accidental...

Abu Qatada released from prison

Posted on June 17, 2008
Abu Qatada released from prison"The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada has been released from jail.Abu Qatada, 47, was freed from Long Lartin Prison, in Worcestershire, at about 2020 BST after winning his fight against deportation from Britain"."The Palestinian-Jordanian preacher will be subjected to a 22-hour home curfew and tight restrictions on his liberty"...

Queenie's Castle

Posted on June 17, 2008
Queenie's CastleWhen I saw and read this post, it reminded me of two things. Firstly, Queenie's Castle the "raucous Yorkshire sitcom with Diana Dors as a brassy matriarch" set in Quarry Hill Flats in Leeds in the early 1970s. Secondly, that I was disappointed recently not to be able to go to my barrister Flo Krause's civil ceremony with her partner...

'Lyrical terrorist' wins appeal

Posted on June 17, 2008
'Lyrical terrorist' wins appeal"A former Heathrow worker who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" has won an appeal against her conviction.Samina Malik had been accused of collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism...

Professional footballers charged with burglary

Posted on June 17, 2008
Professional footballers charged with burglarySomebody at the Telegraph has a sense of humour naming the photograph twits!It's make up your mind time, gents, goal or gaol?

Put young offenders in "academies"

Posted on June 17, 2008
Put young offenders in "academies"This seems to me to be just child prisons under a different name.

Brown: A step in the right direction

Posted on June 17, 2008
Brown: A step in the right directionKicking MPs pay rises in to touch I feel is a step in the right direction.However, I do not feel it goes far enough. In my opinion, MPS should be forced to repay all the money they fraudulently claimed in expenses.

Branding of criminals is barbaric

Posted on June 16, 2008
Branding of criminals is barbaric"Offenders carrying out community sentences could be forced to wear high-visibility bibs that will mark them out as criminals, part of measures designed to restore public confidence".Recently, we had the case where a prison van was diverted for 120 miles just to take a criminal to court across the road and not expose his handcuffs to the public...

Sikh note?

Posted on June 16, 2008
Sikh note?A Sikh police officer has gone on Sikh leave, suffering from stress, because he is unable to find protective equipment to go over his turban and beard!This madness has so far cost the taxpayers £100,000!

42 days? Try 18 months

Posted on June 16, 2008
42 days? Try 18 monthsBy Evo Morales"This European targeting of illegal immigrants is hypocritical, draconian and undiplomatic".Evo Morales Ayma is the president of the Republic of Bolivia

UK shame and US pride

Posted on June 16, 2008
UK shame and US pride"I was struck by the symbolism of the coincidence. Within a day, the House of Commons passed the 42-day detention clause and the US supreme court decided that Guantánamo detainees did have the right to apply to the federal courts to challenge their detention under habeas corpus...

The argument against 42 days?

Posted on June 16, 2008
The argument against 42 days?Forest Gate anti-terror raid brothers to get £60,000 compensationThe two brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid will receive £60,000 in compensation from Scotland Yard, it emerged last night.Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 25, and Abul Koyair, 23, have been in negotiations with the police for six months...

A stepladder too far...

Posted on June 16, 2008
A stepladder too far...Caretaker who fell off stepladder sues for £50,000 over 'inadequate training'"A school caretaker who was injured falling off a six-foot stepladder is suing his employer for £50,000 claiming he was not trained how to use it properly"...

Alcatraz to open as a hotel

Posted on June 16, 2008
Alcatraz to open as a hotel"For decades it was the island every resident dreamed of escaping from. Now the managers of Alcatraz island, home to one of the world's most notorious prisons, are hoping to cash in on tourists' enduring fascination with it".

The brown vote should not vote for Brown

Posted on June 16, 2008
The brown vote should not vote for BrownLink.

Ian Huntley 'to convert to Islam'

Posted on June 15, 2008
Ian Huntley 'to convert to Islam'"Ian Huntley, the killer of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, is considering converting to Islam, it has been claimed".Yawn!

Riot alert at immigration centre

Posted on June 15, 2008
Riot alert at immigration centreA team of prison officers has helped to restore order at an immigration detention centre after a disturbance."The team, dressed in riot gear, went into Campsfield House in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, to escort detainees back to their rooms, the Home Office said...

Army accused of human rights abuse in case of Iraqis held without trial for five years

Posted on June 15, 2008
Army accused of human rights abuse in case of Iraqis held without trial for five yearsHigh Court to rule on detention of two men held in what lawyers say is a Guantanamo-style legal black hole"Britain is accused of holding Iraqi prisoners of war in a legal black hole after it emerged that two men accused of killing British soldiers have been detained without trial for more than five years...

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