International Law

It's oh so quiet...

Posted on January 28, 2009
It's oh so quiet...I have visited my usual haunts, news sites and blogs, but failed to find anything which is deserving of a post. However, I have been thinking about ripping into this idiot Daniel Kawczynski MP and correcting both him and Speaker Martin in relation to Police Powers...

Debate:Prisoners right to vote

Posted on January 28, 2009
Debate:Prisoners right to vote"Background and Context of Debate:Many countries restrict the right of those sentenced to imprisonment to vote in elections. For example, convicted prisoners are automatically banned from voting in Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Luxemburg, Romania, Russia and the United Kingdom...

Prisoners: Voting ? Question

Posted on January 28, 2009
Prisoners: Voting ? QuestionHouse of Lords debatesMonday, 15 December 20082:36 pmLord Pannick (Crossbench) Link to this | Hansard sourceTo ask Her Majesty's Government why they have not implemented the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v United Kingdom of 6 October 2005 that the disenfranchisement for parliamentary and local government elections of all prisoners is a breach of Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights...

Lord Bach(side) because he talks out of his arse

Posted on January 28, 2009
Lord Bach(side) because he talks out of his arseThe charge:"Lord Bach (Lords in Waiting, HM Household; Labour) My Lords, I cannot give any guarantee to the noble Lord, sympathetic though I am to him usually. I cannot do any better than quote what my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer of Thoroton, then the Lord Chancellor, said in the foreword to the first document that was published on this in December 2006:"Successive UK Governments have held to the view that the right to vote forms part of the social contract between individuals and the State, and that loss of the right to vote, reflected in the current law, is a proper and proportionate punishment for breaches of the social contract that resulted in imprisonment"...

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That's alright then: but what are these hairs in the palm of my hands?

Posted on January 27, 2009
That's alright then: but what are these hairs in the palm of my hands?Masturbation can be good for the over-50sRelated link...Do You Have Hairy Palms?

Gordon Brown leads the race to run Britain to ruin

Posted on January 27, 2009
Gordon Brown leads the race to run Britain to ruinJust when you need a bus there isn't one in sight...

Jailhouse lawyer denied medical appliance to block his law suits

Posted on January 27, 2009
Jailhouse lawyer denied medical appliance to block his law suitsBy Dr. B. Cayenne BirdAn important part of the present prison reform should be oversight and protection of the jail house lawyers, paralegals and whistle blowers who exercise their rights while incarcerated...

Jailhouse lawyer under investigation

Posted on January 27, 2009
Jailhouse lawyer under investigationThe saga of jailhouse lawyer Michael Ray, the feel-good movie legal story of the year, has run up against a new antagonist: South Carolina?s Attorney General Henry McMaster. According to this AP story, the authorities are investigating Ray, who helped a fellow inmate win Supreme Court review of his drug possession case, for practicing law without a license...

Wrong answer Mr Obama

Posted on January 27, 2009
Wrong answer Mr ObamaWhat happened to America on 9/11 was undoubtedly a tragedy. Unfortunately, America's response is a travesty of justice, the opening and operating Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners detained there, given the large scale breaches of human and civil rights, must be set free and paid compensation for the state abuse...

Dawn Butler has official car taken away and is now On The Buses

Posted on January 27, 2009
Dawn Butler has official car taken away and is now On The BusesA Ron and John production.

Exclusive: Latest English version of the Lords Prayer

Posted on January 27, 2009
Exclusive: Latest English version of the Lords PrayerOur Lord, who art in the House of Lords,Dishonest be thy Name.Thy bribe will come.Hopefully, thy will be done,In court, and not by thy brethren.Give us this day our Sunday Times.And forgive us our undercover reporters...

Royal Mail involved in unlawful collective punishment

Posted on January 27, 2009
Royal Mail involved in unlawful collective punishmentRoyal Mail bosses have defended a decision to suspend deliveries to a Bradford street after a postman was attacked by a dog.The delivery ban started after an incident involving a bull mastif on Penfield Grove, Bradford...

Prison reformed?

Posted on January 27, 2009
Prison reformed?The former Abingdon Gaol looks set to be turned into apartments and restaurants after planners gave their approval to the redevelopment.The jail was built in 1811 and was turned into a leisure centre in 1974 before closing in 2002.Plans to convert it have been controversial with many local people who wanted more community space...

Mother wins drive ban law change

Posted on January 27, 2009
Mother wins drive ban law changeA Teesside mother, whose daughter was killed by a drink-driver, has helped win a change in the law on bans served by jailed motorists.Jan Woodward's daughter Kelly, 19, from Billingham, near Stockton, was killed by a speeding driver who was twice over the legal drink-drive limit in 2005...

I wonder if I still have that birthday card the Krays sent me?

Posted on January 27, 2009
I wonder if I still have that birthday card the Krays sent me?Personal possessions of notorious gangsters the Kray twins have fetched more than £100,000 at auction."One of Ronnie's oil paintings, Crucifixion, which was given to a guard at Parkhurst prison, sold for £4,800"...

Does Rebekah Wade editor of the Sun think it is April Fools Day?

Posted on January 27, 2009
Does Rebekah Wade editor of the Sun think it is April Fools Day?The Sun editor, Rebekah Wade, last night used her first public speech to warn that only good journalism could save the newspaper industry from the recession.Rolls on floor with laughter....

A bad law?

Posted on January 26, 2009
A bad law?Go read for yourselves over at Cynical Chatter from the Underworld.

Sara Payne to become Government's first Victims' Commissioner

Posted on January 26, 2009
Sara Payne to become Government's first Victims' CommissionerThe mother of a murdered schoolgirl is to become the Government's first Victims' Commissioner.Sara Payne will represent the interests of those affected by crime and will have an office at the Ministry of Justice...

Try this for comedy: prison policy run by clowns

Posted on January 26, 2009
Try this for comedy: prison policy run by clownsThe arts are a valuable tool in prisoner rehabilitation. Jack Straw should know better than to fly into a panic and ban themBy Libby PurvesHeard the one about the Justice Secretary who got frightened by a newspaper? He took too many tabloids...

Tree house

Posted on January 26, 2009
Tree house

President Obama and the First Lady Dawn Butler

Posted on January 26, 2009
President Obama and the First Lady Dawn ButlerIdeas by JailhouselawyerPhotoshops by RonKnee

A jailhouse lawyer leaves the District Attorney with egg on his face

Posted on January 25, 2009
A jailhouse lawyer leaves the District Attorney with egg on his faceSuppose we have a jailhouse lawyer, who sues the local sheriff and district attorney for alleged civil rights violations. Suppose, just after filing that suit, the jailhouse lawyer gets into a fight with deputy sheriff jailers, and comes out on the losing end...

The economic climate made me think of this song

Posted on January 25, 2009
The economic climate made me think of this song

Raccoon rescued from town garden

Posted on January 25, 2009
Raccoon rescued from town garden A raccoon has been rescued from a tree in a garden in Dorset after a surprised couple found it while birdwatching.Just an unusual tit bit...

A shameful war: Israel in the dock over assault on Gaza

Posted on January 25, 2009
A shameful war: Israel in the dock over assault on GazaBy the time the shooting stopped, more than 100 Palestinians had been killed for every Israeli who died. Was every death lawful? And, if not, where does the fault lie?Did Israel ? or its enemy, Hamas ? commit war crimes during 22 days and nights of aerial assault, rocket launches and ground fighting in Gaza? In one sense the question is academic, because Israel will not recognise the conflict as an international one, and has not signed the 1977 Geneva protocol designed to apply to the victims of internal conflicts...

Mystery virus hits 15 million PCs around the world

Posted on January 25, 2009
Mystery virus hits 15 million PCs around the worldA mysterious computer virus, the purpose of which has yet to become apparent, is spreading so fast that it has already infected more than 15 million computers around the world. Some six million machines have been contaminated in the past three days alone by the virus, a worm known as Downadup, Conficker or Kido...

Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash

Posted on January 25, 2009
Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cashLABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found.Four peers ? including two former ministers ? offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash...

The Convict's Opera tour

Posted on January 25, 2009
The Convict's Opera tourMax Stafford-Clark directs this piece which tells the story of prisoners staging John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1812 Britain.Like a recidivist criminal, that fine director Max Stafford-Clark is returning to the scene of the crime...

Afghanistan's 'Guantanamo' poses new prison problem for Barack Obama

Posted on January 25, 2009
Afghanistan's 'Guantanamo' poses new prison problem for Barack ObamaAs Guantanamo Bay prepares to close, President Barack Obama will have to deal with a new problem with suspected terrorist detainees, this time at Bagram in Afghanistan. More than 600 detainees are held at the US Bagram Theatre Internment Facility - known by campaigners as "the other Guantanamo"...

Has the statue of justice fallen down?

Posted on January 24, 2009
Has the statue of justice fallen down?There was me thinking that a 8 year sentence was too severe for Karen Matthews only to read this morning that the Family of Shannon Matthews condemn her mother's 'lenient' sentence. It is difficult trying to mentally balance the scales of justice when the following tragic case also hits the news on the same day and same news bulletin A father who killed four of his seven young children when he crashed a Land Rover he part-built has been jailed for two years...

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