Mr Justice Collins, your work has just begun
THE UNITED KINGDOM’S descent into Third World despotism was stalled slightly yesterday when the High Court reminded the government that it is not above the law and is bound by constitutional constraint:
Rules imposed under UN laws to enable the freezing of terror suspects’ assets are not lawful because they “bypassed” Parliament, the High Court has ruled. Mr Justice Collins allowed challenges by five men whose assets were frozen under the Treasury-imposed powers.
The British state has imposed a complete economic embargo on 70 people without legal authority, warrant or due process. The mechanisms by which the government ‘achieved’ this are the Terrorism (UN Measures) Order 2006 and the 2006 al-Qaeda and Taliban (UN Measures) Order, each of which were made under section 1 of the 1946 UN Act in order to implement resolutions of the UN Security Council. These Orders are not creatures of Parliament, but of the Privy Council, which makes them on behalf of the Crown, and is the monarch’s principle advisory body.
Jonathon Crow QC, for HM Treasury had told him (Collins) the UK government would left in violation of a UN Security Council order were the orders to be quashed immediately … A spokesman said the asset-freezing regime made an "important contribution" to national security by helping prevent funds being used for terrorism and was "central to our obligations under successive UN Security Council resolutions".
Fer cryin’ out loud. When the EU isn’t the source of our law, it turns out to be the UN! Listen, Jonathon Crow QC, Gordon Brown doesn’t make our law; neither do the Treasury, the Privy Council and certainly not the UN, which can get stuffed. I know I know, these are terror suspects, people will say, and these orders apply only to terror suspects. Yeah, we’ve heard that one before.
Pete Moore
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In addition to enabling and assisting terrorists - other spectacular achievements of Mr Justice Twat Collins, include the following:
-Uging (and achieving) a halt to the all removals of *failed* asylum seekers to Zimbabwe
-Restoring the payment of state benefits to failed asylum seekers.
-Ordering that an offender *jailed* for a *serious assault* be freed because he had not been given a chance to put his case to the Parole Board.
On asylum he laughed in the publics face more or less: Mr Justice Collins was "well aware" that the volume of asylum seekers was causing severe difficulties and that Mr Blunkett's measure was an attempt to stem the flow.
"I am conscious that this decision will mean it is unlikely to work, at least to the extent which was hoped”.
- Giving Prof Meadow, the nod and the wink and clearing him of providing mistaken statistical evidence that wrongfully helped convict the solicitor Sally Clark of murdering her two babies and which led to her committing suicide when she was later cleared. His evidence was central to the case and deeply flawed (he never showed any remorse for it either)
- Delivering a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations" (yawn). He is and central legally in all the Guardiantisa lefty style blathering that keeps America top of the big bad ogre list on this score and hugely overstates the issues.
- He gave government officials the power to impose arbitrary penalties on the public without having to justify them in a court of law. The implications of this case were enormous, because not only are 7 million of these fines imposed each year on motorists, but other branches of government have in recent years exploited the same system by introducing automatic penalties for a range of offences, such as the late return of forms or taxes.
So working against the interests of the British public and in the interests of any and all dodgy foreigners is his forte it would appear. And he has his work cut out for us? Us? He is a prime example of everything that is wrong with our justice system and should be strung up by the balls.
Alison
Hear hear!
I make no apology for quoting Shakespeare again: "Let's kill all the lawyers!"