If this report is true, then we can say goodbye to the impartiality of the Courts, not that I am convinced they ever have been.
Any citizen has the right to apply to become a member of the Magistrates bench as long as they are of good standing. Evidence shows that you have to belong to the right clubs and hand-shake the right way to become a brethren.
I am sick of the correspondence from characters that show no moral fibre but who glory in putting JP after their name because it impresses the impressionable.
At least the Yardie is a honest thief and gun toter. It was the politician that forbade me from carrying a weapon to defend my nation and family, but does not prohibit the lawbreaker. Murder is perpetrated by evil people with weapons. Weapons have never committed a crime in their existence, they only assist the perpetrators.
UK riots: magistrates told 'ignore the rule book' and lock up looters
Courts are being advised that the scale of last week’s civil disobedience
means that offences committed during the riots should be dealt with more
harshly.
The memo, sent late last week by the capital’s most senior justice clerks, led
one magistrate to warn that any offenders involved in the “anarchy” can
expect a prison sentence.
Magistrates appear to have heeded the message, as figures released by the
Ministry of Justice last night disclosed that two in three people charged in
connection with the riots and looting have been remanded in custody.
This is pure hypothetical as I am not likely to be in the situation. However, if I was in court watching the toe-rag who ransacked my shop, business and ruined the lives of my staff because I can not re-open, not being punished properly, and using tax-payers money for his defence,I would want to cause severe pain to that person. No amount of 'sorry' would ever be acceptable!
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ReplyDeleteFor those reasons you don't want politicians rewriting ancient laws with the New social-idealisms and misguided hypothesis on matters of simple, evil human nature.
ReplyDeleteWhen the French were experimenting with social equalities they reinvented Madam Guillotine to relieve their political excesses. Would work wonders in Westminster!?!?.
Quite interesting that Keith Vaz caused massive consternation by keeping very quiet when being investigated by Parliament and is now chair of an influential investigative body???
It is the dilemma about law and order that Westminster wont face. Too many bent MP's still in Parliament???
It's not weapons that kill people; it's people that kill people.
ReplyDeleteU couldn't kill a mouse with that weapon!!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad I am not the only one who noted the hypocrisy of people like Keith Vaz, who are now chairing committees, especially after the expenses scandal. There is this idiotic requirement that anyone who is called to give information at one of their meetings MUST TELL THE TRUTH! Do me a favour - there are still a large number within the House of Corruption that should have been jailed over their expenses. Why did the two police officers not take the full list of MP's who fiddled and politely refused to answer questions because MP's had stolen money blatantly from the taxpayers?
ReplyDeleteVaz was investigated, along with his wife, long before the Telegraph exposed the extent of what we mostly thought, corruption. Because he refused to answer any questions - must have thought he was in the Sates and pleaded the Vth - he was reprimanded by the committee but no sanctions further taken because he played stupid and said nothing. Bet Mrs Huhne didn't learn that lesson from the opposition!?!?
ReplyDeleteBlackpool former councillors have been taking note though.