I bring you an utterly bizarre case from across the pond to exercise your brain today.
Just outside Windham, south west of Bangor in the state of Maine lived a man called ‘Skip’
Continue reading →Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
The Inquiry Hokey-Cokey.
£20 million down, £80 million to get through, Alexis Jay’s ‘loyal staff’ audition for the role of legal advisor…
You put your left boot in
You take your left boot out
You
Continue reading →
MacKenzie Frenzy.
They are multiplying like rabbits; private companies – ‘The Society of Professional McKenzie Friends Ltd‘ offer a directory of ‘self regulated’
Continue reading →Exclusive – Lynne Owens, Surrey Police, and the ‘Arrest First Policy’ – Pt 294.
I was keen to know how Lynne Owens’ policy in respect of alleged sex offenders was actually reflected in the crime figures for Surrey.
This is a follow-up post to my various posts on
Continue reading →Does my Baton look big in this?
The Fascism of Political Correctness strikes again!
Dave Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands police, has decided that there are ‘no barriers’ to a woman police officer deciding to wear the niqab – the
Continue reading →The Percy Principle.
The Percy Principle.
“In the NHS, every failing CEO tends to move sideways to a non-existent role of no consequence but with a similar pay grade.”
Katrina Percy is a huge fan of fresh faced young men
Continue reading →Credible Witnesses, Navel Battles, & Hypocritical Whingers.
Credible Witnesses.
The ever gullible Surrey Police seem to have reversed their much publicised ‘arrest first, investigate later’ policy; this time they investigated – then arrested their ‘credible witness’.
It was
Continue reading →Exclusive – Stephen Hamilton
There is a worrying shuffling of feet and staring into the middle distance in Academia. It is understandable – there is not much point in sticking your neck out so far that you end up with
Potpourri – No.17
Morphine seems to have stunned everything north of the neck as well as its required task, and I can’t keep my mind on any one subject. So have several different ones, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Exclusive Update:Lynne Owens and Surrey Police – Pt 264.
It has been a long time in gestation. It was back in February when I discovered a dropbox belonging to one Kevin Hurley, then Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey. Mr Hurley, at that time,
Wow! Media coverage as extra judicial punishment…!!!
An Australian judge has recognised that the media coverage that those with some vestigial claim to celebrity attract when appearing in
Continue reading →Feeding Time at the Legal Zoo.
It started with a lie; a false allegation; a mendacity, a calumny, a canard. However you dress it up, it simply wasn’t true.
40 year-old Georgina Ray decided that the only possible reason
Continue reading →Their Satanic Travesties.
Yesterday, the long running saga of ‘delusional, obsessional, irrational and odd’ individuals who have littered the internet with requests for funds to help them bring to justice a supposed band of Satanic baby eaters and paedophiles
Corrupt Police Officers?
By 1988, Lynette White had been a prostitute for 6 years. Since she was 14 years old, to save you working it out for yourself. She was bright and bubbly, but had never progressed beyond the
Autistic Meltdown.
My interest in Autism stems from my days with the Court of Protection. There is a form, a ‘CP3’, on which the GP or Consultant is invited to put ‘simply’ the reason why he thinks his
The Archer’s hitting the Feminist ‘G’ spot.
![]()
“Switch off from Archers’ victim Helen and you’re no better than those who ignore domestic abuse in real life”
That is the damning opinion of Polly Neate, Chief Executive of ‘Women’s Aid.
Continue reading →
Pampering – or Tampering?
Mr G was recently the unwilling recipient of the care given to witnesses appearing in court.
He was apparently an ‘essential prosecution witness’ – if he didn’t turn up, the case would be abandoned.
Continue reading →Victims and Survivors.
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…
It was 200 years
Continue reading →Rural police left ‘sitting ducks’ by shortage of armed back-up.
The Police Federation of England and Wales has warned the government the shortage of armed officers leave the country ‘vulnerable to a terror attack’.
John Apter, chairman of
Continue reading →
‘Saint’ Nick and the Fantasist Club.
Someone had a sense of humour at Operation Midland, when they psuedo-named their prime ‘witness’ as Nick.
I am indebted to Bob Woffinden, in his excellent book ‘The Nicholas Cases‘*, for alerting me
Continue reading →Charity Scammers and ‘Cancer Cures’.
I really wish I had saved all the e-mails I get telling me of the weird and wonderful ways in which I could rid myself of cancer if I was only to send the writer money
Slater & Gordon – ‘Ouch’ edition.
Last April, one of those little noticed tweeks to regulatory matters, brought in by the Government without publicity, was made to the rules surrounding court costs:
(1) Orders for costs made against the
Continue reading →
Gender Benders.
“We recognise that not all children and young people identify with the gender they were assigned at birth or may identify as a gender other than male or female, however the current systems (set nationally) only record gender
Continue reading →
Slater & Gordon – The ‘Pile ’em High’ edition.
As the supermarket concept developed in the UK in the 1950s, the appearance of brand names developed as well and were designed to be colourful, eye-catching and distinctive.
Buying a supermarket with
Continue reading →Rest In Peace – Till On Whim I do Disinter!
Thoroughly modern woman – the world stops spinning on her command. With a swish of her finger she selects a new lover on her mobile; divorce, abortion, half his pension, she can dispense with him just as
A Private Tragedy – A Public Disgrace.
Were you to Google the name – which I’m not going to give you! – you would come up with results running to four figures. Each of those news items have been read hundreds if not thousands of
Continue reading →Slater & Gordon – Part 764.
Legal regulators in Victoria, Australia, have woken up to the dangers posed to ‘vulnerable clients’ by
Continue reading →A kiss is just a kiss? Depends who you are!
The ‘outrage bus’ is doing wheelies round the Sunderland Football Club car park as it awaits its ritualistic joy-ride through Twitter when Adam Johnson’s sentence is deemed too soft… as it will be if just one week short of
Continue reading →The right to defend yourself against sexual allegations?
A fascinating case has been making its way through the legal system unnoticed by all bar a few legal practitioners. The media are uninterested – they cannot name or photograph the parties and there are absolutely no celebrities,
Continue reading →The Presumption of Innocence.
There was a howl of outrage when it appeared that the Presumption of Innocence had been suspended for those individuals with a penchant for strapping explosives around their waist and ensuring that the police had a neat pile
Continue reading →