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Update – Portuguese Justice – Graham Mitchell.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 23, 2012

The Portuguese have a proverb – ‘Águas quietas são profundas’ – ‘Still waters run deep’; nowhere is this more apt than in their judicial system. Whilst it might appear to the uninitiated that nothing has

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Portuguese Trial by Media – Graham Mitchell and the EAW.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 21, 2012

The foetid waters surrounding the European Arrest Warrant for ‘First Degree Murder’ issued in respect of Graham Mitchell grow murkier by the minute.

Late last night I received an e-mail from

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Portuguese Men O Law

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by Anna Raccoon on March 13, 2012

The long tentacles of the Portuguese Judiciary have reached out and wrapped themselves around another Briton. This time it is not just a name that we read in the papers, it is one of our own, a fellow blogger,

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Exclusive – Update on the Portuguese European Arrest Warrant.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 13, 2012

Oh dear, oh dear.

I would not want to take anything away from Mr Jörling’s achievement in making the most of his life after his tragic injury in Portugal, nor do I seek to make

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Skunk as a Lord?

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by Matt Wardman on February 3, 2012

Skunk: A person regarded as obnoxious or despicable.

Sir Fred has been shredded.

But it was done with considerable input

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In support of Laurie Penny

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by Matt Wardman on January 30, 2012

Not a post I expected to be writing this afternoon; it was to be about Laurie’s interesting comments on Channel 4 News last night.

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Wigs Maketh Not Wisdom

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by Sam Smith on January 29, 2012

The European Court and Reform

In 1857 slavery was alive and well in the United States of America. Seeking his freedom a brave slave sued in Court in order to secure his family’s release.

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(No) Caution! Police at Work!

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by Gildas the Monk on January 19, 2012

We all support the police. Don’t we? I mean you do, don’t you?

In fact it depends. I would happily still throttle the pair who seemed to think they were Starsky and Hutch

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Citizen Police

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by SadButMadLad on December 15, 2011

The Peelian principle states that “The police are the public and the public are the police“

So when a member of the public is willing to stand up when something goes wrong rather than stay

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Sovereign Piracy

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on November 6, 2011

I realise that many of you may see this as something of a specialist rant, if you will, but bear with me.

I was provided with a link to a rather fascinating document about the matter of

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Stupid Idiot

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by SadButMadLad on September 26, 2011

So a teenager called Paul Thompson has been called a stupid idiot. Now it’s well known that most teenagers are stupid idiots. I was when I was

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Pompous Letters from Pompous Lawyers about Pompous Politicians

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by Matt Wardman on September 11, 2011

It’s the middle of the weekend and I currently have two curious puzzles:

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A Tale of Two Welfare Checks

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by Matt Wardman on September 5, 2011

Recently I’ve heard two stories of unexpected and dramatic visits from police,  entirely separate from the admirably rapid follow-ups to alleged offences based during the recent mayhem on our streets.

A Welfare Check is when the

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Blogger’s Handbags at Dawn: The *More Popcorn* Sagas.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 5, 2011

One of the defining features of the comments section of political blogs is the propensity for reasoned debate to slide into hysterical abuse. Frequently the comments can be better than the original blog posts as commentators relieve

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The politics of abortion

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by Thaddeus J. Wilson on September 1, 2011

There can be no more emotive topic, nor one that more clearly underscores the villainy of government versus the sensitivity of anarchism than the difficult matter of abortion.

Nadine Dorries, bless her

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Hyperventilating Over Paedophilia

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by Anna Raccoon on August 24, 2011

Paedophilia is an emotive subject; banned in ‘polite’ media circles, it has become virtually the exclusive province of the Blogosphere.

Every day – as Matt Wardman discovered when he took over

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Laurie Penny vs John Cooper QC

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by Matt Wardman on August 7, 2011

This is a short segment where Laurie Penny debated with John Cooper QC on Radio 5 about whether the sentences imposed on Charlie Jonnie Marbles and Gilmour was excessive, and – if so – why.

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Judgment Day

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2011

Once again, the High Court is being asked to quantify ‘enjoyment of life’. This time the vanishing point has been moved forward from the ‘futility’ of the Bland case.

I am at a loss, as

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Tom Harris interview about #hackgate

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by Matt Wardman on July 19, 2011

Yesterday Law Blogger CharonQC, who will be known to many Anna Raccoon readers, did a short (20 minute) podcast interview with Tom Harris

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I love my friends, and my friends love me

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by Gildas the Monk on July 18, 2011

Is it too early to gain perspective and draw conclusions from the phone hacking scandal?

Perhaps, because one might argue that “the facts” have not yet been established. On the other hand, I have some cynicism about whether “the

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Michael Lyons.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 6, 2011

As a Quaker, I have mixed feelings about a man being forced to kill another man. It may be true that because I have mixed feeling about being forced to kill another human being, that I am

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Password Problem or User Problem?

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by Matt Wardman on July 6, 2011

Anna was all over people being silly with their passwords yesterday, in the serious context of phone hacking at the News of the World.

But do you remember *this* episode?

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Life in the goldfish bowl.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 2, 2011

I have always been fascinated by how the law, invariably shaped to deal with the ‘hard cases’ that make the headlines and force change, pans out to affect the ordinary, the mundane, the banal, that vast chunk

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Drive to Distraction

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by Matt Wardman on June 23, 2011

Learn how to avoid death when crossing your drive by implementing a handful of common sense safeguards. Even non-existent risk must be mitigated.

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Covert Recording accepted in Evidence by Appeal Court

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by Matt Wardman on June 20, 2011

Have you secretly recorded your neighbour stating that your cat might suddenly vanish into the great mousehole in the sky, but they deny it?

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‘Elf and Safety Nonsense.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 15, 2010

When a raft overturned on the Clear Creek in Arkansas, one of the casualties was a 13 year old girl who had been undergoing training in the art of piloting a few rudimentary logs roped together through

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