Don't teach the "granny basher" how to suck eggs!
During 1989-1991 when I was in the Hull Prison Special Unit and first started working on the Prisoners Votes Case, I recall reading in the Guardian that the Prison Advice Service were looking for a qualified solicitor. The advert was re-run a few times, and eventually it was announced that the post was filled by Simon Creighton. I recall speaking to him a couple times on the phone, and I cannot say that I felt impressed by his legal advice.
Meanwhile, Simon Creighton learns a little about prison law at the expense of prisoners being given duff advice and then buggers off to earn a lot as a partner with Bhatt Murphy Solicitors. Prisoners call this selling out.
Fast forward to 2010 and the New Law Journal asks him to express an opinion on my case.
Is it any wonder that the government took over 5 years to fully comply with my case when a so-called specialist in prison law misconstrues Hirst v UK (No2)?
"What the UK was required to do was put forward a rational basis for the loss of the right to vote, for example, that those serving more than ten years in prison should lose the right to vote because the seriousness of their offending has an impact on their citizenship, or that those convicted of election fraud should lose the right to vote".
The Court was very clear that severity of crime and length of sentence were not factors to be taken into account when disenfranchising, only in the limited example for election fraud could the vote be removed.
If Simon Creighton has difficulty reading my judgment then perhaps he will find Frodl v Austria easier? The Court explains in this judgment what the Court stated in Hirst No2.
There is more than a hint of hypocrisy when Simon Creighton accuses the government of being negligent, as he should know what being negligent is!
Prisoners have a choice. They can take the unqualified advice from the man who has not lost a case, or the dodgy advice of a qualified lawyer.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
2 comments:
My experience of Simon Creighton and his team is SHAMEFUL and DISGRACEFUL.
SIMON CREIGHTON WHY DO YOU ALLOW AND CONDONE THE ILL TREATMENT OF YOUR CLIENTS IN THE EXCEPTIONAL RISK UNIT CSC HMP WAKEFIELD.
WHY DID YOU DO NOTHING ABOUT THE INDECENT INHUMANE VISITING FACILITIES IN THE CSC UNIT WAKEFIELD PRISON YEARS AGO WHEN IT FIRST OPENED, WHY DID YOU NOT BRING THIS WICKED ACT BY THE AUTHORITIES TO THE ATTENTION OF EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS YEARS AGO.
SIMON CREIGHTON YOU ALLOWED AND CONDONED THE ILL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AND THEIR VISITORS INCLUDING THE YOUNG DEVELOPING MINDS OF SMALL CHILDREN.
EXPOSED AND SHAMED.
SIMON CREIGHTON SHAME ON YOU AND THE AUTHORITIES.
YOUR ALL BENT!!!!!!!!!!!
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