Jailhouselawyer's Blog

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.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Blogs elbow convential politics out of the window

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More power to your blogging elbow here . Blog Power corrupts, and absolute blog power corrupts absolutely. Which is what Lord Acton might ha...

Body bags the window seat?

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I don't know what all this fuss is about BA using first class seats to prop up a dead body. What did the complainant expect BA to do, j...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Sir Christopher Evans again questioned by police

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Sir Christopher Evans who was again questioned on Friday by police investigating the cash for honours scandal, and subsequent perverting the...
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Reid to release early 5,000 prisoners a month

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The Home Secretary, John Reid, who is battling with the prison overcrowding crisis caused by New Labour's failed criminal justice polici...

Blooks

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If it looks like a blog and reads like a book then it could be a blook. The Sunday Times has the latest on this here .
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Adding insult to injury

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Ultimate absurdity Charging victims of miscarriages of justice for their board and lodging in prison is a gross insult Duncan Campbell Satur...
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Madness

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Madness .
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Gutter press - why comment is no longer free in the Guardian.

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The Fink was late in posting this but it was well worth the wait to discover that the Guardian, that so-called bastion of freedom, has sol...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

I smell a rat...

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The puppet judge for the occupying forces who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has been allowed to enter Britain without even making an as...
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Autobiographical notes

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I am happy to announce that this afternoon, I finished typing up chapter one (19 pages)of the first part of my two book autobiography, and e...

Release times of long-term prisoners - Times Law Report

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From The Times March 16, 2007 Release times of long-term prisoners House of Lords Published March 16, 2007 Regina (Stellato) v Secretary of ...

The Law is an ass - Times Law Report

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From The Times March 15, 2007 Living expenses can be cut from compensation House of Lords Published March 15, 2007 Regina (O'Brien and O...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

John Reid announces every day to be April Fools Day

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I suppose that the next logical step after Tesco law, should be the introduction of Tesco jails . Local clinks are to be built on every stre...
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Rich talk from the wife of a low life.

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According to Cherie Booth, who is a judge and the wife of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, " Criminals should be told to apologise to vi...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Iain Dale's Diary caption competition (amended version)

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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Some loose change for the Chancellor! Photomanipbyronskneesrantsandraves
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The law is an ass!

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When I was in H.M. Prison Gartree, Leicestershire, in 1983, two of the Bridgewater Three, Vincent and Michael Hickey, were in the same priso...

The Times Law Report of Court of Appeal decision in BBC injunction case

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From The Times March 14, 2007 BBC broadcast ban not justified Court of Appeal Published March 14, 2007 Attorney-General v British Broadcasti...

What's that you say Skippy? "Kangaroo Court"?

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Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down... Ninety three separate wounds, a dead body, the Army investigating the Army, and the Army...
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Boring, boring, boring. And, very dangerous!

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If the medium is the message, they still haven't got it. Iain Dale has gone from throwing the baby out with the bath water, to trying ...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

John Reid puts children at risk from paedophile

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Home Secretary John Reid announced last year that he intended to move paedophiles out of Home Office approved premises adjacent to schools....
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John Hirst Hull, East Yorkshire, GB "Who is John Hirst?" the Sun online questioned the day after the UK lost its appeal to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the prisoners votes case. The profile was not very informative nor flattering. But, I don't like the Sun either so we are quits. I was born, at 2 I was put into Dr Barnardo's Homes. What they called care, we refer to it as physical and sexual abuse. I drifted into crime, and spent 35 years in prison. In spite of the system, I reformed and rehabilitated myself with the support of some within and outside of the system. I was transformed from a law breaker into a law-maker. I am firmly committed to prisoners rights, and am a campaigner for penal reform. I live in a 3 bedroom terrace house within a cul-de-sac, and have a dog as a companion. My Latvian friend keeps invading my space and telling me I need a wife. She does keep the house clean and tidy, but loves my dog and calls him her boyfriend... Recently, Viking FM have asked for advice and reports for the news on radio on Criminal Justice issues. In addition, I used to write regularly for Inside Time the National newspaper for prisoners.
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