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Ministry of Justice Fails 'FOIA Request' Test

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2025-05-15

Martin Geddes' quest to get to the bottom of his strange "prosecution" for parking his van in darkest Cumbria has elicited a remarkable response from the person in charge of "Legal and Professional Services, Central Legal Operations", at "HM Courts and Tribunal Service".

You just have to read this, otherwise you wouldn't believe that a senior Barrister in high position would be capable of such a legally inadequate reply.

But in mitigation, perhaps the said respondent hasn't caught up with the AI revolution yet? I suspect that running the FOIA through an appropriate AI would have prompted a rather different response ...

 

Crazy Times ...

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2025-05-15

Make of this what you will ...

... but as always, Trump is wrong-footing a lot of people!

He's probably the only global politician who can pull it off. I suppose you could say that this is what power-play leadership is all about, and of course, it serves to keep his opposition confused.

(21 minutes)

 

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Iran to Board the Trump Train?

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2025-05-15

Il Presidento has moved on from Saudi to Doha, with much signing of agreements and general adulation (none of which includes Netanyahu's Israel, once the master of the USA - Trump must be feeling remarkably confident).

Even Iran it seems now wants a piece of the action, and if granted that would be a complete about-face from previous form of decades.

Will a decisive break from the past really emerge from all this?

 

It Matters Not to Free Men What Tyrants Write on Paper

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2025-05-14

This follows on from this previous article, and a separate appeal for assistance (I don't normally carry appeals for donations because my job is to inform and not to raise money, even for worthy others - I have to have a policy on this for consistency and reputation and that is my policy).

Martin Geddes is personally involved (not as a parent) in a case of child abduction, under colour of law in an apparently legal process, but which upon critical examination can appear to break all the rules in the legal rulebook.

"What many believe to be a system of neutral adjudication is, in reality, a machine that can be co-opted to launder unlawful actions through a veneer of procedural legitimacy"

He brings us up to date with this case.

 

What Actually Did Go Wrong, and at Who's Hand?

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2025-05-14

Historian David Starkey isn't just a national treasure, he's perfectly capable of reviewing the broad sweep of history to pinpoint the points of fundamental change in practical legal government.

We may now be accustomed to the idea of "legal" equating to "compliance to somebody else's rules" or even nowadays "corrupt enforcement of invalid rules" but it was not ever thus. So where did it all go wrong?

"What has happened to the very meaning of the word 'Democracy'?"

"Anglo-Saxon England was astonishingly well administered"

"If that Magna Carta had survived we would have gone the way of Poland ... "

"It establishes that wonderful idea of the Middle Ages ... that you pay taxation in return for the redress of grievance ... "

"It works because it's a very lightly modified version of the English Constitution ... "

" ... we were able to take it [our Constitution] for granted ... because it was so successful ... "

Believe me, you don't want to miss this!

(104 minutes)

 

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