Blogging case 14-12-09

the hearing went on till after 6pm and I had to go through the staff Christmas party in the Bear Garden to be able to leave the court but found the front entrance closed and was lucky to find a judge on his way home to let me out at a side entrance, as I got lost in the corridors late at night.

I have not yet had the formal order but understand that all 3 applications from the Defendants Gray and Hilton were refused, they applied to strike the case out.

Don’t know what the 3 bloggers are so happy about, remarkably Hilton’s stance is amazing, he has simultaneously appealed against the decision of the master to have his application for summary judgment refused and had his 2 applications to throw the case out heard. So how can anyone have summary judgment and a dismissal of the case at the same time? Even John Gray’s application to have the case thrown out has been refused.

I am only a litigant in person and was totally outnumbered by the defendants, their lawyers and friends.  Sorry to miss Rainbows that evening. Going to work in the library today, voluntarily so that the users can get to see the picture archive of Tower Hamlets online soon.

I shall up-date this post, once the sealed order of the Master is available.  But I won the day throughout and even my suggestion to make alterations to the case with costs in case was allowed. I reckon the 3 bloggers celebrate that they did not have to pay costs. We are back at sqaure one and its a level playing field.

lack of community support

This report about a lack of social support for needy families highlights the lack of help where it is needed, we do not get from this Labour government.

My view is that poor communal services, delivered by untrained volunteers makes things worst rather than better and people in need of direction and social stability can become exposed to shallow attention.

Especially here in Tower Hamlets we have seen how community centres suffer from a lack of qualified workers support, centres are left to untrained volunteers and events are  held that encourage anti-social behaviour rather than stem it.

The budget for youth provision in 2010 has been cut by 5% and the families relying on that support to help their growing teenagers are left yet again without the much-needed support.

Taking into consideration that many young persons will leave school ill-equipped to deal with the requirements of our ever-increasing sophisticated society, we suffer from an ever-increasing splitting up of family units into more and more single ones and a lack of emotional support for those who need it most.

The highest budget in youth provision in Tower Hamlets  is channeled into after-care, the care needed to help youngsters who have committed crimes, been given ASBOS, youth being rewarded for bad behaviour.

What is needed is financial and personal support to help stabilise families so that their children do not stray into the wrong path. The only solution LBTH can come up with are more civil police support officers and police officers stationed in schools, schools who themselves look more like prison compounds than educational institutions.

If we are not careful and cannot avoid the ever-increasing criminalization of our young generation we’ll end up with a split society, those who end up in the jails and those who just manage to be able to cope on antidepressants.

No doubt churches can deliver a lot of that much-needed support and it is up to the media to bring church going back into fashion.  Clearly the social fibres function better in Muslim societies whose church affiliation are still intact, we can learn from them.  Apparently it is the Christian churches that are in decline and that turning away from religion makes us poorer and not richer.

Kaschke (v Der Spiegel) v the UK

As the case with number HQ08X00921 has been thrown out of the UK courts it has now been listed with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Just had sight of the all important acknowledgement letter that the “completed” application form has been received and is getting due attention. Phew I am pleased that I was able to fill out the application form to an acceptable standard as the vast majority of cases is thrown out for lack of a properly completed application form. The case reference is 33844/09. I shall refrain from making any further comments about the case but you can follow its progress on the website of the European Court of Human Rights website. At this stage all proceedings are on paper.

But to tell you that much the application is not just on the Rule 6, Right to a Fair Trial but also contains several other complaints.

Postals workers digging their own graves

This ongoing postal strike has to be a grave concern to all dependant on the postal service. Worst of all, those workers who are made to believe that striking will improve their position are badly advised as the current strike is making the case against the Royal Mail Monopoly on mail deliveries and I would argue they should lose that monopoly, as they already have in respect of parcel deliveries, which are often done by courier companies.

I have had 3 letters during last week and with the ongoing court cases will be unable to get court papers on time. How does the court apply the rule of delivery on the 2nd day of posting here?

Any democratic and free society needs a functioning mail service and it shows to me that postal workers unions are not on the side of freedom if they stall mail deliveries. It’s always been a sign of dictatorships halting mail services as to stop the flow of free communications and that is what in effect the postal workers are doing st the moment.

Interestingly I have not received my latest invoices from some company and not been able to connect to online billing, so I am being billed for something I cannot even have a say about, very concerning.

No Family? No, No, No!!!

This Labour government excels from one extreme to another, more blanket solutions, which are in my view in breach of the Human Rights Act and discriminate against members of families.

Of course we all know the principle that the best qualified person should get a job that has to be properly advertised and if that best qualified person happens to be a family member of the person advertising the job then it would be discrimination to not allow an appointment on the basis of the family connection. This of course also applied to the current MP employing family members scandal.

On the other hand I am vehemently against the employment, engagement, use of family members “because” they are family members.