tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post8467800616957975471..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: The Megrahi scandalRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-17666214841966674902010-10-22T00:04:33.263+01:002010-10-22T00:04:33.263+01:00The court judgement isn't even all that long. ...The court judgement isn't even all that long. The <i>transcript</i>, now, is a bit heavier going.<br /><br />Even the appeal judgement, at a couple of hundred pages, is a relatively easy read. Then you have to pick yourself up off the floor once you work out what their stated reasoning actually was.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206952819245786811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-11803784264412928692010-10-21T23:45:55.936+01:002010-10-21T23:45:55.936+01:00Ruth, I found this part almost hilarious.
"H...Ruth, I found this part almost hilarious.<br /><br />"How many of these individuals have studied the evidence in the case, or even read the lengthy judgment of the court?"<br /><br />I wonder how shocked he would be by the answer to that. It was surely by reading the very documents he refers to that many of us went into shock that the court actually reached a guilty verdict?Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-79917660028391669242010-10-21T23:39:26.625+01:002010-10-21T23:39:26.625+01:00Yes Patrick and as we said the last time you menti...Yes Patrick and as we said the last time you mentioned Mr Evans his new career involves him continuing to work closely with his Party. The Labour Party. Clearly his concerns then about having confidence in the legal system have vanished given that he represented the very Party who fell over themselves signing evidence away from public eyes which was needed for Megrahi's appeal.Jo Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536467440869239587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-6647812203780604532010-10-21T15:57:12.253+01:002010-10-21T15:57:12.253+01:00I don't think I have read anything so bazarre ...I don't think I have read anything so bazarre as Alistair R Brownlie's statement:<br /><br />"We must learn to trust our criminal courts ..."<br /><br />I have first hand knowledge of cases in the High Court of Justice where judges have manipulated appeals to send innocent men back to prison to hide state crime.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07713759926710072249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-608890848175901092010-10-21T14:31:55.043+01:002010-10-21T14:31:55.043+01:00Lord Denning made his injudicious comments in Febr...Lord Denning made his injudicious comments in February 1988, as reported in this edition of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAP_o-gVegk&feature=related" rel="nofollow">BBC Question Time</a> when a teacher asks in relation to the 'Birmingham Six':<br /><br />"Is it more important to retain confidence in the legal and judiciary system than it is that innocent people remain in prison?"<br /><br />(The questioner - teacher Robert Evans - went on to be elected in 1994 to the European Parliament. Mr Evans stood down as an MEP in 2009 to start a new career.)Patrick Haseldinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10133417620510887039noreply@blogger.com