tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post949839654738128617..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Megrahi lawyer attacks Bill that axes safety net on right to appealRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-30013331171526943462010-11-04T14:06:59.753+00:002010-11-04T14:06:59.753+00:00I have just heard MacAskill's 'floating...I have just heard MacAskill's 'floating' the idea of repealing Newton's Law of Gravity, as under Scots Law, <i>"...the provision for the universality of an entity to comply with the principle that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, is adequately covered by the relevant clause in the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995."</i><br />In particular, he said,<i> "May I bring your attention to PART VIII Section 124(b) of the act? <b> '..every interlocutor and sentence pronounced by the High Court under this Part of this Act shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review by any court whatsoever..'</b> What this says, is not everything that goes up, comes down, unless the High Court says so."</i>blogistonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018834341706249710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-3952114871053987072010-11-04T13:27:59.448+00:002010-11-04T13:27:59.448+00:00"We must learn to trust our criminal courts a...<i>"We must learn to trust our criminal courts and not be persuaded to follow a politically led pseudo-investigation which could only give hope to every disaffected convict in Scottish prisons who could then agitate for a second examination outwith the regular criminal legal system."</i><br /> :- Alistair R Brownlie OBE<br />'Looks like this legal dude knew what was going down...blogistonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018834341706249710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-84192657503266519932010-11-04T13:17:04.210+00:002010-11-04T13:17:04.210+00:00Maybe it's because I'm a scientist that I&...Maybe it's because I'm a scientist that I'm so appalled by this. Certainty? Finality? These should never exist. Openmindedness to new evidence and new interpretations and new ways of looking at the world are the lifeblood of progress.<br /><br />How would it be if the Royal Society declared that we had "certainty and finality" with the conclusions of Newton? Give it up, Einstein. Get another job, Hawking.<br /><br />The idea that judges can sit there and declare something to be so which just ain't so, "in the interests of certainty and finality" is outrageous.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206952819245786811noreply@blogger.com