note 18 nov 2021 THIS PAGE SOON TO BE MERGED WITH AN EDITED simonclayton2020.com
https://www.simonclayton2020.com/
all new info on there
gets sort of developed most days...at dawn....
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page in draft noteform....work in progress
VERY poignant material going up soon - by mid Nov
phone number zero seven 958 five 263 eight 1 - typo in hurried emails sent out.
oh ps...footnote, I have nothing to do with 'tin foil hat' brigade and indeed occasionally scanning 'alternative' media - it is 99% nutjob rubbish. And as for bigoted nonsense just call it out for what the majority is.
ALL my friends and acquaintances are very mild mannered sweet people - generally mothers of local kids. And i don't use the internet very much as the debate is generally so dumbed down everywhere. And those linking me to Alex videos (the gobby one, all so extreme) I ask them not to.
This is on one sentence an invitation to join me in a project to show a good universally acclaimed (especially by ALL senior journalists at the time all of whom were women) foundational development in Free speech in 2004-6. The fun version.
Which once again is being played around with on your tax payer money for personal gain - in 2009 I had top newspaper eds write "hoodwink" about even Jack Straw (and forced him to unwink in world record speed as he so shabbily named the case specifically in Parliament in his opinion the case requiring reversing in effect.). The hoodwink will continue. Unless more know about the simplest core issues. In fact a Tory would get a lot of grown up mature votes if putting in a new bill to take it back to the setting 2006. But anything about now is not my interest it is what happened then that is as i know it is a very inspirational tale.
AND THIS IS IN SERIOUS EDIT MID NOV 2021... or would be if even journalists long known had the manners to actually at least acknowledge a digital inbound with something human which even they never do these days and thus ones energy sure gets drained... oh well there will be someone who gets it ..
I have always had to operate on the back of a fag packet and am world record holder especially as living thankfully away from such morons - as far away as possible, the broadband and other signals are so tenuous if i miss my upload-at-5am slot (far higher speeds) and only get to it at 8am may as well forget it and energy drained. But i never forget it... and every day a new day.
But the very serious version - my material on these case is so messy because in fact for several years my true passion is roaming and filming and photographing (rather artfully though i say it myself) the actual reality (rather than radio4 version) of how many decades long understood environmental practices are quite deliberately ignored by so many landowners and councils in my region. (Herefordshire) ... But publish something about this? The real version in well written (i can) paragraphs with plenty of no contention filmed evidence as example on regional environmental (ehh people) stuff.... if you do, prepare to hide or hire bodyguards with big guns.
Or prepare to have your children actually bullied at school
(one gorgeous example of this last year - why a local very very worthy parent having heard of this real thing and believing my evidence said would happen if she even had an opinion of something a few miles away from their village when she paints herself the of Joan of Arc of nature..)
" what your dad said about my dad on his facebook unlawfully killing many [censored i cannot even identify this very protected species - gaoltime just for peeing on their set, in case a local person finds this] in the cruellest possible manner... caused my dad to lose his job...mum said at teatime.... here take that..."
Any enquiries by phone only please, or text best as signal bad my area 0 seven nine 58 52 six three 81 that can be shared with anyone. - i have another number and if you have that that number may not. or simonclayton@post dotcom
An introduction to what on earth in real life is 'freedom of speech' is in some unedited waffle in the following cloud storage folder (mega appears rather wonderful and i am fussy - no viruses, i assume it allows downloads....don't have time to be online wizard at moment)
It is tragic how various F. O. S. aspects get conflated and confused.
I try to sum it all up.
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new channel today - there wont be much in it
and when i set it up it said i was called @simonclayton
but now it seems its renamed me
https://odysee.com/@Simonclayton:5
but of one searches @simonclayton my waffly channel the only one that comes up !!!
one despairs...
video 9 nov part 1
https://odysee.com/@Simonclayton:5/20211109_144128:1
part 2
https://odysee.com/@Simonclayton:5/20211109_151440:5
never any time to edit ... have to rumble around - often n the undergrowth, just for a bit of bandwidth
never time to even watch anything i may make to upload for naghty things or just innocent naughty mistakes prior upload...
odysee said to be a little less klu klux klan than bitchute.... or rumble....
who knows.
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Freedom to 'publish' - legal term for even a Facebook emoji, almost anything that does not fall foul of 100s of year old obvious necessary limits.
That said the 'necessary' limits... well every single snowflake commentariat in The Arab Spring was cheering on from the safety of their dumbphone all sorts of social democratic action that was in their home states breaking local law - law many years in place. So the philosophical argument goes deep in all this. One may decry the partial demagogues like the Trumps of this world and pity their choice of hair products, but they should never be silenced unless there are rigorous democratic analysis of massive real law breaking that can have real medium term negative effects on a society. And so few seem to understand this any more.
Freedom to be informed of anything, excepting that which the same applies - official secrets etc..
As no one ever reads or even listens properly any more, I am not a campaigner and this is only about getting one great movie made which helps folk mull over the issues which are far wider than children legal matters.
in film above
notes: rebel wisdom youtube channel trendy hipster words from the likes of Mister Fuller, for not knowing very much other than how to coin new cool sounding words like 'sensemaking' to get attention, as knowing takes a lot of real pondering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1RIaZ7RCzw&t=1440s and actually living issues such as the 'whispering campaign' which is not some silly hype phrase it is a legal term for the uninformed rather silly ignorant gossip that has been around ever since humans sat around campfires no doubt. And thus anyone needs the ability to 'say' or publish nearly anything.
Yes...I was the first person nationally in a real bigboy "test case" to bring to the attention of their On'hers that the world was just about to change with the ...internet... blogs, videos self publishing.... I told them in my written representation - all my own crazy work... in fact deep down it was a cornerstone of why the laws were changed that day.
They agreed i was right.... though they probably would have blown a fuse had we silly showoff words for homemade broadcast, like 'podcast', back then.
No time to edit, finesse, not only do i create material about far more interesting little problems in the affairs of humanity but you never ever get paid, especially to do 3+ years trudging around my local four constituencies, harvesting maybe-allies on lets try and get a rerun of 2016 - after all something like a 'material change' may indeed allow it at some future point, was my main line then, and hahhh hahhh 3 months on (from Jan 2020 disconnect) ...one did, a rather big one.
And .... gentrification is a real thing and indeed it is related, it is extraordinary how uppity landlords would get like the one whom in 2009 evicted my lass and i to turn our longterm hovel rental up high in the hills, into holiday homes for 'Guardian Reader' visitors to a certain small town where they adore blocking free speech, and read articles about gentrification over cappuccinos going tut tut... when 3 months earlier she had written a formal letter stating she had no such plans....a judge saw and threw in his bin too - he knew her words may as well have been written on chop paper. . These things are real. Accountability is a forever necessity in every walk of life. Or things do eventually turn nasty. And i was just about the pin up boy for exactly that. I have no axes to grind.... you have to turn every smallest fey meanness to ones advantage ...sooner or later. And great writers like Rachel Kushner can make just that, poetry too.
And gentrification number 2 ongoing takes up a lot of time...at the moment. But I am rather good at keeping my full chronicles...and treble backing them up too. No matter what...
sorry i go off on a tangent.... which every single 'freedom of speech' jockey has been also doing for years...
As the two recorded conversations linked below demonstrate i think quite well.
But there is a post pandemic aspect to this in fact why I feel the time is even more ripe.
Oh yes and even ultra woke compliant Douglas Murray and gang will not be able to disagree the star of the show was simply the most gorgeous real woman in history, Sophia who in the ITV This Morning clip on this page https://www.simonclayton2020.com/p/media-on-cases.html rightly calls for a revolution. OOps Miss Quote, stated "revolutionary.."
I loosely do a load of little semi social worker functions in my region and also advise folk with things like benefit issues - genuinely sick people i mean. Housing issues etc.. I have a range of some year allies who are in touch with realities of our contemporary society and speak with me about all sorts.
Unlike the fey London based so called journalism, by Zoom from the safety of their own fancy flat, that is so anodyne and clap-for-the-NHS it is absurd, real people know that big business, landowners, employers, councils, for at least the last 9 months are really really now hardening up. greed sharp elbows and grab what you can which means inevitable marginal or unlawful practice is the actual pandemic. Why the freedom to call out will be even more necessary in the next decade than ever before. And the understanding that it should never be blocked without very good reason.
Indeed those 'journalists' seem to have missed that about a year ago when a sick old person ordered her repeat prescription of something that they need to keep them alive, they could ask for three boxes at once and for many years would receive three months supply in one NHS bag - one prescription fee if they are in the pay-as-you go bracket. Mid pandemic when everyone is meant to be being so nice, it changed = policy obviously has become that they only get one box per fee.
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My purpose - to get freelance passionate assistance - anyone
with some balls could help me.
I can form a Ltd company (owning rights at least initially) and give a
few percent to a few people - get this story under proper
consideration - help me pimp it out into filmmaking circles... not rocket
science; get the info seen eventually by some film production company -
and anyone with shares can benefit from any payback - I haven't eaten well for
15 years... i don't mind but know others have their running expenses.
This is a one off (temporary) webpage to share links and some pertinent
recent information only. A few people are personally invited to view. Please do
not share. This site is set not to be Google searchable. There are personal
reasons I wish some discretion at the moment - mainly those in the
boondocks where I live sadly do not value those whom promote 'rights'. And that
is in fact just as much what this is a bout - to remind such people the
importance of just that.
This matter ( this page now Nov 2021), and my time on this, is ONLY about how over a few years (and then a tail of 5 years of HMG nonsense - 2008-13 but that s no part of any story that needs a film), a whole legal culture on Freedom Of Speech was attacked and changed. How to.... you can too...
I was a lost feral idiot mountain man who just said why ever not. And put on some Bob...loud....and went for it. The fabulous Helen Steel (Mc Libel) did her bit... but she never showed you you must have a bit of fun too - or it makes you ill; as it did her. No one ever made me ill. I would have not one second in any way different.
It is ONLY 2002-6 that matters. The fools whom come after cannot in modern UK even countenance ALL was dealt with at great great length. Then.
And every grain of sand is in my head still. Oh and a few rather interesting pieces of paper are in here....
And as can be seen for example in a few videos in the other site https://www.simonclayton2020.com/ i like to enjoy real life. I would have not wasted one millisecond on this nonsense had it not been for the fact that over time I created the environment (even if by gentle shock and ore) whereby the better legal minds were applied to this foundational matter. Ok Most had to be virtually threatened (with exposure, not my bits i wouldn't waste a second on that either) but 'bullied' in the moderndady radio4 type vernacular, into doing their jobs properly... for real, the top judges spent much time on this matter. Munby wrote his December 2005 FOR me... I would not have even bothered turning up at the RCJ was it not for the fact that i knew that many top judges, and many top journalists were very aware of the issues. The grown up version not the mathers4justice - i think there is one member left, or fathers4jusice type rather trite and always so self pitying rhetoric.
But today's journos seem unable to even remember that far back... this
was ALL dealt with in 2006 ! (with many millions of quid and thousands of hours of senior judge and government minister time on it in the proceeding few years). But a good feature film about that story - the
Erin Brockovic... simplified fun version has never been more required ... I was
told personally by Ken Loach in 2010 it's what's needed but he didn't have time
to help then and i didn't have energy left then to get onto it. I do now.
But it will not be I Daniel Blake dull and droll...it will be the opposite: Captain Fantastic fun and laughs...give it to the man....
... to inspire, not bore
to death with misery and self pity. We had some laughs with all this...many extraordinary
moments in fact. I would not have had one moment any other way.
And furthermore the ordinary citizen seems unable to remain focused on
the simplest point of that 2006 Freedom to speak case - it was not some
"aggrieved father" speaking out. ( i was not a member of any men's
group). Indeed the story was positive. But the law works in the UK - or
legal 'reform', by hitting at the most 'extreme' case so to speak; if by judge
led law (what a precedent is) one hits at the hardest area - privacy connected
to a child - the most 'vulnerable' of our society, then that precedent ripples
up and outwards into many if not all other areas of civil law. That
is what I sweat blood getting this through was for...it seems
beyond the pea brain mentality of most modern journalists especially on the
'left' to understand that many decades tradition in UK law. It may as well be
folklore...
I have set this page up simply for efficiency - many people these days
do not seem to even reply to an email if one asks for confirmation they have
received something - nice thing to do as it helps in the ever dodgy spam
filters. This way the info is here in one page - initial pitch. F.O.S. is very
topical...I am an expert. And this key issue which I am trying to distil into 3
paras will once again be getting plenty of serious media coverage the next year
or so. Financiers and filmmakers like that. ANY help anyone can give me get the
get-a-deal machine running is appreciated.
(any reference to covid is of no interest to me - I express no
covid opinions in public ever, this has nothing to do with current affairs
except that a ten year period of this fundamental FOS being properly and
conclusively dealt with at great cost to the taxpayer never mind
myself...seems rather forgotten)
Please respect my privacy in that for reasons of having to hurry
out some material I do not have time to edit and remove some things which
normally one does not share with strangers.
I have a rather unedited fuller website https://www.simonclayton2020.com/ which is
public.
That site was set up to begin to clarify aspects of the foundational
Freedom of Speech development (2005-6). I have not had the time or space to
finesse it yet. I actually far prefer writing and thinking about other
things.
However it almost gives reason as to why I am back on this topic - so
few 'get' it. It is so hard to simplify the key very simple reasons why
F.O.S.?? why names of the 'vulnerable' or young must be publishable? .
....oh my... many a time I have tried with intelligent folk, it really
is time to get an engaging feature film out - to inform... earnest does not
work; or perhaps the feature film just works better in the longer term. I know
when i watched the 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird in my early
adulthood I really really did 'get' the whole thing...
Most people in the UK even the supposedly educated do not appreciate the
theatricality that is 'law'.
This principle (in my case) - indeed a splendid Belfast intellectual
John Junk called it "the Clayton lacuna" is a principle that is
so jumbled up, but it can be simplified as this:
A true gentleman of the wigs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Wall_(judge)
I picked a nice photo... oh my how eye to eye -
once just him and I.. He was a hansom almost James bond of a man - a real
man.... but you know his bite could hurt if you angered him.
essentially played out with me a quite personal
theatre - theatre... for societal benefit but be clear it is theatre. And we
were on the same side. he basically said he was waiting for me to come
along....and I did. All quite by accident.
I wish he had truly clarified in one sentence of
his rather chaotic judgement in 2006 clayton v clayton (it was HIS case
- be clear, he wanted the system reformed...he made that clear..he stated we
would do it with mine... . my how disappointed he would be in his grave today
if he knew the utter pigs ear the whole of society still makes of it all...)
what he meant and his body language ALWAYS showed
us all... ok after i told the big bugger I'll ...well...
Wall's intent - our ethos, crystal claro: ...
The citizen in a healthy democracy, should normally
be even encouraged, in the act of going to the
fourth estate with complaint. Any complaint. And never
bullied or coerced by any official (or even his own lawyer - often the case!)
not to, unless a very very good reason is present
(newspapers do NOT publish " a woman who
cannot be named for legal reasons had her child eaten by a social
worker.." they are known as boring and get few people
interested..they need to see at the very least a picture and a para of
bio...a county councillor from Caversham bit the goolies off his ex lovers dog
as he was love jealous.. the lover ended up having a breakdown and remains in
long term care getting ECT... we cannot name her for legal reasons as the
distress may send her over the edge and she may lunge for the dial and turn it
all the way up to...11.... and rip the knob off.... does not get
reported....actually they wont even put in Caversaham as that may lead to an
identification... they end up not putting anything in..." sorry terrible
thing happened to your sister in the loony bin... we care...but our lawyers
have said that they are unsure about whether we legally should..... so we have
to default to nope cannot..")
That was what Sir Nick made it clear eye to
eye - him and I, in our round one of the Appeal case in his RCJ
dungeon, 'leave to Appeal' - late 2005, he chose to chair.
Quite deliberately (to my shock that day). He knew exactly my personality (we
had mutual 'friends' ) and way of behaving, and he quite deliberately almost
made up the line that I was "a useful 'campaigner' on shared child tax
credits" at that time. It is in the judgement from that day. His body language
was "of course the proletariat must make a noise.." He wished to
encourage just that. He knew i wasn't doing much in that world but had just
stuck that as notional example in my fag-packet notes for that day
as example of how i was constrained. That is called theatre for a greater
good. True gentlemen know that. I knew that moment the case was already won. To
my huge shock as i was alone RCJ for the first ever time because no other
campaigner would come with me as litigant friend as they all thought i was nuts
to even waste the petrol cash going to London...
I know that in fact some results are from other
cases - one usa case.... for years https://www.5rb.com/case/clibbery-v-allan/ was
the gold seal decision - one would often see in newspapers, about the
citizen's line of private matters - where they are entitled to 'privacy'.
That case was applied to many walks of life not only family.
Today a Google of Clibbery v Allan - 2,000 hits...
Clayton v Clayton many hundred thousand at least. IT says many millions
if one doesn't stick quote marks around it.
radio 4
29 Oct 2021
05:30
..... and then continued into the rest of the day
reporting (I don’t have time yet to pick out bits ) and also going into
broadsheets, as i got Frances Gibb Times legal ed in 2009 - when they
were playing with my aw in Parliament, to write: another utter
"HOODWINK..."
at 03:30 minutes into this show...
A TOTAL sop as so often - the laws were amended
some years ago to 'allow' journalist in and as usual THE key issue is not
access by news reporters (who hardly ever have the money or staff free to
go) but the right of the citizen to be reportable....under normal
circs..... please note this principle applies to many other civil
litigations as well such as Industrial Tribunals.
( made that default from 2006 it lasted until about
2014 when HMG fucked around with it all...and all the other so called
campaigners failed to even appreciate this.)
A truly poor piece of reporting as so often:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010xqk
THE WHOLE ISSUE NEEDS RERUNNING....
TWO RECORDINGS 1 NOV 2021 CLARIFY ISSUE
please note these are conversations recorded for
efficiency to brief others - they are not normal conversations in
that these are hurried private matters recorded for speed and
efficiency but in fact although mist will say "what a mad sounding bombastic twat... " they are in context PEFECT examples of what the problem was and still is....
The fist being with a many year close friend Cambridge educated (obsessed with deplatforming etc during covid. I am not even if the matters may arguably be linked .) ... who even though he knows i am utterly exhausted trying to roll a few things out MUST go off on tangents .... must be the so knowing armchair (all he ever is) cognoscenti. .... at least he didnt insult as most i would have these same conversations with in 2005 would..... but THIS is why the 'system' wins.. they look at the (his) forums he is on all night... they monitor... the complete and utter inability to stay on tried and tested test case track for example... fight THAT front it has been breached before.... rather well... open up other fronts too if you wish but my energy is nly available painting the picture of that victory... help or it is by default a hinderance....
no one ever ever these days can manage to ... and thus that system is laughing at you all.....its a walk in the park for them....
I should join them... far less boring than endless exhausting sessions one sometimes needs to say shut up and listen...
folder "1 nov" megga
2 audio files mp3
https://mega.nz/folder/3mZV3CjZ#FpUUPwL2JxwNlX0fLGG8tw
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first better draft in progress:
This case is not “clayton v Clayton”
This case is Simon C against Justice Hedley (and
the prevailing culture of gagging and silencing anything uncomfortable for the
powers and moneyed that be, AND the citizenry not understanding that
fundamental anti-democratic development that had been underway a decade or more
in UK) – Hedley in 2005 #3 judge in civil family and court of protection
(and other civil), and BBC luvvie superstar judge, and then also me
vs dozens of other officials from my own lawyer (sacked do it yourself)
to every other judge (except Singh CBE who rather liked his “celebrity”
parents) to even many on my own side in the then open up courts
campaigns, who just waffled and never helped.
No one but SC ever formulated the issues. And
I have no legal training...
LJ Wall (2005) knew everything - the
issues... the real ones – the wish to responsibly speak in public.
He knew as i had a personal occasional relationship
with is jolly good chum Kirk QC ... (my oppo QC as I was litigant in person in
earlier maters – Kirk the only honourable man i ever met and we stayed in touch) and
the late Ian Mackay, I was an ok balanced chap... even if a wildish man of the
hills far away. He knew iIdrove down to London in our trusty old campervan as i
couldn't afford a hotel. He knew my daughter was ferret girl.... he actually
had a real human heart.
In the second paragraph of the formal statement
first time I went to a court regarding my beloved lass in 2002, even after
seeing quite disgusting hurtful slander from the other side (UK being
world record false allegation country) i made a formal court statement
saying my daughter is loved and parented well by both parents
equally. That's what a gentlemen does, despite the 'other' side
(s) quite evil behaviour prior to that - i know the awful Hay-on-Wye
lawyer Beales and co., encouraged the disgusting slander...
They knew that I – the common man, would not misuse
the right to speak in public about that which previously had been always
prohibited. And then maybe set the right example to others after me... they
knew their system had thrown many a painful indignity at me and I always responded
with grace.
But in fact the case was (in truth, almost
‘technically’) against arrogance. The arrogance of a whole class of
professionals (Wall comments re famjust profs Care and Health conf on my law
2006 - details to follow) who for years had misinterpreted so arrogantly law
that was already in place – had a self serving spin on that law which as I
encountered it 2004 was thinking “this just doesn’t add up what they are all
saying [ref section 37] "
...I was right, they were all wrong....every
one.... And how they laughed at me for even questioning their rote
interpretation. I had no legal training...
Remember – if a whole profession - 100000
specialists, can get an issue like this so wrong, what other areas of basic
rights and justice can be similarly perverted to suit a class such as that i
really rather tripped up...?
The bare facts of the case (that started July 2005
on right to speak in public) are this.
The history (though interesting and melodramatic
with love fun and good music mixed in) is irrelevant and all that pertains to
‘privacy’ and common sense, is that from late 2003 off and on until late 2004 I
did a fair bit of broadcast interview work. I had become a spokesperson.
Experienced (female) media knew from meeting
me often I was the ‘real’ thing – a civilian, not a self promoter, sometimes
even a little raw from exhaustion (single parent) but always gentle wise
and balanced in my interpretation of justice - at that time often in
national news. I never blamed any individual even those who had caused me (and
my daughter who was far more important to me) real harm. I always blamed the
‘system’, or indeed that should be written ‘culture’ within the system.
Nobody ever in any way ‘complained’
about my appearances. All included reference by name to
my own daughter. Often quite a lot about our life together.
A (strategic – game playing) gagging order was
sought mid 2004 by a vindictive ex and her even more vindictive lawyer who
would get a higher rate of pay doing High Court work – injunctions are via HC.
There was no evidence (at the ex parte hearing) except that i had emailed a BBC
journalist - Melanie Doel, - i knew she was mum's friend, my
approach was an olive branch quite obviously – I floated that Melanie
should get us together to talk peace – obviously for the best interest of no
one else but indeed my daughter.
Wrongly the journalist passed my email to the
mothers lawyer poor bouffanted Dominic - a true character around Mid wales my
my how he so loved himself (I have personal apology in writing from the
then DG Mark Thompson I shall publish here soon). This absurdly formed the
basis of Hedley giving HC injunction - a very serious matter in reality 4
years gaol if you break them (as you do not get automatic half time as a
contemnor - useless UK journalists cannot even manage to get that little
factoid in when they speak of this matter.... ). This is an ex parte
thing - absurd.... there was no evidence I myself was even going
to say anything more in public! That's how bad your top senior Law
Lords can be.. Hedley was renowned as one of the smartest – often speaking on
radio 4.
In 2005 July as a protracted custody hearing was
settled – a no issue matter as a super lower judge who knew us well concluded,
both parents agreed in writing (and this was presented by the mother’s QC )
that a short press release would be quite acceptable. It was a case that had
been in public and such a lovely ending for the child concerned should rightly
also get a public paragraph. Nobody objected.
A few weeks later Hedley refuses to lift his
injunction (on only me – funny that... mum had said some right weird things
publicly in earlier years.. i never even mentioned mum in public never mind
tell the actual stories about her ) and continues his injunction on me 12
years more. Despite in his own words the resolution of the case being ‘remarkable’
and also should be ‘template’ for many other thousands at war over custody
(which they knew i worked responsibly to promote – it later became in 2010 the
basis of an overhaul in family aw – mediation and Parenting Agreements BY
DEFAULT - Esti had the first one ever in UK - she went on radio 1 in 2006
to speak about it - not dad her - i was with her but what a great thing
to experience for - that her parents mess helped others !!!! and she
could tell a radio 1 dj that ....wow heart in mouth time ). And Hedley in 2005
knew I was a responsible commentator on such things - the best person to
‘remark’.
The mother took no part in the Appeal court matter
(late 2005 – mid 2006)
Until around this time in the UK if media were
reporting issues where personal information may be an issue they would often
cite Price QCs ground-breaking test case “Clibbery vs Alan” as the cultural
reset on that issue.
This case did not affect me personally in
truth - I expected no “film” and frankly couldn't give a fig...most
of the 'story'' was sort of out if people read between the lines....but i did
as that year rolled out ponder how this case quite rightly should take over
from Clibbery v Allan and in fact arguably that was the case – Price featured
my case far more prominently on his ‘cases of note’ page than Clibbles... (from
2006)
29 Oct 2021 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McFarlane_(judge)
......and journalists “courts open to journalists”.
This is as they well know a rather fey way of describing a non issue.
What on earth was their private education FOR....?? This is the Teletubbie
version of existence...
THE issue in the real world ..... that it is
considered NORMAL that if someone – any citizen, perceives injustice that they
will contact a journalist. They email ‘em or WhatsApp or whatever them.. find ‘em
in a bar.....
..... THEY contact the journo...
LJ Wall said in 2010 social workers can be
Stalinist and Maoist..
In a separate case,
on which Sir Nicholas Wall also sat, Lord Justice Aikens described the actions
of social workers in Devon as “more like Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China than
the West of England”.
but he may as well have been sharing bar room
gossip.
WHY - until i came along....
In the real world what he meant is that he will
encounter over many official papers in a legal case - all sorts not just
Children Act, an overall picture (they have failed to supress - they try and
spin these cases and official papers are 95% SPIN) that over a period of time they
are Stalinist or Maoist. But that is from poring over thick volumes of dry
legal reports something he was doing for decades. How is any journalist even
going to know what injustice to look for? it takes days to get ones head into a
thick court bundle...
The grandstanding for radio 4 31
Oct 2021(ongoing so many years!) implies that there will be
advanced notice of some big important family court case the journalists will
all have advanced notice of and they will be jostling around the block for a place
at. The actual truth of these court processes – and they are – often over many
short hearings, is that no one ever knows what will happen and what schedule
can be advised. Or it is rare – Appeal Court test cases aside.
there are many small hearings waiting in
queues.. sometimes at last minute the litigants go into the mediation rooms to
agree something or be 'forced' to... no one knows when a judge can make the
final judgement... reporters will not be 'attending' never did never will...
How many millions spent on this issue so far ?????!
(my guess £50 mil... so many cases smaller than mine which alone must have cost
a few hundred grand; 2003 -5 several official government consolations on this
issue...
But....above all, please note this issue – my
injunction and privacy cases, were fundamentally a ‘test’ of....
.....every case appearance i put in (from early
2004) a formal application in writing to the bench “please
open the court doors” - OPEN justice... i started that (after Pelling's initial
far meeker start) - everyone said "don't be daft mate it'll never happen.."
Wonderful Judge Singh would sigh and smile at
me.... he knew he should have been able to say why ever not....
And they are all still stuck on that now despite
acres of newsprint and hours of radio 4 from 2006ish saying they will be....
"letting in journalists.."
Please note this same principle applies to all
sorts of other areas... Industrial/ medical tribunals in closed session etc
etc..... one local to me with terrible slanderous allegations against an
ex employee a Romanian woman who worked at an old folks home and has been
pushed out with the most embarrassing allegations (no evidence of course)
demands an open court.... nope they will gag her too.
But a recent rather good example (2020 to 21) of the real issue at the 'other end' of society came to light - or rather i sat exasperated at 'reality' that may as well be from a Victorian novel.
As some may know but most dare not say UK is world capital - probably joint with some USA regions, of the false allegation for some weird personal gain or vendetta. And the fey journalists were complicit in allowing their reporting to focus on certain words even from the likes of Gordon Brown / Blair.... everyone in UK seems to be some pathological 'bully' - even one of those two. I forget whom was said to have 'bullied' who. Come and hang around in rural lands and stand up for environmental law and you will discover the actual meaning of the word 'bully'. Actual threatened violence that is actually likely to happen, i think must be part of it
Local gossip - as always so poorly translated into coherent analysis of reality even among the educated of my region, rather enjoyed the fall from grace of Peter Florence one of the Hay Festival founders and main front man.
Allegations of 'bullying' i believe were central. I believe NOTHING in this country. I would like to hear the covert recordings (everyone makes!) myself, as i know no one in UK can ever be believed. Rare exceptions of course. The first VERY false malicious allegations i encountered in my mid 20s when a local lovely young woman was raped by ST Albans common one night. Seems a few months later it dodn't quite happen that way and she ended up in gaol for making up the hole thing. Bad example as so sensitive an issue quite rightly but i do know that every DWP worker for a decade literally hangs on the end of her phone line waiting for a slightly exasperated tone from the communicant who cannot think properly as her rightful sickpay money has been blocked and she hasn't eaten since the previous day, just waiting to report her exaspertaion on her file for 'bullying' her on the phone, or worse.
I have no interest as i have no evidence of any proportionate real life facts of that one matter.
However to see such a personage completely silent on his Facebook for months when up to that moment he was daily doodling on his wall is symptom of this all still being wrong - some notion that when some (non criminal evidence standards) action is underway the citizen should shut up when he has hosted many a talk on freedoms such as speech, smacks of the fundamental culture all being still very wrong.
Indeed said personage once known to me - and showing some years later not a fan of real freedom of speech, and i am no fan of him, and I do not value, but I very much do value indeed think it is fundamental that for the sake of his children who will have the 'whispering campaign' online for decades in full view to them, as their dad was a well known figure i think it is a fundamental human right and necessity for his children's' sake he MUST put his side. Almost all NDAS, gags, be they enforced or by default are against basic human rights. Florence should have continued publishing just as always - surely he would get that. I was sad for us all seeing his silence for so long.
Indeed also the complete inability to also SATIRISE... i was proud to be British in the 70s and 80s travelling the world back then for only one reason - we counterattacked dangerous cant and vanity via satire and society was so much the healthier for that compared to any other European country.
Satirising also keeps the freedom 'fighter' alive and just about nourished...
just a few days ago i emailed a lovely friend who had been in my archive room to collect some children's books for hers
Anyway, i hadn’t seen, you took the Douglas Adams WONDERFUL !!! - that room is my archive sort of and the favourite item i also had out next to the other box is photod attached here ...
Is attached – you must never say you ever met me around a school especially in Powys hahh hahh...... they probably still remember my name even if i gave up caring some years ago and hate me so much because of ....for example....
With my daughter as assistant - 2009 was active against Jack Straw in public (i won – hands down – in public) i once took her out of school age 10 (as a REAL world learning experience) to rush to a bbc interview she was doing my phone on the way - never had a hands free.... where ...
On asked by interviewer what are the issues within child / legal services in uk i replied, “let me ask my absolutely essential fabulous and so beautiful assistant and secretary [she sat next to me] to hand me something from our notes .... ahh yes ... i shall read out page 45 from Hitchhikers.... the social services, schools, lawyers, courts, barristers [especially your own], the lot....... can be summed up like this ..... they are often akin to The Vogons... let me read out for your listeners what a Vogon is.... xxxxx “
And that is true !!!
Anyway over and out i gave up years ago really no one ever does much round here
