2003, was in many ways the year that I took my eye off the ball. Just over 30 years in the service, and riding high on the success of two of the greatest, criminal cases in British history – John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer and Nicholas Van Hoogstraten – those were what one would really, call ‘wow’ moments.
PARERE PRO VERITATE COMPATIBILITY ISSUES BETWEEN MAGNA CARTA (1215) Ch.54 AND THE YOUTH JUSTICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT 1999 S.53 AND 54 IN CERTAIN MURDER TRIALS The accepted and settled rule of law is that a witness is competent if he is able to give evidence and compellable if he may lawfully be required to give evidence. Competent witnesses are in the normal course but not necessarily compellable. However, the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 S.53 enacted…
Canaan Sodindo Banana was born in 1936 in Zimbabwe then known as Rhodesia. He went to a missionary school and became ordained as a Methodist Minister in 1962. He was a liberation theologist, a movement which used socialist principles of Christ to promote the rights of the poor. Canaan Banana began the dangerous policy of preaching against the racist-white regime of Ian Smith. He wrote an updated version of the Lord’s Prayer with such lines as:
Covid-19 is not the greatest crisis in our history. It is not even the greatest public health crisis in our history. However, the lockdown is, without doubt, the greatest interference with personal liberty in our history.
On the 30thMay 2009 I was requested by an attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Hay Al Mansur St in Iraq an informal opinion on the question surrounding the territory of Gibraltar.
Any jurist worth anything will ask of the Government a very simple question when it comes to COVID-19: – Did the person die with Coronavirus, or, Did the person die because of Coronavirus? You see there is a gargantuan difference between COVID-19 being the actual cause of the death, and COVID-19 being found in a person who died of other causes. Most of the news reports clearly state that the ‘majority’ of cases died having ‘other underlying’ symptoms’. Those…