Battering ram about to splinter the gate of Nicola Sturgeon’s long-impregnable keep (hopefully):
GORDON DANGERFIELD: MARK HIRST’S CLAIM OF MALICIOUS PROSECUTION —
“Think of any ordinary person – or Rape Crisis Scotland itself, for that matter – trying to persuade the police even to investigate such allegations, let alone persuading COPFS to prosecute them in the highest court in the land, and you’ll get an idea of just how powerful these accusers are, and just how much of a mouthpiece for them Rape Crisis Scotland, the police and COPFS [‘Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’ - sole prosecuting authority in Scotland] have become. […] The Scottish Government’s patronage and control of organisations like Rape Crisis Scotland – and the prominent presence in such organisations of Sturgeon’s personal clique of zealots – goes way wider than Mark’s case, as everyone who has been following their disgraceful attacks on the rights of Scottish women will be all too well aware.”
Thank you for the link Fearghas. Another example demonstrating that death and taxes are not the only two constants in life and that there exists not a single aspect of life involving human beings where someone, somewhere, will not kick the backside out of anything.
One of the Below The Line (BTL) posters in this link, Daisy Walker, details some of these in the way the Police Service went outside procedures and processes in this way. Conversely, I saw a report of a recent US example in which the processes for dealing with sexual harassment and rape in US Universities was being used as a political football with the core problem being a totally inadequate set of procedures for testing evidence which seriously disadvantaged victims of rape and sexual harassment.
Sub-standard not fit for purpose procedures which were designed on partisan lines well below the standards and principles of proper due process. Rather than properly deal with the core systemic problem the apparent favoured route, as usual, is to further weaken the process rather than strengthen it by arguing over the principle of an evidence based approach.
A further issue of concern in the UK can be found in recent reports about the decline of legal aid from two decades of financial cuts. With a significant drop in legal representation for defendants as a result of more legal representative moving to the more financially stable prosecution services.
Battering ram about to splinter the gate of Nicola Sturgeon’s long-impregnable keep (hopefully):
GORDON DANGERFIELD: MARK HIRST’S CLAIM OF MALICIOUS PROSECUTION —
“Think of any ordinary person – or Rape Crisis Scotland itself, for that matter – trying to persuade the police even to investigate such allegations, let alone persuading COPFS to prosecute them in the highest court in the land, and you’ll get an idea of just how powerful these accusers are, and just how much of a mouthpiece for them Rape Crisis Scotland, the police and COPFS [‘Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’ - sole prosecuting authority in Scotland] have become. […] The Scottish Government’s patronage and control of organisations like Rape Crisis Scotland – and the prominent presence in such organisations of Sturgeon’s personal clique of zealots – goes way wider than Mark’s case, as everyone who has been following their disgraceful attacks on the rights of Scottish women will be all too well aware.”
https://gordondangerfield.com/2021/07/26/mark-hirsts-claim-of-malicious-prosecution/
Thank you for the link Fearghas. Another example demonstrating that death and taxes are not the only two constants in life and that there exists not a single aspect of life involving human beings where someone, somewhere, will not kick the backside out of anything.
One of the Below The Line (BTL) posters in this link, Daisy Walker, details some of these in the way the Police Service went outside procedures and processes in this way. Conversely, I saw a report of a recent US example in which the processes for dealing with sexual harassment and rape in US Universities was being used as a political football with the core problem being a totally inadequate set of procedures for testing evidence which seriously disadvantaged victims of rape and sexual harassment.
Sub-standard not fit for purpose procedures which were designed on partisan lines well below the standards and principles of proper due process. Rather than properly deal with the core systemic problem the apparent favoured route, as usual, is to further weaken the process rather than strengthen it by arguing over the principle of an evidence based approach.
A further issue of concern in the UK can be found in recent reports about the decline of legal aid from two decades of financial cuts. With a significant drop in legal representation for defendants as a result of more legal representative moving to the more financially stable prosecution services.