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So how long has Canada had reading of rights?

Sun, 18/01/2015 - 7:09pm — Carol
Looking up history of Kojak on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak#Cultural_impact came across ...

In Canada, some Canadians were concerned that the show left an impression in Canadian youth that they had rights, such as to be informed of an offense, and that it depicted American police reading people their rights in accordance with the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona]Miranda ruling[/url]. In his 1980 book [i]Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada[/i], American sociologist Edgar Fredenberg who came to Canada in the early 1970s to avoid the draft was concerned that Canadians were more upset over depictions of Americans practising their civil rights on a TV show dealing with civil rights issues than that they did not have those rights.

What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick...

Wed, 05/11/2014 - 2:20pm — Carol

Seen on Twitter - What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick....

Inside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour - Molly Crabapple Returns to Guantanamo Bay | VICE United States

Thu, 12/09/2013 - 12:44pm — Carol

Excellent article

Inside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour - Molly Crabapple Returns to Guantanamo Bay

By Molly Crabapple

Cameron: Government and I specifically promised was that there should be no closures or reorganisations unless they had support

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:25am — Carol

So the Judiciary have noticed that the current government doesn't follow the law and doesn't keep its promises

Give the Devil the benefit of the law?

Wed, 24/07/2013 - 12:00pm — Carol

Robert Bolt:

Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man’s laws, not God’s– and if you cut them down—and you’re just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

A Man for All Seasons

Thanks to http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2013/07/24/cameron-porn-advisors-websit... for the reminder...

Last para of Entick v Carrington 1765… shows how jealous of our liberties we once were. Now we shrug shoulders at GCHQ

Sun, 23/06/2013 - 11:47pm — Carol
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/1765/J98.html

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Wed, 23/11/2011 - 12:45am — Carol

More troubles for the IPCC

In breach of constitutional principle that access to justice is a right, and its absence "an enemy of the rule of law"

Tue, 22/11/2011 - 11:52pm — Carol

Thought the Guardian called it right again

  • Legal aid reform: poor law

    Editorial: change is never painless, but it needs tackling with a surgeon's scalpel, not the scythe that Ken Clarke has armed himself with

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Thoughtful contributions on alienation

Thu, 11/08/2011 - 3:25pm — Carol

So, in his testimony to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Rupert Murdoch says:

 


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