David Allen Green
Journalist and Legal Commentator, New Statesman
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Journalist and lawyer. Legal correspondent of New Statesman and writer of Jack of Kent blog. Main Twitter account at @JackofKent.
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tweets This evening - am discussing the uses and abuses of law with @newsbrooke at @ThoughtOutWords bit.ly/12g2wjD Please do come along.
THE LEGAL METHOD
eventbrite.co.uk — THE LEGAL METHOD Pathway to Truth or Truncheon for the Powerful? We live in a society governed by the rule of law. We go to the law to settle our differences and find fairness. The alternative is violence and vigilantism. But is the law all it's cracked up to be?Resource Page at Jack of Kent on #DanielMorgan - relevant links and posts to follow the emerging story: bit.ly/11YrvJn
Daniel Morgan - Resource Page
jackofkent.com — This is a resource page on the murder of Daniel Morgan and its aftermath, including the judge-led panel announced on 10 May 2013.Will there finally be justice for Daniel Morgan?
newstatesman.com — A judge-lead inquiry may uncover extensive police and media corruption over 25 years. The Home Secretary's announcement today of a judge-lead panel to consider the murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987 is both an end and a potential beginning. It signals that a twenty-five year campaign by the family of Daniel Morgan has finally achieved an appropriate independent inquiry.Jack of Kent - Resource Page on the Abu #Qatada deportation case: bit.ly/1904OqM
Abu Qatada - Resource Page
jackofkent.com — The deportation case of Abu Qatada is notable for its duration. The first deportation notice was issued in 2005, and he still has not been deported. To complement a post I am preparing on this now infamous case, here is a timeline of the key legal events and other relevant links.Can new Act clean up libel law?
thelawyer.com — New Defamation Act's demand that claimants prove serious damage first could end the gravy train of McLibels The Defamation Act 2013 will not rid the libel law of England and Wales of all of its many abuses. For example, the big problem of costs is only indirectly addressed.RT @DAaronovitch: The whole point of the BBC censoring the Ding Dong song has been obliterated by the BBC running top news story about i ...
RT @SLSingh: Sir Edward Garnier MP wants to block the one Defamation Bill clause that would've stopped chiropractors from suing me http: ...
Call to arms to stop threat to Defamation Bill
libelreform.org — The national campaign for Libel Reform - a petition to change England's unjust libel laws - a coalition of English PEN, Index on Censorship and Sense About ScienceOur BBC is world class. Unfortunately, that world is Oz.
RT @mr_ceebs: perhaps the bbc should just bleep out the word witch as thats what people find offensive
@loveandgarbage Is it pronounced "ding-dong" or "ding dong"?
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