tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post8874956072798165072..comments2024-03-26T07:51:43.186+00:00Comments on Mabinogogiblog: Akmal Sheikh, Paul Clarke, law in mindless actionDocRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-56714084197139338792010-01-01T13:09:43.101+00:002010-01-01T13:09:43.101+00:00The point is that law badly formulated and rigidly...The point is that law badly formulated and rigidly applied can give unjust results.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-72841683578722724862010-01-01T10:17:25.335+00:002010-01-01T10:17:25.335+00:00Yes, I did read that link, along with many others ...Yes, I did read that link, along with many others about the case. Maybe he was unlucky enough to have someone throw the gun into his garden, and given his previous convictions for possession of a stun-gun, affray, and handling stolen goods (and getting cleared on appeal for assault, despite admitting attacking a DVLA inspector with a broom handle), he decided to sit on it for a while. Maybe Surrey police really do have a vendetta against him on the basis of a relationship he had/is having with a female officer. But on the balance of what I have read in the press (sadly not as informative as a court transcript) it appears that he has extensive previous history, and behaved in very odd manner when he found the gun. A former soldier should have known better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-19858141612813036092009-12-31T20:01:30.161+00:002009-12-31T20:01:30.161+00:00Anonoymous, did you actually look at the link in t...Anonoymous, did you actually look at the link in the text?DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-21946267435349469662009-12-31T19:45:43.425+00:002009-12-31T19:45:43.425+00:00'Equally' isn't the right word - in th...'Equally' isn't the right word - in theory I could have left it there, but it's not surprising that the suspicion should come to rest on the person who found it in their own garden and failed to hand it in for four days, particularly when they already have a conviction for possession of a stun-gun. Maybe that was a set-up, and the Surrey police do have a grudge against him, but the accused could always claim that. I think this case left egg on the faces of a lot of the popular press and the bloggers when more of the facts behind the case came out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-75054449025269354782009-12-31T09:42:23.526+00:002009-12-31T09:42:23.526+00:00Anonymous
Equally, it is possible that the gun was...Anonymous<br />Equally, it is possible that the gun was left in his garden by Anonymous.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-49147779275024943102009-12-31T07:02:05.932+00:002009-12-31T07:02:05.932+00:00Thats was really interesting and touching.Thanks f...Thats was really interesting and touching.Thanks for sharing this beautiful blog and information with us.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.r4-nintendo-ds.com.ar" rel="nofollow">nintendo dsi r4</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05076522774118249750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-53231933659966172342009-12-30T17:32:26.031+00:002009-12-30T17:32:26.031+00:00I have little/no sympathy for Clarke. He had previ...I have little/no sympathy for Clarke. He had previous convictions for possession of a stun-gun and for affray, and waited four days before taking the gun to a police station, rather than securing it at home and getting the police to collect it. To be honest, I suspect that his story of finding the gun was a load of bull, and he was lucky not to get convicted of a more serious offence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-11843318572627077172009-12-29T12:49:21.676+00:002009-12-29T12:49:21.676+00:00Another dimension in the sad episode about the lat...Another dimension in the sad episode about the late Akmal Shaikh was that Chinese judiciaries are not independent in the Montesquian sense, but an expedient arm of the Executive in carrying out policy. Eternal vigilance demands us to ask: Is the British judiciary approximating this model, or distancing therefrom?<br /><br />This applies even for the common-law Hong Kong SAR (see, for example, interpretation issued by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the HKSAR residency issue) and in Taiwan (one could argue that under the Chen Presidency, he attempted reforms attempting judicial independence, but arguably the efforts were not ‘Chinese’ ... and look where it got him now: locked up for life).<br /><br />Reprieve UK, which has done brilliant work for the Guantánamo detainees, asked us to petition the British government to enter an amicus curiæ brief at the Chinese Supreme Court. I wondered about this and looked up on the web: There is no such thing as amicus curiæ in the mainland PRC system (there is in common-law HKSAR).<br /><br />It is a poignant reminder for us that our presumptions about other systems of government may not always be accurate. In the present case, two options are open to us: try to change the system (but see the Liú Xiǎobō case); or avoid placing ourselves within the jurisdiction thereof.Kaihsu Taihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286678317421340212noreply@blogger.com