I thought they'd gone? Didn't they lose an election or something? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim SHARPE" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] British Justice | Sure can. British justice has been generally crap since the Atlee government | got in. | | Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham. | | -----Original Message----- | From: Angela & Kostas Nicolaou [mailto:[email protected]] | Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:20 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] British Justice | | You can't compare that Jim surely with a tin of spaghetti. | | Angela | ----- Original Message ----- | From: Jim SHARPE <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:42 PM | Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] British Justice | | | > There's also the Damilola case. | > | > Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham. | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: mikemail [mailto:[email protected]] | > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:02 PM | > To: [email protected] | > Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] British Justice | > | > TIN OF SPAGHETTI COSTS TAXPAYERS £10,000 | > By Jeremy Armstrong | > | > A TIN of spaghetti cost the taxpayer £10,000 yesterday because a thief | > insisted on trial by jury. | > Stephen Phillips, denied stealing the 92p can despite 30 previous | > convictions for shoplifting. | > He claimed to have slipped the tin into his pocket and "forgotten about | it" | > after deciding to buy bread. | > A jury at Newcastle Crown Court took 32 minutes to convict the 23-year-old | > of stealing the can from a Co-op store in South Shields. | > But the hearing, involving 24 people, cost £8,000. Bringing Phillips, of | > Sunderland, back for sentence will add £2,000. Magistrates could have | dealt | > with it at a fraction of the cost. | > The thief defended his decision to go to the Crown Court. | > He said: "It is every person's right to have a trial by jury and I wanted | it | > to be heard in the big court." | > Last night local Labour MP Ronnie Campbell demand a law change to stop | such | > cases. He said: "This is stupid justice, not proper justice." | > | > | > --- | > | > | > --- | > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. | > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 | > | > | > | > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== | > Visit List General Archives at: | > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS | > | > ============================== | > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, | go to: | > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | > | | | ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== | If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, | simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, | or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. | | ============================== | To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go | to: | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | | | --- | Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 | | --- | Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 | | | | ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== | Visit and support: | http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites | | ============================== | To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002