Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Miscarriages of Justice just "the legal process taking its course"
Your friend and mine, Charles Clarke, shows his contempt for justice yet again by saying that anyone who is a victim of a miscarriage of justice should not receive any compensation if they win their appeal on their first attempt, because it's just "the legal process taking its course".
What kind of legal process is that? He might as well say that a miscarriage of justice is perfectly acceptable because of the appeal system. Try telling that to Angela Canning, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. She would now get no compensation. And what kind of legal system is it where you need to appeal two or three times? A crap one, that's right. It also infers that we can no longer trust any court decision ever, as there may be an appeal round the corner which will over-rule it, because that's the legal process, folks.
What kind of legal process is that? He might as well say that a miscarriage of justice is perfectly acceptable because of the appeal system. Try telling that to Angela Canning, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. She would now get no compensation. And what kind of legal system is it where you need to appeal two or three times? A crap one, that's right. It also infers that we can no longer trust any court decision ever, as there may be an appeal round the corner which will over-rule it, because that's the legal process, folks.
