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DVLA says council snoopers are free to take the WEE

Police detention without cause

It's your duty to sue the police for false imprisonment if they detained you without cause. It's because not enough people sue them that their attitude is as it is.

Courts bar dodgy documents from divorce cases

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Sense of humour failure?

Fruit of the poisoned tree

Yo Neuberger! Obviously UK law should adopt the US doctrine of fruit of the poisoned tree across all areas of the law. If any evidence is obtained by any criminal or civil law actionable process it should be totally inadmissible and the person(s) obtaining it open to action in either or both courts.

Cops taser Somerset chap's nether regions

Armed Policing

And I want my country back: No armed police unless a magistrate is present to control them.

Cameron asks Obama for McKinnon compromise

Cameron the "diplomat"

Holding my nose firmly I voted for the hung parliament as the least worst option. What I did not vote for was diplomatic fudge where firm political action is required.

Repeal this one-sided extradition treaty as a high priority.

Yorks cops charge Segway rider under 1835 road law

Electric Propulsion Devices

Not at all eco-friendly as their batteries require re-charging with far from "green" mains electricity!

UK.gov scraps stop'n'search terror power

ECHR

Section 44: Mrs May appears to have "told" the police not to use the powers, which nevertheless remain on the statute book and continue to be used for random searches of vehicles and presumably the drivers (or have I misunderstood it?).

ID card scheme: A small part appears to be in the process of being removed while the main provisions surge forward into law.

RIPA: Nothing.

Unfair extradition treaty with US: Utter silence.

Immediate removal of inoccent persons' DNA from criminal database: Kicked into the long grass once again despite a unanimous verdict of all 17 judges (including the UK judge) against the government in its judgment 215 [GC] on 4th December 2008.

Sorry, but I reserve judgment on this government at this stage.

Police (mis)conduct

I thoroughly concur with g e.

When a minister states publically that any police officer who misuses the power entrusted to them will be dimissed with maximum publicity and their pension rights cancelled and the IPCC is radically reformed to be actually independent, I will believe it.

It will, of course, never happen, as the police know only too well. After all, who would do the government's dirty work if we had an honest police service accountable to the people?

Humanity evolved to cope with 30°C+ heat, says prof

To ming or not to ming...

The stink is the by-product of the bacterial degredation of the sweat. Capitalism is to blame for people worrying about minging! I believe that the personal hygiene industry was largely created by the advertising campaigns of Lifeboy soap etc.

Other endurance predators.

I like your (plausible) theory, but it doesn't explain why the hunting dogs of Africa and the peccaries of South America (for example) are hairy (although admittedly short-haired), and neither species sweat (although both do ming a bit...)

UK's secret surveillance regime 'does not breach human rights'

ECHR

And I thought that it stood for the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. A sad day for the liberty of the individual. Clearly RIPA should be repealed and surveillance permitted only on the writ of a High Court Master or more senior judge who must be convinced of the essential nature of the surveillance.

McKinnon family awaits final, final extradition decision

You really don't get it!!!!!

1. The stalinista Bliar/Broon axis of incompetence/malicious envy/venal corruption committed this country to a lopsided treaty which means that UK citizens can be handed to the yanks on demand, but their citizens are almost impossible to extradite to this country.

2. The treaty was supposed to apply to terrorist suspects in the illegal "war" against an abstract phantom enemy, namely terrorism.

3. "Terrorism" is not a tanglble physical enemy and is by definition unquantifiable not least since one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter (ever heard of Nelson Mandela?). The war therefore lacks a legitimate casus belli.

Get it now?

Lopsided extradition treaty

Do you mean whether Theresa May has bigger balls than Postman Pat?