Monthly Archives: November 2007

Too young?!

November 12, 2007 – 5:42 pm

According to the excellent new blog Current Awareness a young woman has won her discrimination claim for being sacked for the possession of an excessive amount of youth. The decision is not too alarming since it was an uncontested hearing. It is a bit odd since the legislation was targeted at wrinkly discrimination.
Nonetheless it’s still […]

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The sad reality of poverty

November 9, 2007 – 8:03 pm

Geeklawyer was moved by the tale of an 11 year old girl in the Philippines whose dire existence was a dirge of poverty hunger
deprivation and misery. So ground down was she that it drove her to suicide by hanging.
Her family lived in a shanty home without running water or electricity; she only wished for a […]

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wrinkly bashing a hate crime?!

November 9, 2007 – 10:37 am

Attacks on the elderly are to be a hate crime the CPS say. What the flying fuck is that about? Sure, the elderly can be vulnerable and it’s a bit gutless to target them: but an aggravating factor in sentencing? sure, but a hate crime? Come to that what on earth is a hate crime?
Oh […]

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Time and litigation wait for no man.

November 9, 2007 – 9:14 am

When Geeklawyer was a student he worked in a loony bin for ?2/hour. About a sixtieth of that modern students get working in employment tribunals. You might think that they’d do a decent job but Nick Leung tells Geeklawyer of employment tribunal appeal? UKEAT/0486/07/JOJ that indicates otherwise.
When filing the court forms this student/amateur lawyer pressed […]

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Granny rape - time for D to pick up the bill?

November 5, 2007 – 10:14 am

Geeklawyer awaits with some interest the House of Lords decision on Mrs A’s claim that she should recover damages from Iorworth Hoare who raped her in 1989 when she was 59. She didn’t sue at the time on the basis he wasn’t worth anything. Good advice at the time; but he in 2004 he won […]

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Sauce for the goose?

November 3, 2007 – 7:27 pm

In the aftermath of the execution of de Menezes and the Metropolitan filth’s conviction under, bizarrely, health and safety law Geeklawyer was a little tickled to see the contrast with another incident. This time a female detective was knocked over by the open passenger door of a reversing car. The door was opened by a […]

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de Menezes - police found guilty on health and safety charges

November 1, 2007 – 2:20 pm

About bloody time.
The CPS should now reconsidering their corrupt decision not to give a jury a chance to render an opinion on the firearms officers and senior officers who executed him.
The jury said no culpability of Commander Dick - I disagree but at least a jury got a say.
Details of any fine - potentially unlimited […]

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