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THE HUTTON REPORT AND THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE UK JUDICIARY by William J Spring
PRESS RELEASE 30th January 2004
My sympathies are entirely with Gavyn Davies, former Chairman of the BBC, who in his resignation statement this week commented that Ld Hutton's conclusions didn't fit the evidence.
What in fact he was saying was that Lord Hutton is bent.
But, that a UK judge should come to a perverse decision is not a new development for me, as UK judges are doing it all the time.
My family has more experience than most of the infinite capacity of British judges to ignore fundamental decencies, overturn basic freedoms, endorse corruption and oppress the unfree.
In 1986 my father died . He left what is now a small sum of money, but which in those days was not insignificant, especially for myself and my wife struggling to bring up our four young children and engaged in buying a house in France .
All of that money was stolen from us by a Birmingham firm of solicitors.
The whole story of how they managed this feat can be read at this web site http://www.crookjudges.human-rights.org (Link to LIST OF PAGES)
An ITV documentary was made of the affair entitled "Battle of Wills".
In my account on the web site you will note how my brother turned up from New Zealand and pressed Judge Boggiss in Birmingham to make an order forcing the lawyers to give us our money. I also made the same claim, leaving the bedside of my dying wife for one day, to go to the Birmingham Registry of The High Court to plead with Boggiss to allow us access to our money. But the brutal Boggiss refused.
Instead, knowingly and deliberately, he gave away all our money - everything my father worked for, has - because of Boggiss - instead been transmitted to this coterie of corrupt lawyers.
I still remember the shock I felt when my brother phoned me up from Birmingham to say we had lost.
A reading of the transcript of the Boggiss judgement might be a bit like reading the Hutton report!
The blame for the fraud perpetrated by Williamson and Soden was placed firmly on myself and my brother Ray, for causing trouble and coming from New Zealand to collect what was due to him. We were the equivalent of "Andrew Gilligan" - people on whom the blame for a crime could be dumped, because it is unthinkable for the UK judiciary ever to place the blame on the criminals, those who were truly responsible.
As with the British Government in the The Hutton Report, in our case the lawyers were totally exonerated. (They have kept the money to this day, protected by a rascally trade union, The Law Society who refused to investigate our complaint in any meaningful way.)
Later I took the case to the Appeal Court. I was legally aided, although my brother had returned to New Zealand.
Yet again, in fact to the disbelief of our own counsel, we lost, but only by the Appeal Court judges misrepresenting the facts and overturning the very basics of law.
Later on still I sued the lawyers for fraud.
I had to act in person as I could not find any lawyer willing to act for me in order to sue another firm of lawyers. The case dragged on for several days in the High Court before Judge Buckley.
The lawyers were represented by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund. I had hoped the case wd go to trial before a jury, but Judge Buckley would not allow it. In his summing up he exonerated the lawyers of fraud charges, and placed the costs of the case on me.
So that Hutton should blame the BBC has a curious resonance for me, having heard several learned judges unanimously come to similarly curious and immoral conclusions in our family saga - by the which my dear father's wealth was alienated for ever from his family, and we were penalised for complaining.
On the BBC PM programme last night 30th January I said that the Hutton report will increase alienation from the political process in UK as the Blairite Establishment does appear to have got the whole thing fixed.
The Hutton Enquiry was set up because of the concerns of the public, but those concerns are not reflected in the final report.
Malcolm Muggeridge once said to me " my dear boy, you'll find anything is permissible in life except bringing the law into disrepute" which is exactly what Lord Hutton has done.
In the BBC's surprise and trauma I recall the shock and disbelief of my brother and myself at the Boggiss decision.
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