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THE LATEST NEWS, AS IT IS RECEIVED, OF THE
Persecution of an Old Campaigner Colin Jordan |
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Leeds Crown Court Case T 2000 1984 R. v. J. C. C. Jordan and A. J. S. Hancock APPLICATION FOR WRITTEN RECORD OF JUDGE'S DECISIONS AT HEARING 23 NOVEMBER, 2001, REQUIRED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT IN LONDON AS PART OF AN APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW At the hearing on 23 November, 2001, Judge N. Jones laid down two decisions which the Defendant is going to challenge by way of an Application to the High Court of Justice in London, Queens Bench Division, for a Judicial Review, as he gave notice at the hearing he would be doing. Those two decisions are as follows:- (1) The second of two conditions the Judge imposed in promulgating a stay of prosecution of the Defendant in the light of the reports from three cardiac consultants that the Defendant is definitely unfit for trial; this second condition laying down that he is not to engage in political or other activity that a court could reckon to demonstrate that he has become fit for trial, a condition which has been reported by both the Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post of Saturday, 24 November, 2001, and which the Defendant holds to be equivalent to a suspended sentence for the rest of his life, detached from and by-passing and obviating professional medical opinion, vesting courts with a power to act without recourse to a doctor or medical consultant. As the Defendant immediately told the Judge in court as soon as he imposed this condition, he, the Defendant, would not at any time in any court in the land accept such a purely political imposition. Such an imposition is tantamount to an act of surveillance, censorship and prohibition conflicting with the purpose of the Human Rights Act of the U.K. under Article 6 of which the Judge has been obliged to stay the prosecution in consequence of the Defendant's submission in this precise respect. (2) The evasion, and thereby in effect the rejection of the Defendant's Application of 18 October, 2001, for the court to censure the seizure of and order the immediate return to the Defendant of 'Special Procedure Material' ('Journalistic Material') in excess of 790 items unlawfully seized without the requisite authority of a circuit judge in disregard of the-Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The court had been reminded of this outstanding Application by a 'Final Submission' from the Defendant of 20 November, 2001, just before the hearing on 23 November. Yet at that hearing the Judge held the matter over, unresolved, till next April, four months ahead, when a co-defendant may be put on trial, accepting the spurious argument from the Crown Prosecution Service that the material might be required for that other trial, whereas, if the 'Special Procedure Material' was illegally seized, it should clearly not be retained for any possible future use and with such use at least most unlikely if not utterly unimaginable. Therefore it can but seem that the Judge's treatment of the Application is a wrongful attempt to evade the issue of the Application. The Defendant insists that this property Application can be and needs to be dealt with and decided now without months of further delay, the Defendant having already been deprived of the material in question, needed for his work as a journalist, for three years and four months. The Application form for Judicial Review, N 461, issued by the Administrative Court in London, specifies as one of the documents required in support of an Application: 'Where the claim for judicial review relates to a decision of a court or tribunal, an approved copy of the reasons for reaching that decision.' Thus the Defendant here requests and requires Judge N. Jones now to arrange the issue to the Defendant of a written record of his rulings in the above two respects, certified by affixture of the court stamp. He does so having understood from having spoken to a clerk of the court after the termination of the hearing that a written record of judgement is not provided without an approved application. 26 November, 2001 (signed) J. C. C. Jordan Defendant Copy:- Administrative Court, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL |
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From Gothic Ripples, September 2001: "THE CASE CONTINUES. The 4th preliminary hearing at Leeds Crown Court in the prosecution against me took place on 11 May, concerned with my medical condition. At it the Crown Prosecution Service produced a cardiac consultant of their own arrangement who had examined me and reported me to be currently unfit for trial, but proposed various treatments which might render me fit. Under cross-examination by me he admitted they involved the possibility of harmful side-effects. The judge thereupon ruled there should be a further hearing on 3 September to consider a further report to be required from my own consultant. Shortly afterwards I sent in a report from another consultant I engaged, a Dr Boyle, who said like my first one, Dr Williams, that I am unfit and expected to remain so. On 3 September the awaited further report from Dr Williams had not yet reached the court which thereupon fixed yet another hearing for 4 October to consider it." |
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HEARING AT 2pm AT LEEDS CROWN COURT 11th MAY 2001: Colin Jordan challenged for a Stay of Trial on health grounds. After a 45-minute summing up the judge ordered the proceedings to continue but with further medical reports of Jordan's heart condition in August. "The Attorney General is adamant that the trial goes ahead." Jordan is to apply for a Judicial Review under Article 6 of the Human Rights legislation in regard of his fitness to endure the expected 30-day trial. |
TRIAL POSTPONED in pursuit of medical reports From Gothic Ripples No 43, May 2001 |
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At the Pleas and Directions hearing on the 14th March, Colin Jordan's quite favourable medical report was not accepted by the judge. There is now to be another Pleas and Directions hearing on the 14 May, by which time another medical report by a court-appointed physician will have been obtained. If the trial goes ahead, it could be around October or November. It is expected to last 3 4 weeks. Tony Hancock, who is Jordan's co-defendant, accused of "aiding and abetting" by committing the heinous crime of printing his material (probably the first case in British history of a printer being prosecuted for what he prints), applied to be excused attendance at the next Pleas and Directions hearing on the grounds that he had to travel hundreds of miles to hear matters which did not concern him. The judge, who was very antagonistic, refused. On 27 February Colin Jordan made five submissions under the Human Rights legislation and requested that the trial be transferred back to York Crown Court. All his applications were rejected. He now faces commuting a long distance to court every day for the trial. |
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R. (Renegades) v. JORDAN Committal Proceedings Disrupted by Submission From Gothic Ripples No 41, August 2000 |