FREEDOM OF SPEECH COMMON LAW Posted on March 10, 2012 by Tony Dean Rant On UK!

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Justice (We should perhaps draw attention to Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which encompassed what was believed to be common law principles at the time when it was written in 1950, Article 10 provides the right to freedom of expression.) ARTICLE 10 Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice has recently said:Courts are basing too many of their decisions on European human rights legislation, rather than centuries-old English common law, English common law, which has built up over the past 900 years, comprises legal decisions made by judges who have applied their common sense and knowledge of legal precedents to the facts placed before them. However, since the Human Rights Act came into force in 2000, judges have been required to take into account human rights laws made in Strasbourg. This has meant that increasingly they have ignored English common law. Are we becoming so focused on Strasbourg and the Convention that instead of incorporating Convention principles within and developing the common law according to a single coherent unit, we are allowing the Convention to assume an unspoken priority over the common law. Or is it that we just still on honeymoon with the Convention? We must beware. It would be a sad day if the home of the common law lost its standing as a common law authority. We are allowing the Convention to assume an unspoken priority over the common law. We must beware. It would be a sad day if the home of the common law lost its standing as a common Law authority. Am I alone in thinking that we are being presented with far too many authorities, both our own and from Europe, which do not bind us at all domestically. the final word should rest with the UK Supreme Court, not Strasbourg. He added that it was up to judges to do their bit to save English common law. He said: The primary responsibility for saving the common law system of precedents is primarily a matter for us as judges.

I am about to make an application to have the offences Emma West is charged with in the Croydon Crown Court dropped altogether the Article 10 of the Human Rights Act clearly states that Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. Her court case is set for trial in June 2012 so there is plenty of time to get opposition established against such onerous laws which according to the act is unlawful.