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Somewhat, but it also seems Mr Justice Jay is just an asshole to litigants in person - in direct contradiction to the rules he was supposed to follow.

Mr Justice Jay does not have a good record of dealing with litigants-in-person. Two years later, in a different case, he behaved so poorly that the Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court found that he’d bullied a litigant-in-person. The Supreme Court found that he had aimed a “barrage of hostility” at the litigant-in-person, and “harassed and intimidated him in ways which surely would never have occurred if the claimant had been represented”.

We’d expect the judgment would contain the discussion of whether these restrictions were necessary and proportionate, and whether they were compatible with the exclusions in the Protection from Harassment Act. It does not. A lawyer would surely have raised these arguments, but Ms Berki of course had no lawyer.

Without going through the appeals with a fine toothed comb, I couldn’t say whether she raised these arguments along the way or if this is just an observation of the author. However she never really had an appeal, she was denied the chance to any full hearing at any stage over the last 12 years.

Now DataVita, which was supposed to bring 3,400 jobs to Lanarkshire by building a 500MW datacentre

How the hell is a single data centre expected to bring 3,400 jobs?! Sounds like DataVita’s claims across the board need to be reviewed.

Awesome, that’s pretty much what I thought.

Just for clarity though, does the commercial ANPR automatically provide data to police, or is that data only available upon a lawful request with a court order?

Also, the article mentions data being kept for a year. Is this a requirement for commercial ANPR?

I’ll also add that requests to the public DVLA database are only lawful if they have actual need to request that information, eg to send a ticket for a breach in parking terms. They can’t access the name and address linked to every plate that drives by the camera.

The thing is the injunction also prevents anyone who knows about it from publicising it. Even taxpolicy.org.uk here are on very shaky ground, and they explicitly didn’t publish parts of the order.

Don’t forget the bit where it explicitly names the only doctors she’s allowed to speak to about this, who don’t work at her GP surgery anymore. So she can’t speak to a doctor about any of this except in an emergency.

And the appeal court judges.

Gotta love it when they say behaviour that any reasonable man would find contemptible is contempt of court.

Mr Justice Jay should consider his position. Same of the judges who sat on the 3 appeals she’s been denied over the last 12 years.

The large majority of PMs have been appointed by the party mid-term, through the democratic process the party established for that. However, nearly all of them were actually voted on by the party MP’s or the party members, against other potential party leaders. Burnham is unique in that he stood unopposed, so there was never really any vote on him.

Labour’s process for selecting the party leader is, overall, a democratic process, but the path that Burnham took through it isn’t really all that democratic. This is especially true because it would be party members - the public - who would’ve voted. The same party members who chose Corbyn in the past, they were denied any say over Burnham because the party’s “democratic process” bypasses them in this circumstance.

The only people who voted for Burnham to be PM were the handful of MP’s who nominated him. And yet, he harps on about having a “mandate” to enact policy, as if he took the party through a general election and the public had thereby told him what we want.

The interests he represents, who gave him a mandate, are apparently not those of the general public.

would struggle with the complexity of Arabic numerals

This is an imaginary problem.

I was thinking on this when I wrote my comment above, and I’m not quite sure.

Either there’s a muddying of terms, where you have ANPR as a technology (which anyone could implement), and the police have their own, separate network of ANPR cameras. Then the police can obtain footage from private cameras as needed through warrants.
Or private entities submit their data to an ANPR database that the police maintain.

Regardless, there’s not one big private network of ANPR cameras that the government have permitted to be installed on public land, and the police still have checks and balances in place to prevent abuse.

You can also carry knives around for work, or various other reasons. It’s not like chef’s knives are illegal, and so long as you have a valid reason for moving it from A to B it shouldn’t be a problem. Unless you start brandishing it or something.

Law enforcement in the US extensively use the private sector to bypass the courts and get around having to get a warrant.

More specifically, Flock is a private company. Because it’s private and commercial, police can just purchase access and don’t need a warrant.

ANPR in the UK is run by police. Using it falls under the same rules as any other police investigation.

And because US law enforcement have been using the private sector to bypass the need for a warrant.

The difference is ANPR is that Flock is a private business, collecting data and stalking people across the US for commercial purposes, which sold this data to law enforcement - meanwhile law enforcement were using the private sector to bypass the checks and balances of court warrants.

In the UK, ANPR is an official tool, not private. Police need to get authorisation to use it, and it is not used for commercial purposes.

It’s still wank, but it’s not quite as wank.

In the UK our main fireworks night is 5 Nov - tonight.

It’s Guy Fawkes night, or bonfire night, celebrating the time when a guy tried to blow up the House of Parliament centuries ago.

So it’s not really anything like new years.

Because having a less fewer local police force is exactly what people want.

Kier Starmer steps down for seemingly no reason in particular, then Burnham gets nominated by a handful of MP’s, stands unopposed and thus unelected by the party membership, and magically becomes PM with hardly anyone really having a say in it all.

Felt this way about lemm.ee :(