Iain McKie
Joined: 08 May 2007
Posts: 262
Location: Ayr, Scotland.
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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: One flew over the cuckoo’s nest |
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“I have been thinking” – a phrase that instils fear and trepidation into my wife.
Many postings on this forum over the past year have alluded to the difficulties victims of injustice encounter when trying to have their cases considered.
This has led to calls for a total root and branch review of our justice system.
One area of the law that is flourishing is the compensation market were the courts at times seem more than willing to grant permission to pursue some weird and wonderful causes. There are also many cases where rights are pursued without any thought to the responsibilities that go with them.
Take today’s Daily Mail story for instance.
| Quote: | A burglar is claiming taxpayers' money to sue the Ministry of Justice for refusing to release him from prison for sex-change treatment. Clive Watson, 39, says his right not to be discriminated against has been violated because he is unable to have surgery to become a woman.
The transsexual is serving four years and four months at Dovegate Prison in Staffordshire after being caught stealing from hotel rooms to fund earlier hormone treatment.
His barrister, Shaheen Rahman, last week won a judicial review into the decision at the High Court. Because Miss Rahman is funded by legal aid, it means the costs of the case will be met by the taxpayer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/...p;in_page_id=1770&expand=true |
Without taking away at all from Mr Watson's predictament or the rights of prisoners or failing to recognise the Mail’s predilection for such stories it seems that the legal focus is very much on those cases where the financial rewards or publicity potential for the legal profession is high. There is also more than a suspicion that it is considered an easier option to offend victims of injustice rather than the increasingly vocal PC brigade.
Those of us who have spent years striving for justice in the face of the implacable opposition or indifference of the system scratch our heads at yet further proof that the lunatics are indeed in charge of the justice asylum.
Yet more evidence, if evidence was needed, of an outdated and complacent system where the priority is the status quo and the retention of power and influence. A system that can include or exclude you at a whim and dress it up as the will of the law.
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