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Booker is reporting the attempts by Lord Justice Munby, who should be in a position to know, to correct the selection of miscarriages of justice in the 11 years

Booker is reporting the attempts by Lord Justice Munby, who should be in a position to know, to correct the selection of miscarriages of justice in the 11 years the Court has existed. It's bordering on systemically broken. The whole way the court was set up was a mess. The 2005 Mental Health Act was shoddy legislation, and created the Court, which was also set up shoddily. Labour almost immediately lost an outrageous ECR case and had to amend the the Act in 07 or 08. I think there might be another going through the ECR. There have been endless complaints about it's operation, with reports going back years, in all political flavours of the media. So I for one welcome what the Telegraph, Christopher Booker and the judge are doing. The Telegraph is not my usual choice of view or politics. All the cases except the most recent have been extensively reported. Were it on climate change or one of the other Torygraph axes being ground, I'd agree with your critique, I don't think it really fits here.

triplesec 10y ago
Thanks for these extra data. I hadn't been aware of these details at all. More please, anyone! It seems there is much merit here but we must have caution, because of the unusual arrangement of Booker's metaphorical marbles / spoons. I I have read in Private Eye about some of these stories, but hopefully here we might learn of others, and other journalists interested. Journalists from what used to be Exaro News may have investigated some of these too. In any case source caution is also worthwhile. I welcome that more investigators and actors are interested in this.
- anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Oh I don't disagree there, given some of Booker's climate change pieces, starting with extreme suspicion is rarely harmful.
DanBC 10y ago
> The 2005 Mental Health Act was shoddy legislation, and created the Court The Mental Capacity Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/contents http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/contents There are some problems with the mental health act, but they are different bits of law.

triplesec 10y ago

Thanks for these extra data. I hadn't been aware of these details at all. More please, anyone! It seems there is much merit here but we must have caution, because of the unusual arrangement of Booker's metaphorical marbles / spoons. I I have read in Private Eye about some of these stories, but hopefully here we might learn of others, and other journalists interested. Journalists from what used to be Exaro News may have investigated some of these too. In any case source caution is also worthwhile. I welcome that more investigators and actors are interested in this.

anexprogrammer 10y ago
Oh I don't disagree there, given some of Booker's climate change pieces, starting with extreme suspicion is rarely harmful.

DanBC 10y ago

> The 2005 Mental Health Act was shoddy legislation, and created the Court The Mental Capacity Act. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/contents http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/contents There are some problems with the mental health act, but they are different bits of law.