Boris Johnson must go on trial for 'lying and misleading' in Brexit campaign, judge orders

[Poi E]

needs more crowd funding, the problem is that the blond twat has so much money he could end up having any case withdrawn as the prosecutors run out of funds.

Or after he becomes PM.

 

[agricola]

Why, that does not logically follow at all?
In fact you what you are doing is making politics into an expert field rather than battleground of opinions.

Not sure how it doesn't logically follow, to be honest. The offence is made out when a public office holder, acting as such, wilfully misconducts himself or neglects to perform his duty - there is no exception for MPs (or Mayors), nor is there an exemption for lies told in a political campaign.

So this will come down to whether an MP, minister or an elected Mayor is an public office holder (which they are), whether them knowingly lying during a campaign is wilful misconduct (which is less certain, though it is still probable that it would be), and if so whether Boris knowingly lied during a campaign (which is what they will have to prove beyond reasonable doubt).

 

[kenny g]

I would be suprised if the DPP took it over and then stopped it. Would send the message MPs are beyond the law which would only increase public contempt. Also would be suprised to see the JR work. This could run and run.

 

[Athos]

Not sure how it doesn't logically follow, to be honest. The offence is made out when a public office holder, acting as such, wilfully misconducts himself or neglects to perform his duty - there is no exception for MPs (or Mayors), nor is there an exemption for lies told in a political campaign.

So this will come down to whether an MP, minister or an elected Mayor is an public office holder (which they are), whether them knowingly lying during a campaign is wilful misconduct (which is less certain, though it is still probable that it would be), and if so whether Boris knowingly lied during a campaign (which is what they will have to prove beyond reasonable doubt).

Might struggle with the bold bit.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Case thrown out.

 

[Pickman's model]

ah there's a sadness

 

[Pickman's model]

Case thrown out.

i hope you're not cracking open the glenfiddich or similar in celebration

 

[cupid_stunt]

Case thrown out.

Hardly surprising, but at least we had some entertainment out of it.

The High Court has thrown out an attempt to prosecute Boris Johnson over claims he lied during the 2016 referendum campaign by saying the UK gave the EU £350m a week.

The Tory leadership candidate challenged a summons for him to attend court on three claims of misconduct in public office.

Addressing Mr Johnson's barrister, Adrian Darbishire QC, Lady Justice Rafferty said: "We are persuaded, Mr Darbishire, so you succeed, and the relief that we grant is the quashing of the summonses."

Reasons for the High Court's ruling will be given at a later date.

Johnson misconduct case thrown out

 

[andysays]

Hardly surprising, but at least we had some entertainment out of it.



Johnson misconduct case thrown out

"Reasons to be given at a later date"

 

[Pickman's model]

"Reasons to be given at a later date"

"when we've cobbled something together"

 

[planetgeli]

Didn’t this cost 200k to get this far? That’s a crime in itself.

 

[cupid_stunt]

"Reasons to be given at a later date"

That's common in urgent cases.

In cases of urgency, the Court may render judgment, reserving reasons to be given at a later date. After the judgment has been handed down, the formal record of the judgment must be drawn up and perfected by sealing. The record of the judgment may be drawn up by the Court or by the parties.
https://www.biicl.org/files/3479_comp_table_-_effect_of_judgments_questionnaire_without_scotland.pdf

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

"Reasons to be given at a later date"

Judge Supperstone went to same school as Gideon Osborne.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That's common in urgent cases.

"We urgently need to throw this case out, we'll think of a credible reason in the next couple of months."

 

[Sasaferrato]

i hope you're not cracking open the glenfiddich or similar in celebration

I don't drink Speyside.

The case didn't ever have a hope in hell. If you tried to put every lying politician in the dock, the queue would be from London to Vladivostok.

 

[ruffneck23]

Judge Supperstone went to same school as Gideon Osborne.

 

[Cid]

It didn’t stand a snowball’s and has just given the fucker another anecdote to waffle on about.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't drink Speyside.

The case didn't ever have a hope in hell. If you tried to put every lying politician in the dock, the queue would be from London to Vladivostok.

even as we speak the dockside at grytviken is being extended to accommodate the mendacious former people

 

[andysays]

That's common in urgent cases.

'Sentence first, verdict later'...

 

[brogdale]

One thing that Ball achieved; this tacit admission that Johnson lied.

 

[weltweit]

Shame, but there is other evidence that Boris is a liar, he was iirc sacked from at least one newspaper job for making up quotes, and there was that business with his buddy wanting someone beaten up, not nice.

 

[SpackleFrog]

That went nowhere then. As predicted.

 

[ViolentPanda]

"Reasons to be given at a later date"

Happened with my own JR against Lambeth Council.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Plenty of the bodies are getting dug up now at least.

At a briefing meeting held in Boris' Office in 2011 during the Inquests into the deaths of the victims of the 7/7 bombings I was telling Boris how the Fire Authority was having to spend a sizable sum on lawyers (as were the Met , TfL and everybody else involved ) not least because Mrs Justice Hallett was cutting up rough as Coroner when he suddenly said " I blame Tony Blair for all this , he started it with the Marchioness (Inquest) " Guto Harri, who was Boris' Head of Communications and at the time absolutely devoted to Boris , said " Oh Boris they are really for the families (of the victims) benefit " To which Boris replied "Fuck the families , Fuck the families !" . I was having none of this and snapped at Boris " You didn't have to write eight letters of condolence to families of your constituents or attend the funeral of 31 year old Lee Baisden ( a Fire Authority employee) who had been blown to pieces at Aldgate and comfort his poor widowed Mother " .

After this meeting the ever loyal Guto Harri rang me up and said "it never happened Brian , it never happened" . Sorry Guto it did and I have witnesses .

Well since I left City Hall ( you were thrown out by the voters ED) , things have certainly changed sadly I don't think Boris has . As one female Boris aide said to me "Boris' trouble is he cannot keep it in his trousers" . Oh if that was his only problem .

 

[William of Walworth]

Plenty of the bodies are getting dug up now at least.

"Boris doesn't do detail"

 

[CH1]

I understand that the Daily Mail is banned as a source by Wikipedia, but nevertheless this article makes interesting reading.
Police are called to flat Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds | Daily Mail Online

Pity that if Boris now flops we are left with the anodyne Hunt.
The only sensible candidate for Tory leader (assuming it's sensible to be a Tory at all) as Sam Gyimah. And he couldn't even get three proposers.

 

[editor]

Good point....

 

[cupid_stunt]

Good point....

See this post...

That bit is probably down to the computer system that the Met uses to despatch incidents (CAD), which will be 40 years old in 2024 (if it isn't replaced by then) and which uses codes to describe what sort of incident it is before any free text entries are made to elaborate further. There are two codes for domestics (non crime and crime) and a third for "concern for safety" - so if the incident went on as a concern for safety (which is what the statement says it went on as ), it would not turn up on a code search for domestics (which is the easiest way to find an incident on the system if you don't have the reference number but do have what time it happened and the area that the incident happened in).

 

[editor]

The gift that keeps on giving as more Tories out themselves as utter cunts.

A minister and key Boris Johnson ally dismissed the police being called to investigate a screaming row at his home as a “non-story” and attacked the “lefty neighbours” who alerted them.

Ben Wallace, the security minister, later deleted the tweet after criticism – while a leading grassroots Conservative said the controversy would quickly “puff up and blow away”.

Unbelievable:

Tim Sinclair, a Conservative local elections candidate in Stratford-on-Avon, said the story would blow over, adding: “Despite his background, he's actually regarded as a man of the people purely because he acts normally – he speaks his mind, he does things and behaves in ways that normal people can look at.

“While this isn't what you might call normal, having police come to your door, actually it shows him to be a real human being; having a row that gets a bit out of hand.”

Tory minister attacks 'lefty neighbours' for telling police of loud altercation involving Boris, then deletes tweet

 

[editor]

Update: Neighbour who called police over Boris Johnson row goes public

The way people some Tory shits are trying to foist blame or ulterior motives on to the neighbour is quite disgusting.