moral victories are the best kind of victories imo
Campaigner and film maker Tony Rooke claimed a moral victory today
*splutter* *snigger*Moral Victory for Protestor who says BBC 9/11 Coverage was False
Back in Horsham Magistrates Court campaigners have been planning future tactics. Tony Rook's victory, helped by lawyer Mahtab Aziz, implies that the BBC has a case to answer, but expert witnesses including Danish associate professor Niels Harrit were not called due to legal technicalities. However the District Judge would have read their statements before the hearing and taken them into account.
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Tony Rook's victory, helped by lawyer Mahtab Aziz, implies that the BBC has a case to answer,
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District Judge Stephen Nicholls said: 'This is not a public inquiry into 9/11. This is an offence under section 363 of the Communications Act.'
Back in Horsham Magistrates Court campaigners have been planning future tactics. Tony Rook's victory, helped by lawyer Mahtab Aziz, implies that the BBC has a case to answer, but expert witnesses including Danish associate professor Niels Harrit were not called due to legal technicalities. However the District Judge would have read their statements before the hearing and taken them into account.
Conditional discharges are often used in political cases to indicate that the accused, though technically guilty, occupies the moral high ground.
Can a juror come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it, either from the prosecution or defence?I do however like the idea that not being able to call a witness because he/she has notning to do with the case is a 'legal technicality'. I'd have got off that £60 speeding fine if I only I was allowed to call the pope as a witness!
afaict, the Mail is the only mainstream press to've taken this up so far
I bet they're all demolition experts too, and very well versed in the practical uses of thermite.theres the obligatoryV mask after all
The fact the court decided to give him a conditional discharge just means that the District Judge let him off lightly for reasons best known to himself.
I rather like the way that Jazzz's chums have unilaterally decided that it's a" political case" despite the fact that the judge couldn't have made it clearer that he was having no truck with all the "BBC = terrorists" guff.This is some seriously delusional shit. None of the above bears any relation to what has actually happened in real life.
No they're not!
Magistrates: "Let's give him one of those 'moral high-ground' sentences"!
I suspect most likely because that's what they give to everyone they see who hasn't paid their TV licence.
It's not gone to penalties, though, has it? Eh? Costs isn't even a fine really. Not when you think about it. And a conditional discharge is like, well, it's as good as getting off.I think we need to see this more as a moral score draw with away goals counting double.