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    SCOTTISH FREEMASONIC STORMTROOPING COPS AND HOW CHILDREN ARE TERRORIZED
    SCOTLANDS COP MASONIC MAFIA REGULARLY SUBJECT MEN AND THEIR CHILDREN TO THIS VILE CONDUCT. WHEN MEN SEPARATE A SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE IS INSTIGATED TO ENSURE A MAN IS LEFT HOMELESS, PENNILESS AND CHILDLESS. THIS IS ONLY ONE EXAMPLE OF THE TERRORIZING OF CHILDREN CAUGHT UP IN THEIR EVIL ABUSES OF THE LAW.

    GAIL Sheridan last night told how a team of police raided her home “like stormtroopers” as she was getting her toddler daughter ready for a Christmas party. Gail said nine officers in riot gear piled into the house while she was alone with two-year-old Gabrielle.

    She revealed how:

    Gabrielle was so terrified she cowered screaming behind a couch.
    Officers took away the toddler’s new party dress and toy antlers as evidence.
    Detectives read Gail her rights as she knelt beside her crying daughter, trying to console her.
    They took apart Gabrielle’s nappy bin, inspected her tiny clothes and rummaged through precious items in her keepsake box.
    Gail said: “At one point, I fell to my knees and I was crying.

    “I was there with this wee wean who was running behind the couch because she was so terrified. “She was screaming, ‘Mummy, mummy, mummy’. I couldn’t console her. She was absolutely hysterical. “The officers were in long, black winter coats and big, black boots. “They went through my home like stormtroopers.” The eight-hour raid happened on December 16, 2007.

    Tommy Sheridan had been at his Talk 102 radio show in Edinburgh, while Gail and her sister Gillian went to Mass. Later, the women got Gabrielle and cousin Abigail ready for a Christmas party put on by British Airways. Gail had gone back to her Glasgow house with Gabrielle to pick up presents when the police arrived. They said they were investigating perjury allegations against her and Tommy and told her they had a warrant to search their Glasgow home.

    Gail said: “They brushed passed me. There were five of them in the hall and four in the living room. “Gabrielle was hysterical. She was screaming and clinging to my leg.

    “Everything about it was so intimidating – the way they were dressed, the way they spoke to us.”

    The Lothian and Borders officers said they had arrested Tommy and told Gail she was under house arrest. Police had swooped on Tommy as he was leaving his radio show and took him into a disused police station for questioning. Gail queries why Tommy was not simply asked to report to a police station, rather than being subject to a heavy-handed arrest and interrogation in a police station where he was the only civilian.

    He was charged with perjury later that day. Gail said: “I was in shock. But I thought they would just find what they were looking for and leave. “In the meantime, all I knew was that Gabrielle couldn’t be there.”

    She asked the officers if she could have someone with her – her sister or a lawyer – but they refused. Gail added: “Gabrielle was crying uncontrollably. The police saw how scared she was and they didn’t care. “I was crying. I was trying to hold Gabrielle and I pleaded on my knees with them, ‘I am begging you to let me get her out of this house’.”

    The officers conferred for several minutes before they agreed that Gillian could come for Gabrielle. Gail wept as she recalled how she left Gabrielle with the officers as she ran to the phone in the next room. She said: “I ran to phone Gillian. I don’t know what I was thinking, leaving her there with them. It will live with me forever that I left her terrified and alone. I could hear her screaming.

    “I ran back into the living room. The CID were doing nothing, just standing watching her screaming. There was a callousness to it all. “I was on my knees holding her and they were barking at me, reading me my rights. “I couldn’t even hear them. My mind was in chaos. When I think of it, it still terrifies me.

    “Then all I could hear were boots thumping across the floor, up and down the hall, in and out of rooms.” Gillian stormed through the door, grabbed Gabrielle and ran to her house, a few hundred yards away. Eventually, police allowed Gail a phone call and she rang her lawyer.

    The perjury investigation followed a complaint that Tommy had lied during a case in 2006, when he successfully sued the News of the World for £200,000. Several others, including Gail, were part of the investigation, which was to cost taxpayers £1.5million. Gail’s lawyer advised her to itemise everything the detectives took.

    By this point, Gillian had returned and, despite repeated threats that they would arrest her, she refused to go. The officers capitulated and Gillian took an itinerary of what was taken while Gail sat in a daze. Gail added: “I was like a ragdoll. The police kept coming up to me, shoving items from my home in my face, shouting at me, ‘Do you know what this is? What is this?’ It was like they were getting a power kick.

    “It was overkill. It was as if we were big-time criminals. Were they hoping to find – drugs or dead bodies? “What was it that needed all that manpower and excess?” Outside, the media started to arrive and Gail realised that the ugly scenario being played out in her home was about to become a public spectacle. During the raid, the house, the shed and the garage were searched. When Gail went to the toilet, officers stood outside the door. She saw them rooting through her drawers in her bedroom.

    Gail added: “I felt they had stripped me of all dignity. Male officers were going through my personal things, even in my underwear drawers.” Gillian saw officers taking the nappy bin apart in Gabrielle’s nursery. They inspected all her clothes and tiny shoes, pulled everything out of her cot and undid the ribbon of her keepsake box to peer inside. In the cloakroom, Gail watched an officer going through Gabrielle’s coat pockets, which were so tiny he could only fit one finger in at a time. He turned her wee wellies upside down. Within a couple of hours, Gail’s father Gus Healy arrived.

    The police told her not to let him in but he breenged into the hall. She said: “He did what any dad would do. He asked the police what the hell they were doing? “They were emptying a Santa cookie jar and he shouted at them, ‘What the hell will you find in a cookie jar?’” Gail said officers pushed Gus , then 70, against a wall and said if he didn’t leave, they would arrest him. She said: “I worship my dad. It was horrible to see him being treated like that.”

    Gillian took Gus to the garden and begged him to leave but he refused. As he tried to get back in the house, she locked the glass patio doors. Gail said: “My dad was banging against the door. My hands were pressed against it. I was crying ‘Please go, or they will arrest you’.” “He just wanted to protect his daughters, but in his eyes I could see he felt he was failing us.

    “He had to turn and go home, a broken man. I can go through court cases, gossip, investigations, anything but I will never get over that. I will never forgive the police for making me turn my lovely father away.” Police took away bag after bag of the couple’s belongings, as well as their diaries, a computer and files. They also took miniatures bottles of alcohol which Gail had collected over her long career as an air steward and which police would later falsely accuse her of stealing.

    When one of the female officers returned weeks later with a summons, Gabrielle recognised her and ran from the door. Gail said: “She was shouting, ‘It’s the lady in the long black coat, Mummy’. She remembered crying and that she didn’t get to go to the party.” Gail’s diaries, notebooks and miniatures have still not been returned.

    Lothian and Borders Police have ignored requests to return the items. There is no reason the belongings would still be needed for evidence. Gail said: “They are so arrogant that we haven’t even had an answer.”

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    SHERIDAN A FREEMASON VICTIM BEING GAGGED AFTER RELEASE
    As ex-victims of the vile masonic bastards running the legal show in Scotland we know every trick in their nasty wee book and know that Tommy Sheridan was effectively shut down and removed from political life to allow their own parties to control Scottish politics. We do not agree with all of Tommy's views or beliefs and he lost his way when feminists took over his party but he has been treated appallingly by the utter scum and dregs who operate a monstrous legal system for their own enrichment and that of the English Crown they serve and NOT for the people of Scotland.

    Tommy Sheridan's lawyer has accused prison authorities of trying to "gag" him on his release from jail.

    Aamer Anwar said the former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader told him he would be banned from speaking in public when he is released from Castle Huntly prison on Monday. Mr Anwar said: "It's unprecedented, absolutely draconian and denies my client the right to earn a living." The Scottish Prison Service said it would not comment on individual cases.

    Sheridan has served just over a year of his three-year sentence for lying under oath. The 47-year-old was jailed on 26 January last year for committing perjury during his successful defamation action against the News of the World in 2006.

    Any prisoner serving a sentence of less than four years is currently eligible for automatic early release at the half-way point in their jail term.

    Electronic tag

    Sheridan would therefore be entitled to be freed from prison after 18 months.

    If, over a period of six months, he was to slip or respond and that was to appear in the papers then he could be recalled to prison” Aamer Anwar Tommy Sheridan's lawyer

    However, under current provisions, it is possible for individuals to spend up to the last six months of their sentence on home detention curfew. This means that they can be freed from prison to live at home but must wear an electronic tag for the remainder of their sentence. Mr Anwar said Sheridan would seek a judicial review if there was an attempt to gag him as part of his release conditions.

    "Once we have had a chance to check the papers, he fully intends to challenge it in the courts," he said. "When Tommy Sheridan is released he will be hounded by certain sections of the media. "If, over a period of six months, he was to slip or respond and that was to appear in the papers then he could be recalled to prison.

    "When you are released on home detention curfew, what they are saying is you're of no threat and have met the standards required for release into society." Mr Anwar questioned how his client could get back to normal life and engage in political activities if the speaking ban is imposed. It has been reported Sheridan wants to play a part in the independence referendum debate.

    'Democratic values'

    A statement is expected to be issued after Sheridan is reunited with his family on Monday. Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said any speaking ban would be undemocratic. He said: "Although Mr Sheridan holds views that I do not agree with I do not believe his right to express these views should be curtailed.

    "In the run up to May's local elections and in the early stages of the referendum debate he should be free to take an active role in promoting the things he believes in. "To bar him participation is counter to our democratic values." During the three-month High Court trial, Sheridan claimed he was the victim of a "vendetta" by the police and a conspiracy" involving the now-defunct News of the World and former colleagues within the SSP.

    In August last year, he was denied the chance to appeal against his conviction, following a ruling by senior judges. Sheridan's trial was one of the longest of its kind in Scottish legal history. He was convicted of five of six allegations in a single charge of perjury, relating to his evidence during the civil action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

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    • SUBMISSION TO THE REVIEW OF EXPENSES AND FUNDING IN CIVIL LITIGATION IN SCOTLAND
    For the record and with regards to the "Review of Expenses and Funding in Civil Litigation in Scotland" we wish to place on record as victims of the legal mafia in Scotland the following.

    1. We do NOT intend to respond to the carefully worded questions regarding this review.

    2. We wish to bring to the attention of the Scottish government that there is a MASSIVE conspiracy that must be addressed before anything can change within Scotlands (in)justice system.

    3. As victims who over many years have faced vendetta's that have been waged against us by the judicial mafia and their lawyer minions, along with the law society and legal aid board it is extraordinary that after registering this many years ago with the previous inquiries that have taken place at the Scottish Parliament once again a further review , we believe, will waste more time and energy and leave the legal system every bit as corrupt as it was in the 90's when we all faced horrific attacks on our person, assets and children.

    4. Not only have those controlling the legal system from Lord Hamilton down and who are all behind the crown conspiracy that selects freemasons and speculative members to ensure anything but JUSTICE reigns supreme in their utter dens of iniquity we find they continue to get away with murder.

    5. We are now a powerful group that includes members right across the globe who face similar experiences as we have and also have the necessary technology to inform the world why Scotland is one of the most VILE places to live when thugs , murderers and criminals run the 'LAW' for their own enrichment.

    6. While a complete monopoly over property purchase resides in the hands of a few law society members the repossession or THEFT of property also remains as a monopoly requiring only the signature of a solitary masonic pen to remove victims from their homes .

    7. ONLY the restoration of JURIES when major decisions regarding trillions of pounds in Scots assets are being made can justice prevail and NOT by the few crown lackeys who THINK they can control Scots wealth indefinitely.

    8. We are taking steps daily to ensure the mass exploitation of Scottish citizens is being fully documented stretching back over 15 years and will continue long into the future as ever more victims join a growing body that survived the rigours of persecution emanating from crooked judges and lawyers that have used extreme psychological torture to push some of their victims into an early grave. Much of this completely ignored by the many MSP's that have been turning a blind eye to this for far to long. No doubt being offered stolen properties at knock down prices by their lobbying friends at the Law Society of Scotland.

    9. Despite the inception of the SLCC, thanks to some of our members evidence, we have been continually monitoring the state of the courts since then and we can report there is little or no change in that Scots continue to be dragged into courts and asset stripped and bankrupted leaving them homeless and penniless.

    10. We give those responsible for the continuing vile behaviour that we know every last one of the guilty parties and THEY cannot and will not get away with this indefinitely as the property market, that includes the dodgy mortgage scams that Scottish banks are also implicated in, has also been fully exposed and has been partly responsible for the growing failure of that market when Scots are learning that house purchase is a never ending racket that sees homes being sold under false pretences only to be stolen and resold in a continuing merry go round of corruption and fraud that emanates from the legal mafia in Scotland.

    11. We ask that the above statement is added to the list of contributors , that is despite us NOT following the ridiculous rules that effectively disregard the real cause of why Scottish law continues to be an utter embarrassment to those who to this day have NEVER been recompensed for the loss of trillions of pounds when homes have been criminally stolen by the mobsters within the legal mafia .

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    MYSTERY HITMAN FACES JAIL FOR LAW SOCIETY GODFATHER ATTACK
    robert graham LESLIE CUMMINGS Scotlands crooked lawyers have been getting away with MURDER for years we are some of their victims. The ONLY time the crooks running the law society investigate is when they have fallen out with the legal mafia who utterly control the courts with freemasons/speculative society living opulent lifestyles on the back of their victims assets.

    A MYSTERIOUS international hitman is facing a lengthy jail term after he was convicted of attempting to murder a senior legal official in Edinburgh nearly six years ago.

    Robert Leiper Graham, 46, was found guilty of the frenzied and vicious knife attack on Leslie Cumming, 68, who was deputy chief executive of the Law Society of Scotland. Mr Cumming said he hoped the conclusion of the two-week trial meant “this nightmare has ended”. The motive for the assault remained uncertain as Graham was remanded in custody to await sentencing next month. It was suggested he was a hired hitman who had been paid £10,000 to dish out a “good working over”.

    Mr Cumming’s work had involved inspecting law firms’ books and he suspected the attack in January 2006 had been ordered by someone who was disgruntled at an investigation. The convicted man’s true identity is also still unclear. During his trial, Graham said he had been born Paul Francis McGhee in Dublin, and had taken his current name when he moved from New Zealand to Britain in 1999. After the verdict, Mr Cumming addressed the media in the same room in the Lothian and Borders Police headquarters in Edinburgh where he had appealed to the public for information at the time of the attack.

    “Since then, the family has tried to live an ordinary life, but from time to time we have got updates on the progress in the investigation, so we knew the case had never been closed,” he said. He praised “police perseverance and professionalism and Crown Office input” in securing the verdict against Graham. “It was important to me to get that closure and I just want to thank members of the team that were involved in this complicated case for their efforts on my behalf,” he said. “The event was horrific and bloody. Having to explain to the court in such detail as we could recall was traumatic for my wife and I.

    “I hope, now the trial is complete and the result is known, that this nightmare has ended for us and we can get back to a normal life.” After the jury returned its majority verdict at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, the prosecutor, Lesley Thomson, QC, the Solicitor-General for Scotland, spoke about the uncertainty surrounding the convicted man’s true identity. She said: “The Crown is not in a position to say he is either of these people [Robert Graham or Paul McGhee] at this stage.

    “The information that the Crown has established so far is that when he left New Zealand, he left with a warrant outstanding there in 1999. “They have been unable to provide records of him in any name other than Paul Francis McGhee. We have been unable to find that name in Irish records.” The warrant related to a drugs offence in New Zealand.

    At the sentencing hearing, the prosecution will be calling for an order that Graham be deported at the end of his prison sentence, but as yet it is unclear where he would be sent. “The Crown will require to make further inquiries,” Ms Thomson said.

    The trial came almost six years after Mr Cumming was attacked in a lane near his Murrayfield home in 2006. Graham was caught after he was arrested in Hampshire for drink-driving and his DNA was found to match a sample that had been found under Mr Cumming’s fingernails and on his jacket. By the time the link had been established, Graham had fled to the other side of the world. He was traced to Australia and extradited. Detective Chief Inspector Keith Hardie said: “Robert Graham thought that by putting some considerable distance between himself and the scene of this appalling, vicious attack, he had evaded justice.

    “This is a perfect example of good partnership working, and I must give credit to the many agencies across the world who assisted in the complicated process of bringing Graham back to Scotland to stand trial. “Without terrific support from our policing colleagues in Australia, we would never have been able to make Graham face the consequences of his actions. “He is a devious character who has lived a lie for most of his adult life, and there were major concerns he would do his best to continue to evade justice.

    “The verdict sends out the message that we will not be put off by the passage of time, and will quite literally pursue people to the other side of the world to bring them to court.” Mr Hardie added: “The motive [for attacking Mr Cumming] is something that may be the subject of further police investigation and I could not comment any further on that at this time. “From the outset, his suspicion was that the motive was the work he carried out with the Law Society. We looked at a number of other possibilities, but as the inquiry progressed, we satisfied ourselves that that was the most likely motivation … somebody was really disgruntled by an investigation.”

    A spokesperson for the Law Society of Scotland, which had put up half of a £10,000 reward to anyone providing information which led to an arrest, said: “Leslie Cumming was the chief accountant and latterly the deputy chief executive. “He joined the staff in 1984 and worked tirelessly to improve the regulation of Scottish solicitors. He was a dedicated and popular member of staff and the attack was a great shock to his former colleagues. “Leslie was determined not to let the attack stop him from living life to the full and he has done that in so many ways.”

    Mr Cumming, a qualified chartered accountant, retired from the society in November 2006, and runs his own consultancy. He recalled during his evidence that on the morning of 23 January, 2006, he had been outside his house unlocking a gate, and when he went back indoors, his wife asked him why he had been running. He said he did not know what she meant and she explained she had heard running footsteps. Nothing more was thought of it and he went off to work, which that day was not in the Law Society’s offices, but in a hotel for team-building programmes. He arrived home earlier than usual, at about 5pm, and in the darkness he drove his black Jaguar up the lane at the rear of his house to his garage.

    He had put the car in the garage and was about to pull down the door when he saw a figure approaching in the gloom. The person was wearing a balaclava and all Mr Cumming could see was “a circle of pale face”. Without a word being spoken, the man struck him on the side of the face. Mr Cumming thought he had been punched but felt warm blood streaming down his neck and realised a knife had been used. He was then beaten mercilessly about the face and body before the assailant calmly turned and walked away. Mr Cumming managed to reach his home and alert his wife, who called an ambulance.

    In hospital, doctors found that, although close, none of the stab wounds had struck a vital organ. He was, however, left scarred for life by wounds to his face and body. A doctor said he had been the victim of a “sustained, frenzied, vicious attack”. In his defence, Graham claimed he had acted as a Good Samaritan and intervened when Mr Cumming was being beaten by another man. But the jury rejected his claims and found him guilty of attempted murder.

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    Corruption claims against Edinburgh council officials

    BBC Scotland has uncovered evidence of possible fraud and serious wrongdoing in building works overseen by Edinburgh City Council. There are calls for a review of recent work carried out under the statutory notice system, which allows the council to order repairs to private homes. The BBC heard claims of bribes being offered by contractors, overcharging, unnecessary and poor quality work. The council said it would not comment until a police inquiry had ended.

    The fraud unit at Lothian and Borders Police is currently investigating the council's property conservation department, which deals with statutory notices. Over the past year about 15 of its officials - nearly half the department - have been suspended in a move the council described as "precautionary". The local authority also called in Deloitte auditors to carry out an investigation, which is still ongoing. Under the statutory notice system, the council can intervene to organise repair work for private properties when the owners cannot reach agreement. Council surveyors arrange the work through approved contractors and recoup the cash from owners, and the local authority also receives 15% of the final bill. The value of statutory notices issued by council surveyors has increased dramatically in recent years, from £9.2m in 2005 to more than £30m in 2010. A BBC investigation, Scotland's Property Scandal - which is screened at 22:35 on Tuesday on BBC1 Scotland - reveals claims of cosy relationships between contractors and council officials.

    The BBC understands that police have been passed evidence claiming a council officer went on holidays paid for by a contractor. The property conservation department's hospitality records until 2009 have now been lost. The power to issue repair orders to private homeowners is unique to Edinburgh. But there has been an increasing number of complaints from residents and businesses affected by them.

    A recurring theme of these complaints has been spiralling costs when further repairs are carried out without owners being consulted, leaving them with bills totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds. John Addison and Gordon Murdie The two experts said the repairs they examined were over-priced, unnecessary and of poor quality BBC Scotland commissioned two experts - quantity surveyor Gordon Murdie and structural engineer John Addison - to examine cases where work was carried out under the statutory notice system.

    They concluded that the residents had been over-charged, and that some of the repairs were unnecessary, of poor quality and may actually have made the buildings worse. The BBC also found evidence that the council was using firms not in their list of framework contractors, such as Action Building Contracts.

    It picked up nearly £2m of work from the council over a two-year period. The firm, which later went into administration, has refused to comment.

    'League table'

    The BBC spoke to an informant who used to work in the council department and left a few years ago. He said he was encouraged to find things wrong with buildings and issue statutory notices. He said: "You were congratulated on how many notices you served, whether it was warranted or not. Councillor Ewan Aitken Former city council leader Ewan Aitken has passed the information he has received to the police

    "Inexperienced surveyors were going out and finding work. When they got builders on board they were being led by builders rather than the other way round. That's why the bills were rising." Councillor Ewan Aitken, former leader of Edinburgh City Council, told the BBC he is contacted at least once a day by concerned constituents over statutory notices. For the past two years he has been raising concerns on behalf of constituents. He also became worried that some contractors carrying out statutory notice work have been lining their own pockets.

    And he is particularly concerned that a few council officers may have abused their powers. He said: "I am of the view that some things have gone on that have broken the law.

    "I have seen what appear to be strange decisions, unexplained decisions about who gets work, and that worries me deeply. And I've been asking questions, public questions, about that, and not got answers." Some residents are now contacting lawyers to determine whether the work they paid for was necessary and fairly priced. And Mr Aitken believes hundreds of cases may be invalid, resulting in a potential bill for the council of tens of millions of pounds. He said: "I think we need to review every case, at least back to 2005, to find out how was the notice was put in place."

    A council report says about 3,000 notices are issued each year, but all non-emergency cases have now been put on hold while the police and Deloitte investigations are carried out. The statutory notice system aims to protect the rich architectural heritage of Scotland's capital, which includes a World Heritage site. It is also intended to protect the public from defective old buildings, the importance of which was tragically borne out in June 2000, when falling masonry killed Australian waitress Christine Foster at the city's Ryan's Bar.

    Mark Turley, director of the council's Services for Communities, said: "The fact that we commissioned Deloitte to carry out a very thorough investigation is a sign of how seriously we take the complaints and concerns that have been raised and our commitment to addressing them. "We fully recognise that the public should know the results of these investigations and they will be reported to a meeting of the council once we are in a position to do this."

    Scotland's Property Scandal will be broadcast at 22:35 on Tuesday 20 September on BBC1 Scotland, and on the iPlayer

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    A 'SECRET TRIAL' RECENTLY HELD IN SCOTLAND IS A DISTURBING DEVELOPMENT
    judgewalk AS A GROUP WITH MANY VICTIMS OF SCOTLAND'S SPECULATIVE JUDICIAL MAFIA 'SECRET COURTS' ARE THE NORM RATHER THAN AN ODDITY. SCOTLAND HAS BEEN UNDER ENGLISH CROWN JUDICIAL TYRANNY THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY AND WHY SCOTS STRUGGLE TO HANG ONTO THEIR LAND, PROPERTY AND ASSETS. THE EASE WITH WHICH STAR CHAMBER 'SECRET COURTS' TRANSFERS SCOTS WEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF THE SCUM USING OUR LAWS TO RIDE ROUGHSHOD OVER OUR RIGHTS IS ENORMOUS. THIS CASE ONLY HIGHLIGHTS THE DEGREE TO WHICH CORRUPT JUDGES HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES POWERS THEY NEVER HAD IN THE FIRST PLACE.

    The banning of all media reporting in a minor case at a Scottish sheriff court could be setting a very dangerous precedent The extraordinary powers of Scottish courts to hold trials in secret have been demonstrated by a case where all media reporting was banned. The minor case involving a teenager at Inverness sheriff court would have passed unnoticed where it not for the fact that the procurator fiscal, who brings prosecutions in Scotland, asked for the case to be heard in closed session.

    This is not unusual in Scots cases involving children – the accused is 17 – or vulnerable witnesses. However, it is normal practice to allow the media to stay and report the case, albeit with restrictions on identifying the accused or witnesses. However, in this case the sheriff, Margaret Neilson, acceded to the fiscal's request in terms that banned all reporting of the case and the reporter from the local paper, the Inverness Courier, was asked to leave the court. The trial, which was at summary level for less serious offences, took place, the defendant was found guilty and later sentenced at another closed hearing.

    Even in closed hearings the media are often allowed to know details such as the charge, plea and outcome of the case – but in this instance no such details have been provided. Rosalind McInnes,(SHE BEING THE BBC SCOTLAND MEDIA LAWYER BEHIND THE PROTECTION OF THE SYSTEM) author of Scots Law for Journalists, said: "It is extraordinary. What you have here is, in effect, a secret trial. Why the media should be kicked out, I have no idea."

    What is even more disturbing about this case is difficulty the paper concerned has faced in challenging the order. The Inverness Courier was told that to do so it would have to got through a legal process of presenting a petition of nobile officium in the high court of justiciary or court of session, in Edinburgh. This would cost the paper several thousand pounds in legal fees.

    Inverness Courier editor, Robert Taylor, said: "I don't think this is a case of malicious intent, but rather a misguided attempt to spare someone publicity. But it sets a very dangerous precedent – this was a trial and the defendant was pleading not guilty." Taylor has written to the sheriff principal for the area, Sir Stephen Young, asking for an explanation for the actions of the court in this case.

    A spokeswoman for the crown office, speaking for the procurator fiscal would only say: "The area procurator fiscal, having considered all the facts and circumstances of this case, made a motion to the court to hold this case in private. The sheriff upheld the motion and accordingly the court was closed while proceedings were conducted."

    A spokeswoman for the sheriff courts said: "A motion was made, the sheriff considered that motion and made an order." The Scottish courts service said that no statistics were held on how frequently courts sat in closed session like this. English courts have similar common law powers to exclude the media in the interests of the administration of justice or on grounds of national security, but there is case law to support a reporter's right to challenge such an order in the court if it is being made without going to the expense of a hearing at a higher court. Even then it is unheard of for the result of such a case to be subject to a permanent reporting ban.

    As well as the powers at common law to hold trials behind closed doors used in this case, Scots courts now have another statutory means of excluding the media. Section 93 of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 gives the court the power to exclude any person the court deems not to have sufficient interest in the case; ban all reporting of the case; and ban reporting that the order itself has been made. The section was meant to cover hearings involving police informants where publication of personal details might put them or their families at risk. But an order banning all reporting seems draconian when all that would be needed in most cases is anonymity.

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    anpr For any man who already knows the lengths freemasons, embedded within the cops and legal mafia , will go to dig up information on you to fleece you of your estate this is only one of the ways of tracking your movements along with spying on your spending through their masonic banking mafia buddies.

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    SPY CAMERA technology used to snare criminals is tracking unwitting motorists on Scotland's major trunk roads. The Automatic Number Plate Recognition system (ANPR) is being rolled out by the government's Transport Scotland agency. The system is used by police forces across the UK to bust drug-running vehicles, uninsured drivers and other criminals.

    It is now being used routinely on Scotland's busiest road, the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Anpr cameras are also tracking number plates on vehicles on the M77 route from south Glasgow to Kilmarnock and the A726 Glasgow southern orbital. Transport minister Keith Brown announced earlier this month that M8 gantry signs between Edinburgh and Glasgow would be giving live journey time updates.

    Yesterday, despite repeated requests, Transport Scotland claimed they couldn't say how much the system costs. Anpr offers police instant details on vehicles and motorists including who the car is registered to and insurance and MOT details. Transport Scotland say the technology is purely to alert motorists to journey times on the busy routes.

    But of the three major routes using the system, only the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh currently gives motorists real time information. Last night, Mairi Clare Rodgers of civil rights group Liberty said: "We have no problem with ANPR being used to locate vehicles whose owners the police firmly suspect of having committed an offence. "But it should not be used as a tool of mass surveillance.

    We need an informed debate about the extent and potential of this technology." Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said: "Most drivers would welcome better information on expected journey times. "But there may be ways of delivering that other than this system. If drivers are being tracked unwittingly, there are civil liberties issues, plus the cost of it all."

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