Life Update: Luxembourg, birthday, work, court

[nmg]

It's been a very busy few weeks here, with no sign that work is going to ease off before Xmas (or before the arrival of Garklet #2), but I ought to make an effort to at least record what's been going on with my life.

After the failed trip to Stornoway last month, the candidate and his supervisor came down to Southampton (they were in London for a

Comments

[pinguthegreek]

I think politics and government needs to be reinvented.

[purplecthulhu]

I must have critically failed my paying attention role as I had no idea a second garklet was en route. Congratulations to all three (four?) of you and good luck!

[nmg]

Thanks - I spilled the beans on Facebook a few months back, but don't think that I said anything here.

[purplecthulhu]

That explains it then, since I don't do farcebook.

[ext_31109]

I'm not sure how your "statement in his defence" would do anything for his defence. Mitigation, maybe, but I don't see any defence here. And the mitigation was already entirely successful. That's why they're back home

[nmg]

Well, given that a charge of aggravated trespass required the prosecution to demonstrate that the protesters had intended to intimidate those in F+M, my evidence was that not only had they not intimidated me, but also that I did not view their actions as having had the intent of intimidating me.

(those outside who broke in later are a different matter, but the UKUncut protesters were not intimidating)

[ext_31109]

No, the description I gave is 68(1)(b) as amended -- you're looking at 68(1)(a). It's not necessary to show that anyone at all was intimidated or even that there was an intention to intimidate in order to rely on 68(1)(b) or (c

[andrewducker]

That project sounds fascinating. And having now discovered that your course slides are downloadable I'll be reading them later - thanks!

[steer]

I was just going to say the same -- a really interesting EU project. I hope it pans out well.

[valkyriekaren]

Great. Because less social housing is EXACTLY what this country needs.
*fumes*

And with local authorities under massive financial pressure, they can't really afford to build/buy more social housing, and oh look, the Government took away the powers that allowed them to seize empty properties and bring them back into use. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12127328

This is a license to print money for slum landlords, and will end up costing LAs more in housing benefit and in payments to hostels and B&Bs as homeless numbers increase.
"Fatman's got something to sell / to the capital's homeless
A Crossroads Motel / for the no fixed aboders"