In message 0, mike
ring writes
"Martin" wrote in
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Unless Hutton gets in the way I suspect - Heads are rolling as I
type.....


Nah, looks more like another Whitewash job

I didn't realise Lord H was Scotch till I heard his speech; so I guess it's
the Scotch Mafia closing ranks again


If anyone's interested ...

"The 72 year old Baron Hutton of Bresagh, County of Down, North Ireland,
is a classic representative of the British ruling establishment. A
member of the Anglo-Irish elite, he was educated at Shewsbury all boys
boarding school, and then Balliol, Oxford, before entering the exclusive
club of the British Judiciary. Whilst British Judges are overwhelmingly
conservative, upper class, white, male and biased, Hutton's background
is even more compromised.

His name will be familiar to residents of the Six counties of Ulster.
During the bloody thrity years war Hutton was an instrument of British
state repression, starting in the late 1960's as junior counsel to the
Northern Ireland attorney general, and by 1988 rising to the top job of
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

Hutton spent his career as Judge and Jury in the notorious northern
Ireland kangaroo 'Diplock Courts'. These were special non-Jury courts,
condemned by human rights advocates for their miscarriages of justice.
He was hated for this role by the families of the many innocent
catholics wrongly convicted here.

Hutton distinguished himself after the Bloody Sunday massacre of civil
rights protesters in 1972. He played a key role in the ensuing judicial
cover-up called the Widgery Inquiry which absolved British troops of
Murder. This miscarriage of justice is only now being investigated by
the current Saville inquiry.

Then in 1978 he represnted the British Government before the European
Court of Human Rights, defending it against a ruling that it abused and
maltreated detainees from the conflict.

However, he will be remembered in the rest of the UK for his role in the
1999 Pinochet affair. Another senior Judge, Lord Hoffman had contributed
to the decision to arrest and extradite the notorious former dicator of
Chile and mass murderer General Pinochet during his visit to Britain.

As a law lord, Hutton led the rightwing attack on Lord Hoffman, on the
excuse that Hoffman's links to the human rights group amnesty
international invalidated Pinochets arrest! Lord Hutton said "public
confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be
shaken" if Lord Hoffman's ruling was not overturned.

More recently, Hutton was also involved in the ruling that David
Shayler, the former MI5 agent, could not argue he was acting in the
public interest by revealing secrets.

This history of intimate links with, and knowledge of Britains secret
military intelligence operations meant he could be a trusted pair of
hands when it came to the Kelly affair. "

--
geoff