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Students Denied Legal Aid

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly? Well then you’d be in disagreement with Judge Parsons (of Brighton magistrates). He’s just refused legal aid to seven students up in front of his bench for ‘aggravated tresspass’ (punishable by up to three months inside) on the grounds that “they are intelligent enough to represent themselves”.

The seven are accused of D-locking and supergluing to EDO MBM’s infamous factory of death in Brighton on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. Despite the fact that the student protesters are all in their first year and none are studying law, the judge is perhaps paying the defendants a compliment in considering them equal in legal know-how to a barrister (who study for around six years before they are considered ready to defend their clients). They are under stringent bail conditions to stay away from EDO MBMs factories.

Of course legal aid is gradually being whittled away for all of us (See SchNEWS 618). But the decision to cut off the supply this time is interesting in the light of how many cases against EDO protestors have ended in failure for the authorities (See SchNEWS 535). Campaign spokesman Andy Beckett told SchNEWS “By robbing these defendants of their rights to adequate legal representation, the authorities are launching an attack on our campaign as a whole. They’ve been forced to drop cases when it looked as if evidence of police collusion with the factory owners was about to emerge. But that evidence only emerged after careful examination by trained solicitors. The whole thing smacks of a desperate attempt to secure convictions against supporters of our successful campaign”.

The National Union of Students is up in arms at this abuse of the student’s status to trick them out of their right to legal representation. In the words of the USSU education officer; “That students are being denied legal assistance simply because they are students is disgraceful. A fair and public trial is a human right. When students take on international arms dealers without legal representation it is laughable to claim that the proceedings could be fair or equal. At a time when civil liberties are under attack nationally, this court is specifically targeting students as an isolated and disempowered group.”

To support the defendants, fight for civil liberties and take action against the arms trade join Smash EDO at the Carnival Against The Arms Trade…

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5 Responses to “Students Denied Legal Aid”

3 year old kid
Posted: May 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am

Most Students are Filth, they eat rich food at the taxpayers expense, drink liqueur at tax payers expense and generally do bad things all of the time such as rip the taxpayers off with ridiculous experiences such as £300 for a mirror or £11,000 for a kitchen.

were as the politicians never do any of this, they slave away working for the poor of Britain and the rest of the world and are worth wile members of society. Hurrah!

I say publically garotte and then behead these filthy students before they have time to do any more damage to the country.

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Timotei
Posted: May 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am

MAAN, FUCK U! What is ur problem 3 year old kid, i hope all that was in jest or you need ur head checking. Im a student and im not fucking rich. I eat beans on toast on most days. Beta buy bread wen times r hard. Or that happy shopper shit. But anyway, its not as students don’t put back into society. Are you saying you wouldn’t want to help provide a potential doctor, a life saver, someone much clever than u, with an education. Yea, instead lets behead that guy! Just because you have to pay an absoloutley tiny amout of your yearly earnings to fund the hard workers of the future, compared to the tax you pay to fund illegal wars in the middle east. Riiight, I really hope ur just chattin it 3 yr old!? If u r then fairplay, its always good 2 pretend to b a facist on the internet. YEA LETS BEAT THOSE HIPPY STUDENT LOW LIFES! HUZZAH! stupid motherfucker,Jah will put u right, mwahaha, RASTAFAAARI. peace n unity to all my breders n sistas in leeds n york.

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Jon
Posted: Jun 5th, 2008 at 2:49 am

Timotei.. come on after the first line you should have sensed a bit of sarcasm.. you give students like me and the rest of us that can, A)take a joke and B)contribute to blogs in a respectful manner, a very bad name sir.. I understand you would be upset if he was serious.. but if he was do you really think he would have the intelligence level to actually be at a website such as this?

on another note.. any word on whether these students objected? My immediate response would have been.. “yes i know i more intelligent than you if you really believe you can get away with this.. BUT FUCK YOU!” (please excuse the explictive.. but i think it would be appropriate)

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smersh
Posted: Jun 28th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

Re Jon:
Yes, the students in question objected, vociferously and eventually succesfully. All of them now have legal aid and will be appearing in court (this time with baristers) in a month or two.

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Albert Trinnit
Posted: Jun 28th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Parsons is just another example of the filth that that gushes from every pore of the fascist state

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