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Η κυβέρνηση προσπαθεί να κάνει κακή χρήση του Bill των δικαιωμάτων
Δευτέρα, 10η Μαρτίου 2008
Η κυβέρνηση και ο ομιλητής της Βουλής των Κοινοτήτων συνεργούν για να προσπαθήσουν να κάνουν κακή χρήση του 17$ου αιώνα Bill των δικαιωμάτων να κατασταλθεί η κοινοποίηση FOIA των αναθεωρήσεων πυλών OGC του προγράμματος καρτών ταυτότητας
Bill των δικαιωμάτων 1689 ένα ιστορικό κομμάτι του αγγλικού συντάγματος, το οποίο προορίστηκε συντηρήστε τα δικαιώματα και τις ελευθερίες του κοινού και των μελών του Κοινοβουλίου από τις καταχρήσεις από τον εκτελεστικό κλάδο της κυβέρνησης, το οποίο, στο 17$ο αιώνα ήταν:
Εάν αντικαθιστάτε «τον πρώην βασιλιά James ο δεύτερος» με. » Tony Blair» ή «Gordon Brown», κατάλληλος ο εξ ίσου καλός λέξεων. Είμαστε έκπληκτος και εξαγριωμένος, ότι αυτός ο Bill των δικαιωμάτων, δεν χρησιμοποιείται σωστά στο ανώτατο δικαστήριο που δοκιμάζει στη νυφίτσα από να πρέπει να αποκαλυφθούν οι αναθεωρήσεις πρόωρων (και τώρα πολύ ξεπερασμένων) πυλών του προγράμματος καρτών ταυτότητας του Υπουργείου Εσωτερικών (όπως ήταν έπειτα, του circa το 2002/2003), από τους δικηγόρους για της κυβέρνησης Γραφείο για το κυβερνητικό εμπόριο, υποστηριγμένος από, απίστευτα, τους δικηγόρους για Ομιλητής της Βουλής των Κοινοτήτων, στην έκκλησή τους ενάντια στην απόφαση του ανεξάρτητου δικαστηρίου πληροφοριών, που διέταξε την πλήρη κοινοποίηση, στο δημόσιο ενδιαφέρον. Είναι η κυβέρνηση και οι δικηγόροι τους απελπισμένοι, ή κακό; Γιατί ο ομιλητής της Βουλής των Κοινοτήτων βοηθά τον εκτελεστικό κλάδο της κυβέρνησης, για να καταστείλει την ελευθερία της ομιλίας και της διαφανούς ανοικτής κυβέρνησης, σε ένα θέμα τεράστιου δημόσιου ενδιαφέροντος; Daily Mail/ταχυδρομείο την Κυριακή: χρονών νόμος 319 που χρησιμοποιείται από τον ομιλητή Michael Martin για να φιμώσει την έκθεση ταυτότητας Υπολογιστής εβδομαδιαίος: Η κυβέρνηση επιδιώκει να θάψει τις αναθεωρήσεις καρτών ταυτότητας [άκρη καπέλων Βρετανική ελευθερία για την επισήμανση αυτού ενώπιον μας] Bill των δικαιωμάτων 1688 («Νόμος που δηλώνεται για να είναι ένα καταστατικό από το νόμο 1689 αναγνώρισης κορωνών και του Κοινοβουλίου (γ. 1)”)
See the history of this long running Freedom of Information Act disclosure suppression in our OGC Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Programme blog category archive. The lawyers for the Government, seem to be desperately clutching at straws, by claiming that the Information Tribunal, in its very thorough 4 day hearing, involving submissions from top barristers Queens Councils and specialist professors of Freedom of Information Act law, somehow made improper use of a publicly published report from a Select Committee of the House of Commons, the one which scrutinises the Department for Work and Pensions. See the House of Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions report: Third Report - 7 July 2004 - Department for Work and Pensions Management of Information Technology Projects: Making IT Deliver for DWP Customers specifically paras. 110 - 123 Publishing OGC Gateway Reviews If they are allowed to get away with this line of reasoning, then there is no point in any of the supposedly powerful Select Committees whatsoever, if their official public reports following their inquiries and investigations, cannot be used to scrutinise the policies and decisions of Central Government Departments or Agencies. Incredibly, they are being supported by a lawyer acting on behalf of the Speaker of the House of Commons, to help the Executive branch of the Government (i.e. no longer the Monarch, but a Central Government Department, which was not the case in the 17th Century) to suppress the rights of the public in general, and of the two people who submitted the original Freedom of Information Act requests, which have been considered together by the Information Tribunal. One of those people is actually a Member of Parliament ! This bit of law is what is supposed to protect Members of Parliament from libel cases for what they say, with Parliamentary Privilege, in speeches or debates, in the Chamber of the House of Commons. This fundamental constitutional law pre-dates the official record of the proceedings of Parliament i.e. Hansard, which started out as a private sector journalistic publishing venture, and the general acceptance of press and media reporting of the procedures of Parliament. Neither of these existed back in the 17th Century. Provided that these reports use fair and accurate quotations, then these media reports are themselves protected by Parliamentary Privilege from being accused of promulgating what might be a libel, if it had not been uttered by an MP within the House of Commons. This protection against libel or other civil cases also extends to the official written Reports of Select Committees of the House of Commons, and the Lords or Joint Committees of both Houses of Parliament. There are perverse consequences of this Parliamentary Privilege e.g. See Defamation Act 1996 section 13 Evidence concerning proceedings in Parliament The provisos in this section of the Act explicitly cover Select Committee evidence and reports. Information Tribunal was not criticising, let alone libeling or even “Questioning” the Select Committee report. The Information Tribunal simply cited this publicly published Report as evidence, noting the arguments, both for and against publication of such Gateway Reviews.
The “Questioning” by the Information Tribunal Judgement was of the Office for Government Commerce, part of HM Treasury, headed, at the time (May 2007) by the “control freak” Chancellor / Prime Minister Gordon Brown. That is definitely not anything to do with the “Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament” which is what the Bill of Rights clause is on about ! How can the High Court, Judge Mr. Justice Stanley Brunton possibly decide that reading or mentioning a Select Committee Report contravenes the Bill of Rights, without also destroying Hansard, official Government Press Releases, the wider Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press ? How can he ignore the Parliamentary Papers Act 1840 ? The Speaker of the House of Commons should not be colluding with the Government and the civil service bureaucracy, he should be Ordering them, under threat of Contempt of Parliament, to obey the several cross-party Select Committees such as the Public Accounts Committee, the Home Affairs Committee, and the Work and Pensions Committee etc. have not even been allowed to see copies of Gateway Review reports, even in closed evidence sessions. That is the scandal which the Speaker of the House of Commons should be employing lawyers to remedy. He should not be helping to suppress proper public and Parliamentary scrutiny of massive Government IT projects, involving millions of pounds of public money, which will affect every person in the UK, individually. The publication of the High Court’s Judgment could take several weeks or months. We await the result, with mounting despair and resentment of the English legal system, which is stacked by the Government so heavily against normal individual citizens, and which fails to uphold their fundamental human rights, in a speedy and just manner. Have Your Say: Government tries to abuse the Bill of Rights Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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