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A Price Worth Paying
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:23:21 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk> Dave: This is from the top front page article in today's copy of the (UK) Guardian newspaper:
Woolf warns government over human rights Clare Dyer, legal correspondent Wednesday October 16, 2002 The Guardian Judges will step in to safeguard unpopular minorities or individuals if parliament or the government, urged on by the tabloids, tramples on their rights, the lord chief justice pledged last night. Lord Woolf, England's senior judge, said the unpopularity the judges could incur would be "a price worth paying" to ensure Britain remains a democracy committed to the rule of law.
... Full text at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,812718,00.html I was delighted to see this article, since I'd been involved in a discussion last week in Brussels with a senior EU official who was denying the truth of what I told him of the claims made in a US article I saw recently on your IP list (quoting the Washington Post?). This was the article saying that the US judiciary were exercising a degree of restraint against what they viewed as official over-reactions in the name of counter-terrorism, and commenting that such restraints were not as yet effective in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. cheers Brian PS I've looked unsuccessfully through the IP archive for this earlier article, since I wanted to send a copy to Brussels. Could you identify it for me please. -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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