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Limits on justice



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Published Date: 28 April 2008
The Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini, is trying to limit the grounds Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's defence team can argue at the coming Lockerbie appeal.
At a preliminary hearing the Crown will be seeking to persuade five judges that the grounds of appeal should be limited to those accepted by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC).

If these allegations are true, they have serious im
plications for everyone fighting for justice in Scotland.

That the terms of an appeal should be limited to those identified by the SCCRC would create an extremely dangerous precedent, in itself creating the possibility of a miscarriage of justice.

The SCCRC is an extremely important organisation – in many ways the last hope for justice in our fallible system. However, it has been shown over the years that its decisions can be fallible and almost impossible to appeal.

Fallibility does not, I believe, lay in any internal or external conspiracy or personal flaws in SCCRC members or management, but in the culture, structure, decision-making processes and financing of the organisation.

When the SCCRC identifies a potential miscarriage of justice it is not coming to some immutable decision, but stating that a miscarriage is a possibility.

What the SCCRC has done in the past, having highlighted such a possibility, is to leave it to the established appeal procedures to resolve the issue.

Once a potential miscarriage has been identified it makes no sense to impose strictly defined limits on the case examination. The defence should have the freedom to bring forward related issues the SCCRC might have failed to identify.

A short time ago the Lord Advocate was content to put responsibility for taking out a public interest immunity certificate to prevent Lockerbie documents being released on the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Now she seeks to limit the grounds of appeal.

Consistent? I don't think so.

IAIN McKIE

Donnini Court

Ayr



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  • Last Updated: 27 April 2008 8:18 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd,

Zurich/Switzerland 28/04/2008 06:12:55

FOR A FAIR END IN THE LOCKERBIE-AFFAIR

MEBO Proposal for a partial disclosure of the document "under national security"

In order that the content of the document "under national security" and the country involved are not publicly disclosed there is the possibility that

1 member of the SCCRC and 2 personalities either/or of the EU or the UNO

would have access to view this important document under the condition of not making the country involved and the content of the document public.
But the content of the document "under national security" could be used for the benefit of Abdelbaset al Megrahi's appeal proceedings.

In the sense of the Arab League. Edwin Bollier

Pls. visit our webpage: www.lockerbie.ch
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Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd,

Zurich 28/04/2008 06:40:14

LOCKERBIE- the biggest fraud in the Scottish history!

Notabene:

WHY did the Scottish Police (Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary) on the Label DP137 (the new fabricated and registered green MST-13 timer fragment) write the date from the 15th of September 1990 back to the 10th of September 1989 ?!

Answer: Most probably because on this rebooked date, 10th of September 1989, the first brown MST-13 Fragment was photographed on the vanished FBI-Polaroidphoto.

The new green fragment, photographed on Sept.1990, slipped into the role of the first brown fragment, photgaphed on Sept.1989. Only with the green fragment Libya could be linked to the PanAm 103 bombing!

To the memory: The MST-13 Timer delivered to Libya was equipped with green circuit boards.

More information on: www.lockerbie.ch
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Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd,

Zurich 28/04/2008 06:48:41
This Label DP137 and the back dated Polaroid-photo (12th of September 1989) was transmitted by Allen Feraday (RARDE) on the 15th of September 1990 together with a memorandum also dated back (15th of September 1989) to Chief Inspector William Williamson.

Feraday wrote in this memorandum: "Williy, enclosed are some Polaroid photographs of the green circuit board. Sorry about the quality, but it is the best I can do in such a shorte time".
"I feel that this fragment could be potentially most important. So any light your lads/lasses can shed upon the problem of identifying it would be most welcome.
Allen (Feraday)

MEBO comment:

Apparently Insp. Williamson was in hurry about his visit on the 20th of September 1990 to Switzerland. For the exchange of the brown into a green circuit board he needed a new Polaroid-photo from a green MST-13 fragment.
It is logic that the order for a new Polaroid-photo came from Inspector William Williamson and was transmitted to Allen Feraday.

More information on: www.lockerbie.ch
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Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd,

Zurich 28/04/2008 07:27:01


After a meeting at the 24 April 2008 in Zurich/Switzerland,

Justice Hamidi Faraj Fannoush (Libya) and Edwin Bollier (MEBO Ltd.) can admits to be made, that before beginning of the Appeal at the High Court in Edinburgh three further hearings will take place,if possible before the court holidays.
The next hearing is to start at the beginning of May 2008; with the demand of Mr Megrahi' s lawers to reject the SCCRC-ruling about the limit for grounds in Megrahi's appeal. (SCCRC limit of 6 grounds)

Tony Kelly says in earlier time: "We don't have to limit our appeal on the grounds the Commission has identified. We have carte blanche to make it on as many grounds as we want."
This includes the claims about the most important MEBO MST-13 fragment of the bomb's timing mechanism that was allegedly found in the countyside near Lockerbie in the months after the atrocity.

Not forgotten, only the green MST-13 fragment entangles Libya with the Lockerbie Tragedy.

Thus at the beginning of the Appeals, earliest can be counted at the end of September/October 2008.
MEBO will start nex week a Criminal Complaint against persons of the Swiss Federal Police (ex BUPO), in the connection with the assistant shank with an important evidence-fraud of Scottish investigation officials.
(International law support against the Scottish Justice.) (Concerns the MST-13 timer fragment, regarding the Falsification Evidence In the Lockerbie Case

More information on: www.lockerbie.ch
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freethekillie2,

kilmarnock 28/04/2008 15:30:31
This all smells to high heaven, and could be the one that brings the crown into disrepute.
all that value freedom justice fairness.
should sign the below petition on discloure of evidence.

http://gopetition.com/petitions/grant-disclosure-to-scottish-defendants.html
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Edwin & Mahnaz Bollier, Mebo Ltd,

Zurich/Switzerland 28/04/2008 22:08:20

By the disclosure of the events in the "Lockerbie-Affair" it shows up today as can be prove that before the attack on Boeing 747 the PanAm 103, a with the utmost care planned accusation (conspiracy) had been planned against the State of Libya by secret persons.

The "Lockerbie-Tragedy" is to be received not only as the largest case of crime of the century into history, but hopefully also as the largest re-examination in an international political crime, with the help of the UN. European Union, AU and the Arab League…
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2Right,

On Location 28/04/2008 22:47:59
This latest attempt at saving face for our judiciary is appalling.
Every other case predating Megrahi's and up to Gilmour once referred by SCCRC have proceeded as if Leave was granted without the need to go through sift.
Leaving it up to the defence teams to lodge their own Grounds, In actual fact allowing them to argue grounds that have previously failed.
So why the change of heart for Megrahi.

But then again he is also being denied access to documents despite Elish Angiolini clearly stating all of Crowns Case would be sent to accused and defence teams in ealy course.

Hear Angiolini yourself here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x11rHMJskY

And Here: (Jimmy Smith)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebOQ8jhw-9g

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Peter Cherbi,

Edinburgh 29/04/2008 09:40:46
Given the problems of the Scots Justice system, where many are fighting injustice caused to them by that same justice system, the Lord Advocate,the Justice Secretary and elements of the legal establishment should be sitting down together - along with their many victims & the public to heal things, rather than, as is apparent from the Lord Advocate's intentions as described by Iain McKie in his letter.

What the Lord Advocate proposes, is simply the slippery slope of curtailing & limiting access to justice - for all Scots, not just the Lockerbie Bomber ... and what we have here are elements of a justice system which has went out of control, more disposed to self preservation than addressing the needs of the country and the population at large.

If the Judiciary have any respect left at all for the rest of the country, such an application to limit the terms of appeal solely on the basis of saving face in the Lockerbie trial, or on any basis at all for that,should be thrown out. After all, we have heard many claims recently of interference in judicial authority by political elements, so much the judges made their case strongly before the Scottish Parliament in the recent hearings on the Judiciary & Courts (Scotland) Bill.

So, its time for the Judiciary to show some of that independence it protests to have, and remind not only the Lord Advocate, but the rest of the world, that the law is not there to be toyed with, or people's rights held to ransom over undesired outcomes in controversial cases which may hold the legal system to account for failures, fiddles, and downright disrespect of human rights and decency.

 

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