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manuel bravo's death unnecessary with the court change

maurice frank | 17.09.2005 10:25 | Anti-racism | Migration

The Independent today has a front-page exclusive on an asylum seeker based in Leeds, Manuel Bravo, who committed suicide in Yarlswood in order to prevent his son's deportation back to Angola. Their case had already been screwed by solicitors who took money and failed to represent them, and though they had not yet lost the case they were slammed into Yarlswood improperly to intimidate them - with this result. But there is a legal advance, the "court change", that all the big asylum groups have ignored and that would have made this disgusting injustice preventable.

Keith Best of the Immigration Advisory Service sent me an acknowledgement of the court change on 15 Aug 02, but all the other big asylum aid groups have ignored it, including the one the Independent has got speaking out on this terrible case of Manuel Bravo's suicide: NCADC. The court change means that all decisions on immigration and asylum are faultable on their logic, open-endedly, and it is not in anyone's power, government office or court, to take a decision that stands as final. Think how this totally removes from the asylum system its disgusting mediaeval aspect of begging for favour. It has been the case ever since 1999, throughout all the recent years of injustice and hate - think how many cases it would have made a difference to, where deportations have happened and been followed by disaster - and it has been ignored and not forced into public knowledge overcoming the cover-up.

Same in the debt relief and aid scene. None of the big aid charities, including Oxfam whose Director of Policy and Campaigns Justin Forsyth moved on to the Downing Street Policy Unit, and Make Poverty History with its cosiness with the elite. They caused this tragedy too by their silence.

THE COURT CHANGE IN 148 COUNTRIES: legal decisions are not final.

Its shifting of power in favour of ordinary people ensures that it has been under a media silence. but it's on publicly traceable record through petitions 730/99 in the European, PE6 and PE360 in the Scottish, parliaments.

Since 7 July 1999 all court or other legal decisions
are "open to open ended fault finding by all parties
and recapitulation therupon" instead of final.
This follows from my European Court of Human Rights
case 41597/98 on an insurance scam of evictions of
unemployed people from hotels. This case referred to
violation of civil status from 13 May 1997, yet the
adissibility decision claimed the last inland decision
stage was on 4 Aug 1995. ECHR has made itself illegal,
by claiming finality in issuing a syntactically
contradictory nonsense decision that reverses the
physics of time. It violates every precedent of
member countries' laws recognising the chronology of
cause and effect, in evidence.

The European Convention's section on requiring a court
to exist, now requires its member countries to create
a new ECHR that removes the original's illegality, by
its decisions not being final. It follows this
requires inland courts to be compatible with open
ended decisions and doing inland work connected to
them. Hence legal decisions inland,within countries,
also cease to be final and become open ended, in the
46 Council of Europe countries.

The concept of "leave to appeal" is abolished and
judges no longer have to be crawled to as authority
figures. Every party in a case is automatically
entitled to lodge a fault finding against any
decision, stating reasons. These are further return
faultable, including by the original fault finder,
stating reasons. A case reaches its outcome when all
fault findings have been answered or accepted.

World trade irreversibly means jurisdictions are not
cocooned but have overlapping cases. When a case
overlaps an affected and unaffected country, the
unaffected country becomes affected, through having to
deal with open ended case content open endedly,
that can affect any number of other cases open
endedly. Open endedness is created in its system.

Anyone can add to the list of court change countries
outside the Council of Europe, showing autocracies,
pending their freer futures, as well as democracies. It starts with:
Israel and Lebanon through the case in Belgium on the
Sabra-Chatila massacres.
America, Canada, Australia through my child brain
research ethics dispute with Arizona university,
stalled by an American government obstruction of
justice. Obviously there will be many cases making
these 3 countries court change, so I should not be
seen as seeking the ego fantasy of taking personal
credit for it through my case, but time priority
entitles me to put my case in the list like this.

Rest of the list:
Kosovo through war crimes cases overlapping
Yugoslavia.
North Cyprus through Turkey's UN legal challenge
against South Cyprus joining the EU.
Belarus through its election dispute with OSCE
election monitoring.
Vatican City through Sinead O'Connor's ordination as a
Catholic priest.
Cuba through Elian Gonzalez.
Haiti through objecting to receiving petty crime
deportations from America.
Antigua through its constitutional crisis on capital
punishment
Trinidad through its Privy Council case on capital
punishment.
Jamaica through claims on both sides of American
linked arms trade background to its violence.
Mexico through the Benjamin Felix drug mafia
extradition to America.
Belize through Michael Ashcroft.
Guatemala through the child stealing and adoption
scandal overlapping America.
Colombia through America's supposed human rights
policy
intervention in training Colombian police and
military.
Venezuela through Luis Posada Carriles.
Guyana through the £12m debt claim dropped by Iceland
(the shop).
Brazil through EU immigration unfairnesses to its
football players,
necessitating a mafia trade in false passports.
Argentina through its ECHR case on the General
Belgrano.
Chile through General Pinochet.
Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay through Judge Garzon's
citation of Henry Kissinger for the South American
military conspiracy Operation Condor.
Chad and Senegal through a French action in Senegal
obtaining Chad's former dictator Habre for trial under
Pinochet's precedent.
Algeria through the Harkis'case from the Algerian war.
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Morocco through the
Insight News case.
Ivory Coast through the chocolate slavery scandal.
Ghana through the World Bank's Dora slave scandal.
Togo through the Lome peace accords for Sierra Leone,
and their breaking as an issue in factional arms
supply to there.
Burkina Faso through an arms trade case of smuggling
through it from Ukraine to civil war factions in
Sierra Leone and Angola.
Niger and Rwanda through Oxfam's case of buying an
arms trade "end user certificate" for Rwanda in Niger.
Burundi through the war crimes trial of Rwanda's 1994
head of state.
Tanzania and Japan through the 2000 G8 summit, because
Tanzania Social and Economic Trust broadcast a
contradiction in implementing both its wishes for
economic advance and its debt relief terms.
Mozambique through its cashew nuts dispute with the
World Bank.
South Africa and Lesotho through a WHO case against
American pharmaceutical ethics there.
Nigeria through reported Nigerian drug mafia crime in
South Africa.
Dahomey and Gabon through their slave trafficking
scandals overlapping Nigeria and Togo.
Zimbabwe through its land finances dispute with
Britain.
Equatorial Guinea through the charges in Zimbabwe of a
coup conspiracy.
Malawi through its arrests of Zimbabwean refugees
callously deported from Britain.
Zambia through Cafod's collection of objections to
food supply and health violations in its IMF
structural adjustment program.
Namibia through the Herero genocide case against
Germany.
Angola, Congo Kinshasa, Ecuador through arms trade
smuggling to them from Bulgaria and Slovakia.
Congo Brazzaville through the Jean-Francois Ndenge
case in France.
Sudan through Al Shafi pharmaceutical factory suing
America for bombing it.
Ethiopia through aid sector comment on its conditional
debt relief.
Eritrea through its border dispute with Ethiopia.
Somaliland through its problem with Russian and South
Korean coastal fishing.
Kenya through the Archer's Post munitions explosion
case overlapping Britain.
Uganda through the Acholiland child slave crisis and
Sudan's agreement to return children.
Mauritius through the Ilois rights judgment on the
Chagos clearances.
Yemen through its problem with Spain over the missile
shipment.
United Arab Emirates through Mohammed Lodi.
Saudi Arabia through the lawsuit by families of 911
victims.
Qatar through the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Bahrain through the call for American witnesses in
Richard Meakin's case.
Kuwait through the terrorism arrests in Saudi Arabia.
Iraq through the weapons inspection dispute before the
invasion. NB this does not mean the dispute or
invasion were right!
Jordan through its threat of "unspecified measures" in
its relations with Israel.
Egypt through its disputes with Tanzania and Kenya
over use of Nile water.
Libya, Syria, Iran through the Lockerbie bomb trial.
Uzbekistan through the ambassadorial exposee on
evdience obtained by torture there and used in Western
courts.
Afghanistan through Ben Laden.
Pakistan through a dispute between supporters of
enslaved women and the British embassy for not helping
them escape.
India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia through the World
Wildlife Fund's campaign for tiger conservation,
conflicting western romanticism with local populations
affected by the homicidal absurdity of conserving a
human predator.
Nepal through the Gurkhas' lawsuit for equal pay and
pensions.
Vietnam through a church publicised refugee dispute
overlapping China.
Cambodia through its enactment for a trial of the
Khmer Rouge Holocaust.
Laos through Peter Tatchell's application to arrest
Henry Kissinger.
Thailand through Sandra Gregory.
Burma through the Los Angeles judgment on the Unocal
oil pipeline.
Sri Lanka through its call for the Tamil
Tigers'banning in Britain.
East Timor through public reaction to the judgment
against trying Suharto.
Papua New Guinea through WWF's Kikori mangrove logging
affair.
New Zealand through its ban on British blood
donations.
Nauru through the Australian civil liberty challenge
on the Tampa refugees.
Fiji through its land crisis's nonracial solubility by
a Commonwealth constitutional question against rent
and mortgages.
Tuvalu through environmentalist challenges to
America's rejection of international agreements on
global warming and sea level.
Marshall Islands through the Nuclear Claims Tribunal
cases.
Philippines and Malaysia through the international
police investigation in the Jaybe Ofrasio trial in
Northern Ireland.
South Korea through its jurisdiction dispute with the
American army.
North Korea through its apology to Japan for abductions.

maurice frank

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