Lawyers seething over British change to universal jurisdiction
This may be my last post for a while: Blogger just decided I'm a spam blog again and it's not allowing me to search this blog. In fact, it may not allow this post to go up for some period of time. Sorry.Britain's Guardian is reporting that 'Palestinians' and their supporters are outraged at a new plan that would institute safeguards before arrest warrants can be issued against visiting foreign leaders.
The attorney general will be asked to approve warrants before suspected war criminals can be arrested in future under a plan being negotiated by the Foreign Office in response to the row over attempts to arrest Israel's former foreign minister.Actually, it's outrageous to think that anyone can be arrested on the say so of a private attorney without any government prosecutorial involvement.
The Guardian has learned that discussions have begun in Whitehall on creating "safeguards" in criminal cases against visiting foreign leaders – not just those from Israel. Lawyers involved said they were outraged by the proposed change.
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"Livni supports a two-state solution. This attempt to secure her arrest has really set alarm bells ringing," said a senior Foreign Office source. "No one is talking about removing universal jurisdiction, but it's an anomaly that a magistrates court can issue an arrest warrant before a prosecutor has even said there is a case to prosecute. There need to be safeguards."
News of the prime minister's intervention provoked a furious response from lawyers and pro-Palestinian groups.
"I feel honest revulsion at the idea of a case where a judge has granted an arrest warrant and a politician gets on the phone and apologises," said Daniel Machover, a solicitor. "They have got to stay out of individual cases and legal decisions."
For those who have forgotten, Machover is an Israeli.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
Carl,
I hope that Blogger will realize just how ridiculous they are.I see that this is from Thursday, and it is now Friday.
Re al-Guardian? I am not capable of making any comment that would even resemble being polite.
Daniel Machover is an ex-Israeli Far Leftist Jewish anti-Semite. The fact he's helped to target Livni shows that Israel's enemies abroad make no real distinction between those in the government and in the opposition. All Jews are fair game to them. And its going to get worse in the future.
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