Were they only carrying out their lawful duties?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....police-operation.html

Regardless of your thoughts on the Police or the Monarchy, were the police only doing their duty in carrying out these searches?

It seems that our police are forever having their hands tied behind their backs, by individuals taking out various injunctions against them.

/// Lawyers for Ms Middleton and Mr Lewis argue that the searches constituted an 'unlawful interference' with their right to respect for their homes and private life under human rights legislation. ///

Since 'their homes' are on a squatters site, are they really their homes at all?

/// They are also challenging the legality of a decision by Bromley magistrates to grant the police a search warrant.///

It would seem that they can't be seen to be doing things lawfully, even if they are in possession of a lawful 'search warrant'.

[Ankou]

"the arrests were unjustified as the police had no reasonable grounds for suspecting a breach of the peace."

they have won the right challenge that in a legal context, thats all. so let the legal wranglings commence and we'll found out whats right or not.

[andy-hughes]

If a judge decides that there are grounds for an investigation, then it would suggest that the police have indeed overstepped the mark.

Just because the police act lawfully 99% of the time does not allow them to act unlawfully for 1%, with the 99% as justification. That is the thin end of a very nasty wedge.

The law has to be applied scrupulously, and everyone is entitled to its protection. It doesn't work on a sliding scale of perceived deservedness by observers who have no knowledge of the circumstances except those conveyed by a self-serving biased media.

[jake-the-peg]

Well it certainly suggests that there is some merit in the claim.

I know that certain people would like to deny access to legal redress to certain sorts of people

The "After all if they're scruffy, they're clearly just trying to waste court time with malicious prosecutions" mentality.

But I hope we left that behind with rotton boroughs and doffing our caps to the local squire

[sandyRoe]

It would be a sad day if the cut of your jib, or your lifestyle, or the colour of your skin, was considered reason enough to be searched by the police.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

There are many if not all questions carried out by,

/// observers who have no knowledge of the circumstances except those conveyed by a self-serving biased media.///

as you put it, or is it only because it as been reported by the Daily Mail, that seemingly upsets you in such a way?

We enter (or at least I do) these questions as a subject of debate, and not to say one has it wrong or not, we just add personal opinions, without trying to insult or belittle anyone.

They would be no point in Debating Chambers, AnswerBank, Question Time or any other such activity, if those taking part didn't personally question various issues.

There have been posts in support of the Judges making the final decisions, and yet regularly on this web-site Judges regularly come up for questioning.

In this case no one knows what information the Police had on these persons, and yet plenty have questioned the police's response, but had an incident had occurred, then I would guarantee that they would have also come up for criticism from some quarters.

In one of the photographs the police can be seen carrying weapons in the Mall, I would suppose that some would also question this?

[jackthehat]

Oh....AOG....far better to stride onto the other question and 'put him right' on the incorrect assumptions, etc. he has made, than hide-away in here........anyone would think that you were afraid.

[cathfromsaron]

they will probably squeeze every last bit of compo out of the justice system, and take police officers away from their real duties in the process!

[Answerprancer]

Git, he's not a 'well know(n) troublemaker' and to say so is manipulative and divisive IMO.
Furthermore he has *obviously* constructed a new thread with a heading similar to yours in order to make a valid point which relates to your one.
Do you have absolutely no sense of irony ?

[jake-the-peg]

Headline? Copying others?

Does he mean my avatar?

Sorry to disappoint AOG - he's nothing to do with you

He's my little pun - he's a "puppy fascist" - he'll go next week

[bazwillrun]

Shame they arent so quick to arrest the muslim scum that burn our countrys flag though

[jackthehat]

......or perhaps you are just embarrassed, instead......?

[bazwillrun]

previous reply incorrectly posted

[Answerprancer]

Burning bits of cloth isn't illegal (unless it constitutes a health and safety risk).

[bazwillrun]

but they are trying to cause trouble by and these muslim trash are pretty comfortable knowing the police (leftwing community force) are pretty scared to touch them.

if it was a group of whites burning the koran her majesties finest would be all over them like a disease