Dame Harold
big in the seventies and only er freshly dead...
For the young - Thalidomide maimed a few thousand babies here and they sued. The big pharma entered a plea and then kept it under wraps for ten years ! no discussion under the sub judice rule
1972 Denning a very famous law lord ( more famous even perhaps than our very own NJ - am I allowed to say that?(*)) said ten years of doing nuffin wasnt sub judice
1962 Dame Harold for it was he - called Philby a spy ! and he fled - forty years after he should have been identified
as in teh Dennis Nilsen saga - were we really as sluggish as that fifty years ago?
er RIP Dame Harold
(*) Association footballer Paul Gascoigne sued on privacy ( action failed - pre 1999 HRA ) and the initial exchange in court was reported somewhat like this ....
(J) Judge Hooly for it was he: dont we know the law on this?
QC1 for our Paul: m'lord I think there are points to clarified....
my client Paul Gazza Gacoigne////
(J) Gazza ? (Yes m;lord) Is nt there an opera about Gazza?
QC I am willing to be instructed ....
(J) La Gazza Ladra - the silken Ladder
QC my lords knowledge is all-encompassing ....
[sounds like a night on AB]
the QC continued - My client is famous
J - is he? I havent heard of him
QC more famous perhaps than the Beatles
J oh I know who they are - you wont get me on that one
[note: Melford steveson remarked once - what are the Beatles?] to show his otherworldliness
case eventually dismissed - the DT court correspondent carried on: There is an opera La Gazza Ladra - the thieving magpie and another - La scala di sete - The Silken Ladder.
Neither libretto features an association footballer
have fun boys and girls