Comments on: Help Occupy London in the High Court – deadline for witness statements is 3pm on Friday

By: Paul Randle-Jolliffe

Paul Randle-Jolliffe — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:06:16 +0000

You can still submit late statements to go on the record monday morning but they must be signed and numbered paragraphs (format below)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE
Case No HQ11X04327

QUEENS BENCH DIVISION
Statement
Dated

BETWEEN:

THE MAYOR AND COMMONALITY AND
CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF LONDON
Claimants
-and-

TAMMY SAMEDE
1st Defendant

WITNESS STATEMENT OF

I make this statement believing the contents to be true and knowing that it will be put before the court and that I may be examined on the contents.

By: occupylsx

occupylsx — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:31:47 +0000

As soon as you can x

By: Anna-Rose

Anna-Rose — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:36:58 +0000

I’ll be submitting my witness statement ASAP, no later than Sunday 11th, either online or in person. I hope this isn’t too late?

By: HaveKippaWillTravel

HaveKippaWillTravel — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:28:39 +0000

I’d like to state that, for me, occupylondon at St Pauls Cathedral is an important way of expressing my right to peaceful protest and free speech.
During my time at the camp I have seen nothing but courtesy and charity, together with the displaying of ethics and participatory democracy that should serve as an example to the corporations which surround us.
My conversations on a daily basis with members of the public work for and are served by these same businesses and corporations have been invaluable and always conducted in a peaceful and mindful manner that I rarely see echoed elsewhere.
Other forums to express my concerns do not seem to exist currently and I am concerned that removing this camp will remove my ability to listen and be heard.
The camp is well organised, sustainable and serves as an example of a community which cares for its members and the wider community of which we are a part.
And so I would ask the court to allow this positive example to remain in situation and not to contribute to the invisibility of the citizens it exists – the court – to protect.
Thank-you.

By: greg wilkinson

greg wilkinson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:13:08 +0000

I came to St Pauls from Swansea as soon as I heard that people were there to stay. I did so because I felt that no main party or church was speaking for the great majority of people in Britain and round the world who do NOT benefit from the predominance of the City and the wealth it misdirects.
I am not happy with the diversion of our national product, out of the earnings and and tax revenues essential to public services and the health of our economy,into corporate profit and private excess..
As a believer in social democracy, I regret that it stops short when it comes to the direction and management of investments and coporporate activity. And that the power of an unaccountable ‘private sector’ – in which banks control five times our total national product – serves also to pervert the course of partliamentary government. I have lost confidence in a democratic process that seems to me hopelessly bent.
As evidenced in David Cameron’s veto on Europe, which effectively sells out Britain and Europe to the City, and reduces the United Kingdom to an ofhshore tax haven on a par with Jersey and the Cayman Islands.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:09:33 +0000

Is there any chance that the deadline can be postponed? I’d like to contribute but will be stuck at work until 16…

By: Just Human

Just Human — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:09:29 +0000

Hi. I’ll be submitting my statement shortly.
Best of luck.

By: meewaan

meewaan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:52:16 +0000

I think it is important to go through the Judicial process. If for no other reason, we need to give the judiciary more such occasions to show us its true colours.

We have now seen the UBS’s lawyer phoning Judge Proudman at home at night to have her issue eviction notice without the participation of the protestors. I bet there were giggles between the lawyer and the Judge when the Judge suggested to their lawyer to serve the notice of court hearing set by 9:45 pm by text message at 9:18pm to the protester without any details of where is the hearing or how to contact the Judge. This conjures up the image of Mr Corleone’s (the God Father’s) lawyer phoning a friendly judge’s home late in the night to do a favor. The Bankers who looted our money are no better than the Mafia.

This shows that Justice is merely a game. If you have money to afford top lawyers, the Judges are happy to play the game late at night from home. The Judiciary now does not even care how this kind of conduct will look to the public because there is no consequence for them – Judiciary is answerable and accountable to no one.

It is simply a game which they put on the wigs and gowns to play their part of the game.

They are the guard dogs of the 1%, the Mafia, This Mafia uses the Judiciary to give it some respectability, If you dare to not obey Judges’ Order to leave, the bailiff will be accompanied by riot police equipped with peppery spray, tear gas, plastic bullets, tazer guns, armored vehicles etc to remove you.

The wigs and robes are not going to blind people’s eyes, they wigs and robes and the puppet beneath and behind them can not give permission to revolution. They are here to prevent it.

Yet, they will spent tax payers money to sit there for 4 days to pretend that they are listening to the arguments.

Judiciary is not a venue for justice, it is part of the problem we have, it is part of that corrupted system we want to reform. They know it.

By: Rachel H

Rachel H — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:14:27 +0000

Hi, I’m going to submit a full statement tomorrow but find a lot of the claim language to be ambiguous to say the least. I’m sure the team have covered it but there are definite grounds for rebuttals under EU legislation. Good luck x

By: occupylsx

occupylsx — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:21:52 +0000

Thank you. Do submit it to the legal team too! They need some specifics in there. Check the link above x