Comments on: Occupy Justice legal update http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/2692 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Society of Black Lawyers http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/2692#comment-5824 Society of Black Lawyers Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:47:02 +0000 http://occupyLSX.org/?p=2692#comment-5824 For almost 10 years (between 1998-2006), the Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) worked to acquire Old Street Magistrates Court in order to turn it into a ‘Community Courthouse’ for disadvantaged communities and in particular, young people. We developed a range of law-related community programmes aimed at teaching young people about the law (‘Youth4Justice’); providing free legal advice to the elderly (‘Elderly Legal Assistance Programme’); delivering free law seminars and workshops to those who required it (‘Legal Literacy Project’); and creating accredited volunteering opportunities to assist the unemployed in getting back into work (‘Volunteer Internship Programme’). The social and economic benefit to the surrounding community would have been immense had we succeeded in purchasing the courthouse, but due to the immense greed of the Tory controlled Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), the Old Street was put out to public tender and we could not compete with the financial clout of the likes of Mastcraft Ltd.

We intend to block any planning permission applications by Mastcraft Ltd to turn Old Street Magistrates’ Court into a high class exploitative hotel. They do not care about the community and Occupy Justice should not be fawning over such an immoral company.

The following ES article should be of interest to Occupy Justice members and supporters. This is what Mastcraft Ltd is really about:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-13618149-revealed-the-asylum-tycoon.do

]]> By: Drastic Spastic! http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/2692#comment-5823 Drastic Spastic! Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:27:56 +0000 http://occupyLSX.org/?p=2692#comment-5823 The point that everyone seems to forget……….Is……………..

The 1% DO NOT CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS OF THEM

200 years of Industrial exploitation proves that !

]]> By: Arvind Parmessur http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/2692#comment-5822 Arvind Parmessur Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:05:16 +0000 http://occupyLSX.org/?p=2692#comment-5822 Looks like Occupy has joined the Establishment!

]]> By: Andy http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/2692#comment-5821 Andy Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:19:41 +0000 http://occupyLSX.org/?p=2692#comment-5821 Hmm bunch of tax dodgers with a shady past. Be careful #occupylsx do not sell your soul to the devil.

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