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Zksa Nick Clegg s defence of liberal justice belies legal aid gloom One sunny July morning in 2020, Bulelani Qol <a href=Link cup</a> ani was washing inside his corrugated-iron shack in Ethembeni informal settlement when his door was kicked in. Four officers from Cape Towns Anti-Land Invasion Unit banged on the metal roof, yelling at him in racist and derogatory terms to get out. There was no engagement, no explanation, says Qolani. I tried to get out of the house. Then I realised people had gathered outside and I was naked. I tried to go back in because I was ashamed and embarrassed. The officers pepper-sprayed him before punching and kicking him; one pushed him to the ground until he managed to break free and run back inside. While he sat on his bed, his shack was torn down around him before officers moved on to destroy other dwellings. The incident was caught on video, uploaded on to social media with Qolanis permission, and covered extensively in the media.As a result of this and previous evictions at the height of the pandemic, the South African Human Rights Commission sued Cape Town council. The citys conduct was ruled unlawful, with one of the judges commenting that the evictions policy was reminiscent of apartheid-era forced removals .Two years on, a new bylaw <a href=Link vaso</a> has been passed that criminalises the act of occupying public and private land, legitimising the authori <a href=Link cup website</a> tys behaviour. Civil society organisations and informal settlement residents say the law targets the poor, criminalises poverty, harks back to apartheid legislation and contravenes South Africas Frzp Barclay brothers lose supreme court challenge over Sark politics One of the country s leading criminal defence lawyers has accused sections of the media of waging a misleading and self-interested campaign over the UK s privacy laws, and questioned whether there is any public interest in exposing the private lives of footballers and celebrities.Angus McBride, whose clients have included Kate and Gerry McCann and the England football captain, John Terry, says that he does not believe that the media in this country has earned the right to unfettered freedom of expression .Drawing on his own experiences working for the McCann family in the months after Madeleine was abducted, he recalls visiting a number of Fleet Street editors to ask them to show restraint in their reporting, particularly over some of the wilder uncorroborated claims that were being circulated by the Portuguese press. It is fair to say that a number o <a href=Link cups</a> f the editors listened carefully and their subsequent reporting reflected ?the fact that they understood that to report the allegations would be immoral, scurrilous and damaging to the efforts of many to find Madeleine McCann, says McBride, a partner in the firm Kingsley Napley. Others, however, listened coldly and made it quite clear that commercial pressures trumped completely the rights of these two tragic parents and their daughter. I was told this whodunnit my <a href=Link cup</a> stery was one of the biggest stories in many years ?and tha <a href=Link borraccia</a> t the truth of what had taken place was not going to get in t | |
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