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Solicitors' body comes to heel -
Times, 1nov01, p15 The solicitors' complaints body, which
is accused today of failing to give the public crucial information about its
members' track records, is to lose its independent identity. The Office for the Supervision of
Solicitors (OSS), which receives 16,085 complaints a year, one for every five
solicitors, is to be brought under the direct control of the Law Society of
England and Wales. The move comes as a Which? report says
that the organisation's helpline is far from helpful and fails to tell people
if their solicitor has been disciplined or struck off. "The OSS seemed
reluctant or unable to give out the correct information," it said. Solicitors under fire Letter
from Mr John Wilson, Times, 1nov01, p21 Sir, David Blunkett has angered
solicitors by casting aspersions on their professional standards (report,
oct29). For ten years I have been specialising in representing clients who
have a complaint about a solicitor, so I know something about furious
lawyers. The lawyers are quite right in pointing
out just the latest example of the executive branch not always being entirely
full-square with civil liberties. But they are hardly a shining beacon
themselves. Time and time again I have been
consulted by a client who has been let down by a lawyer making the sort of
elementary mistakes that any sane person would just own up to and refer to
the insurance company, only to be met by the professional shutters slamming
down. In contrast to the frequent stories of
doctors being exposed and punished for incompetence, lawyers seem to be
immune from this sort of coverage. Mr Blunkett's outburst makes a pleasant
change, but at what cost to our liberties? Yours, John Wilson (Solicitor), 6a Rodney Lane, Leeds LS13 1HU Bar for the course Cambridge lecturer Gillian Evans has
gone back to being a student on the Bar vocational course. She is
unimpressed. - Guardian Education, 8jan02, p12 .... Students who are made to feel it
would be unwise to use their critical faculties until after they are safely
"called". A culture of toadying is actively fostered, for one must
network to get the best pupillages. .... .... the depth of the
institutionalised discrimination they practise. .... .... While winds of
change at the Bar Council and the Law Society are stopped by
draught-excluders of complacency and students' fear of professional
disadvantage if they say what they think, all this will presumably go on.
.... it needs to be run in a way that will produce barristers who will take a
lead in the reform of the legal profession. .... Solicitor jailed -
Times, 11dec01, p4 A solicitor with assets of more than £1 million
stole £73,000 from a 91-year-old aunt to buy a luxury boat. David Benham, 59,
of Southwark, London, who denied stealing from an account set aside to pay
for nursing home fees, was jailed for six months by Winchester Crown Court. Solicitors bring in Layman to see fair play -
Francis Gibb, Times, 25jan02, p6 The solicitors' complaints system, which
handles 12,000 grievances a year, is to be overhauled and placed under the
scrutiny of a non-;lawyer for the first time. ....
in an effort to boost public confidence .... The society has succeeded so far in
seeing off ministerial threats that it be stripped if its self-regulatory
powers. .... Two years ago, .... complainants ....
were told that they would have to wait a year before their grievances were
dealt with., the Lord Chancellor threatened to remove the Law Society's power
to regulate itself. .... Lawrence sergeant cleared of rapes -
Sam Lister, Times, 11dec01, p4 Accusations of multiple rape against a
police sergeant who was highly praised in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry
were thrown out at the Old Bailey yesterday. The trial of Peter Solley, accused of
raping a woman on nine occasions, was stopped after Judge David Paget
described the alleged victim's evidence as "manifestly unreliable".
The woman said that Sergeant Solley, 47, had committed the rapes during a
secret five-year relationship, but after three days of cross-examination the
prosecution dropped all charges. The .... woman, a black community
worker, .... the defence, suggested that the woman made the accusations
because Sergeant Solley had rejected her. .... Sergeant Solley, from Beckenham, Kent,
said: "I find it astonishing that the complainant can be shielded by
anonymity, despite the finding that she is a proven liar." Women should go it alone -
Jeremy Campbell, Evening Standard, 4dec01, p20 A startling survey had found that women
learn about one third less than men in college. Nearly 20,000 students at 56
colleges were interviewed, comparing scores on a standardised test. Gender was
a "huge" factor, according to Professor Ernest Pascarella of the
University of Iowa. Women fell behind most in maths and science. .... Spouse -
Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, 20july01 The Crown Prosecution Service has banned
its 6,000 employees from using the word 'spouse'. In future, those working at
the organisation responsible for bringing all criminal prosecutions will have
to refer to 'partners' or 'friends' whenever they invite a colleague to a
social event. Using the term 'spouse' assumes someone is married and leaves
homosexuals feeling excluded, claimed a rulebook designed to eliminate
discrimination. Two days before -
Melanie Phillips, Sunday Times, 9sep01, p17 .... Liberal values will be protected
only if Christianity holds the line as our dominant culture. A society which
professes neutrality between cultures would create a void which Islam, with
its militant political creed, would attempt to fill. .... society is
beginning to understand the need for truth-telling, family stability and
distinctions between right and wrong, against all of which the Establishment
has set its face. .... Prisons - Rechel Sylvester, Telegraph, 17dec01, p12 HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, .... forced
out of his job .... he was shocked to find staff in a mental ward had been
falsifying suicide watch records. .... the Home Office is "a terrible
place". .... the Home Office bureaucracy has "spiralled out of
control". .... "Civil servants .... not used to putting things into
practice .... Very few of our ministers have ever run anything, either -
they're all professional politicians. ...." Ill18 p2 The Intervening Variable Kaye Wellings
et. al, Sexual Behaviour in Britain, pub. Penguin 1994, is the Gold Standard
of statistics on the subject. Of particular interest is their figure for
homosexual practice. pp183/5, find homosexuals number only around 1% of the
population. (Ill Eagle 10, p2) Buggery is a tiny minority sport, as is even
the desire to bugger. The winter 01/02 issue no. 106 of the
FYC Bulletin, p1, discusses the follow-up articles to the Wellings
book, published in the Lancet of 1dec01 (vol. 358). Here we see interesting
manipulation of facts for political ends. "The whole thrust of the article
is immensely encouraging to the govt, .... the most important predictor of
early motherhood is given as the educational level of the teenage girl. ....
[also,] 'the factors most strongly associated with risk behaviour and adverse
outcomes have considerable potential for preventive intervention'. "Lurking in all these columns of
figures is the uncomfortable fact of family structure. .... [the article]
ignores the extent to which educational level and family structure are
linked. [i.e. bad family structure causes both
teenage pregnancy and also bad educational outcome.] Anyone who thinks that
standards in education can be raised irrespective of the home backgrounds of
pupils obviously hasn't been in a school lately. Unless the govt's teenage
pregnancy strategy is prepared to take family structure on board, the
'potential for preventive intervention' may be less than the authors of this
study seem to think." The last paragraph chillingly contrasts Wellings's statistic on people admitting to ten or more
partners with the large number who had had no partner at all; ".... for
many people, the breakdown of the family brought about by the sexual
revolution has resulted in lives characterised by loneliness and
sterility." FYC (Family & Youth Concern) is at www.famyouth.org.uk Prostate cancer and diet .... if you have any specific questions
relating to prostate cancer and diet, .... email diet@prostate-cancer.org.uk
or ring 020 8222 7622 Do children come first? -
Cristina Odone, Observer,
20jan02, p23 .... a baby had been ditched at the
roadside by his mama. .... the 24-year-old had already dumped an older child,
whom she had left with her mother to raise. Charles, the three-month-old baby
she left near the airport of Faro had a cleft lip and palate. .... Dismissing
a life as if it were an uninvited guest; opting for instant gratification
.... placing self above others - all deserve to be roundly condemned .... Yet it is not. Or at least not by the
liberal commentators .... 'It is not always easy being a parent,' proclaimed
one headline, above a piece which went on to lay the blame for bad mothers
like Penny squarely on - you guessed it - men. .... It allows women to regard
motherhood as a project which entails no more commitment than a Berlitz
course in French, which they can .... always drop out of. .... an arena for competing rights ....
she wins, hands down, every time .... lots of supporters .... will raise a
wail of apologies on her behalf. [I am mystified by the remark "the
liberal commentators" being allowed in the Observer. For years, the
Observer/Guardian stable has fronted a more vicious attack on the family and
on men than anyone else. However, it seemed to wobble more than a year ago,
when it allowed in Rabinovich even though she was
under the influence of Oliver Cyriax. Perhaps
Melanie Phillips could go back now! - Ed] The Real Goal of Feminism: Transforming Society -
Antonia Feltz, 2/3/00 Speech delivered at the Inverell Forum. At www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/THE
REAL GOAL OF FEMINISM.htm This is perhaps the definitive analysis
and indictment of what I call the Radfem Ideology,
but Feltz would tend to make me call it Feminazi. Reading it had a powerful
effect on me. Show it to your well-meaning women friends. – Ed Dworkin "I want to see a man beaten to a
bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth
of a pig." - Andrea Dworkin, leading feminist speaker, speaking through
a character in her book Ice and Fire. Gloria Steinmen
says of Andrea Dworkin; "In every century, there are a handful of
writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them". Quoted
by Warren Farrell in his book; Women Can't Hear ...., pub. Tarcher/Putnam 1999, p179. Recently, Dworkin co-authored a book
with the other extremist Catharine MacKinnon, who played a part in drafting
recent Canadian legislation. ".... rape, which by conservative
definition happened to almost half of all women at least once in their
lives." - C A MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, pub.
Harvard Univ. Press 1989, p142. The right to life Sadly, Afghan women have been deprived
of their right to education, employment, and freedom of movement. At the same
time, many thousands of Afghan men have been selectively targeted in a series
of involuntary inscriptions, forced detentions, torture, and executions. As a
result, many thousands of innocent men have lost the most precious right of
all: the right to life. [Full article at www.ivorcatt.com/2006.htm ] Josephine Smith Shot her husband as he slept. Convicted
in 1993. Women's groups criticised the verdict. Has now been referred to the
Court of Appeal. More girls than boys shoplift -
John Steele, Telegraph, 5dec02 [21,000 men and 24,000 women] .... the
growing predominance of schoolgirls .... was most worrying. .... some
offenders came from troubled backgrounds but about 50% were from affluent
families. How fathers fit into the family A fact sheet for secondary schools from
CIVITAS which is in general agreement with ManKind.
For example; "Statistics about children who do
not live with their fathers can be grim. On almost every outcome that has
been tested, including educational achievement, self-esteem, responsible
social behaviour, and adjustment as adults, children do better when they live
with both parents." CIVITAS, tel
020 7401 5471 www.civitas.org.uk The cost of Radfem policies Generally, Britain plans to follow NZ's
expensive radfem policies, which our chairman said
would bankrupt them.. Date: 08 January 2002 06:02 Dear Julian, RE New Zealand, navy cuts and RW's prediction. Do you recall the email exchange we had
[two years ago] about New Zealand and its expenditure on social services and
legal aid ? I said it would soon have to give up its
defence capability and rely on Australia if it continued on its present path. Well, it looks like that prediction is
coming true. The BBC reports, within the last 48
hours, that NZ is to give up most of its surface fleet. I got it slightly wrong when I said that
all they would be left with would be a few frigates. It seems that they're
going to give those up and keep the supply ships instead. And the airforce,
of about 18 planes, is up for sale too. Robert Whiston Cohabitees to adopt children! With or without children, only 4% of
cohabitees stay together for more than 10 years. Source, Lynette Burrows, our
2000 conference speaker. Ill18 p3 Editorial Catch 22 Fiebert,
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/07088.htm and numerous other sources show us that
domestic violence (DV) is initiated more often by women than by men. This
creates a major problem when we discuss the issue with our female allies.
They know that women are not violent. [Also see http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/17137.htm
and http://www.ivorcatt.com/2023.htm
] Some years ago, I emphasised to Melanie
Phillips and to Erin Pizzey that whenever they make the assertion, that women
attack men more often than men attack women, they must add the caveat that
there is very little violence started by anybody. Home Office Report No. 191,
which gives violence from women as well as men at 4.2%, is a useful
reference. The assertion that women too are
violent, made on its own, does not defend the traditional family. Quite the
reverse. In contrast, if joined by the assertion that there is very little
violence overall, it has a positive effect. The anti-family axis which
includes MacKinnon, Harman, Hewitt, Dworkin, Stinko, Jay, Bindell,
will be helped, rather than hindered, by assertions that women are violent as
well. It is unwise to give them even more power, by helping their cause,
which is to destroy the traditional family on the grounds that it is a
dangerous place to be, as Stinko asserts. We may diverge from some of our
perceived allies on this matter. For instance, those who want to get funding
for refuges for male victims may exaggerate the problem. What would be
legitimate would be for them to assert that the problem of male victims
equals that for female victims. Let us hope that they desist from any
tendency to go beyond that. Mary Cleary of AMEN, who set up the first refuge
for battered men, and who now receives funding from the Irish govt, does not
overstep this mark. The Domestic Violence Industry, which
includes those who try to set up refuges for men, continually broadens the
definition of Domestic Violence in order to increase their funding and their
job security. Their definition, which is accepted by government, now includes
"Financial Violence" - the withdrawal of money from one's spouse.
It also includes shouting and also threat of violence. (Extraordinarily, when
Stinko says that one quarter of women experience DV in the home, she is also
saying that three quarters of women have never been shouted at!) Given this,
it is of major importance that those who correctly say that men assault women
no more less than women assault men, include discussion of their definitions
in the same piece. The issue is clouded by the fact of
attacks by men on men. However, that is a completely different issue. The key
to this is difference chivalry. Today it is completely overlooked, for good
reason, that from the cradle boys are taught to never attack a woman, and
they never do. The reason why this incessant training is ignored is that it
clashes with radfem dogma, that men are trained to
oppress women, for instance fathers sexually abusing their daughters in order
to prepare them for oppression later on within marriage. The continuance of a
heavy theme of chivalry in our society had to be overlooked if radfem dogma were to gain a hold, as it has. The
continuing reign of chivalry means that women may attack women, men may
attack men, women may attack men. Any attack by men on women is outlawed. The reality, that men do not attack
women, explains the increasing shrillness of such charges; for instance, the
fantastic charge that men regularly kick pregnant women in the stomach. Since
the whole thing is a lie, it may as well be further embroidered. ManKind and Ill Eagle can be reached at:- 1). Suite 367, 2 Lansdowne Row,
London W1X 8HL. 3)
Email Head.Office@mankind.co.uk The Editor, Ivor Catt, 121 Westfields,
St. Albans AL3 4JR, England. ( 01727 - 864257 Email ivor@ivorcatt.com DV -
Dina Rabinovich, Guardian,
26nov01, p6 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=111911 .... Last year was not good for Pizzey:
she was diagnosed with cancer, and her grandson, Kelta,
a schizophrenic, committed suicide in a prison cell. .... she managed to have
the case reheard - last month a jury .... found unanimously that his death
was contributed to by the neglect of prison staff. .... a "legal
landmark" .... .... the statistic that every third day
a woman in this country is beaten or killed by a current or ex-partner. When
I repeat this to PIzzey, it causes her to grimace.
She doesn't accept the thesis - that only men need to change their behaviour
- or the figures. "If you come from a dysfunctional,
violent and sexually abusive family, how do you learn? Therefore, domestic
violence can't be a gender issue, it can't be just men ...." DV "One in four women experience
domestic violence at some stage in their lives" - Poisonous, socially
destructive Stinko lies put out by the Church of England, see
www.oxford.anglican.org/docs/100189446124996.shtml Dear Mr. Catt, I request that you stop all communication
with me. I find the letters you forward to me abusive and distressing. I am
certain that your mother and sister would be appalled if they knew that you
were so unkind to people you have never met. Sincerely, Professor EA Stanko
20mar2000 ESRC defends Radfem 'research' 22jan02 Dear Mr. Catt, .... the complaint which
you sent to us .... in which you claimed that Professor Betsy Stanko had
falsified a (research) result, namely that 1 in 4 women experience Domestic
Violence in the home. .... the source of the complaint was a publication
entitled "Counting the Costs" .... published in 1998 by Crime
Concern. .... I cannot find any grounds for supporting the view that the
findings in the report are falsified. In fact the report is very careful in
its methodology and the basis for its conclusion, and does so in transparent
detail. There seems therefore to be absolutely no case for this to be seen as
falsification and I cannot therefore accept your complaint. Yours sincerely,
Chris Caswill, Director of Research, ESRC chris.caswill@esrc Full text at www.ivorcatt.com/2004.htm [See Melanie Phillips on Stanko’s
falsification in Melanie’s book “The Sex-Change Society ….” Pub. SMF 1999, pp139,142, 192 - 195] Gobbledeygook Take care of the sounds, and the sense will take care of
itself - Lewis Carroll In Redbourn in
the '60s, I went across the road to a further education lecture series by a
gardener. Since he was a real gardener, his middle class audience listened in
rapt silence. They admired The Common Man. However, I realised that the
gardener, having heard lectures, and knowing what they sounded like, was
actually making noises which sounded like a lecture, but which had no
content. Fearing that my suppressed guffaws would offend my anxious
neighbours, I never attended again. Radfems,
using the argument that rationality is part of patriarchal oppression, have
taken over large swathes of academia and filled it with such gobbledeygook. A good eaxmple
is of course Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a
Feminist Theory of the State, pub. Harvard UP 1989. I willote a justification for such gobbledeygook
by twqo academics in England, Victoria Robinson and
Diane Richardson: Introducing Women’s
Studies, pub. Macmillan 1993/7. On p2, Robinson writes; “If a fundamental feature of Women’s
Studies is the simple yet radical belief in an approach to knowledge which
places women at the centre of analysis (challenging an androcentric/phallocentric
notion of knowledge which can be defined as men's experiences and priorities
being seen as central and representative of all), then this realisation of a
theoretical dishonesty has profound implications for how we organise, structure,
teach and research within the disciplines and the academy in general. This
'simple' shift in theorising and teaching recognises the politics of theory
in terms of the so-called objectivity of knowledge, which has failed to
recognise and validate the diversity of experience of over half of mankind. Ill18 p4 "Post-modern claims that to pursue
a total theory is mistaken and essentialist, given that to do so inevitably
means to generalise and universalise, have informed this feminist
theorising." Wow! The very idea that radfems do not generalise! The undermining of academic precepts, by
men like Feyerabend, pre-dates the radfems. Taking advantage of scientific treachery by F
and others, we now see a full-scale, largely successful, radfem
subversion of the probity of academia. The radfem
fixation on the penis recurs (/phallocentric). Radfems,
including lesbian radfems, think and talk about the
penis far, far more often than men do. - Ed Continued at www.ivorcatt.com/02a.htm [Ill Eagle 1999 issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/99.htm ] [Most past Ill Eagle issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/98.htm ] [Ill Eagle 2000 issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/00.htm ] [Ill Eagle 2001 issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/01.htm ] [Ill Eagle 2002 issues
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