The IFA Defence Union
From: The IFA Defence Union [enquiries©ifadu.co.uk]
Sent: 16 May 2005 09:01
To: Letters.EditorFT.com
Subject: Jury trials saved after U-turn on terror laws

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1614502,00.html

Dear Lord Falconer

I have a simple solution to your problem.

All you need do is allow the Government to include the suspected terrorists within the remit of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the rules made by the FSA allow the FOS to ignore the evidence, the law of the land and the Human Rights Act 1998.

Everything they need is ready to roll!

All this can be done under the protection afforded by the draconian Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (ESMA), a piece of illegal legislation that Gordon Brown declared compatible with the Human Rights Act 1998, just as he did with the Finance Bill, just as Blunkett did with detention of terrorists legislation. They lied to Parliament and that is a sackable offence is it not?

This Government was told by the Privy Council to sort out the rights of terror suspects, this was ignored, twelve months later the House of Lords confirmed the legislation was incompatible with human rights legislation but it took the EU Commission to prod these people into action, well they may be doing this once again with regard to the ESMA 2000 and I suspect that is why this bunch of megalomaniacs is being surprisingly cautious with regard to non—jury determinations of terror suspects’ right to freedom.

Evan Owen
The IFA Defence Union
www.ifadu.co.uk