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CAA 'Trapper' Stamps Maurice's Log Book - eBay Auster Sale STARTS

Maurice Kirk — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:15:00 GMT

After 2 hours of examination, on the ground and aloft, exhausted Maurice is handed back a much appreciated 'debrief' and a Renewal Stamp in his flying log book!

It was 31 years ago when Maurice last flew a PA 28 Cherokee 'spam can' on a similar GFT, General Flight Test, but that was at Oxford for his UK Commercial Licence.

This means the stranded yellow Cub in Texas, subject to CAA Head Office immediately lifting the suspension, can be flown on to the Amazon, Agentina and Falklands this autumn if kind President Bush grants Maurice a Visitor's Visa?

Kirstie is likely to find, in a few days, another little J3 L4 1943 D-Day Piper Cub tucked up in her stable (MY HANGAR) here at St Donats International Airport being hastily prepared for flight to Cape Town or will it be Mount Everest?

Meanwhile, in order to pay mounting bills, eBay receives Maurice's first of many aircraft, engines and 40 propellors to sell off!

Royal Prerogative takes my My Pilot's Licence

Maurice Kirk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:19:00 GMT

I have today received a Refusal by the Royal Courts of Justice to interfere with the CAA's decision to suspend my flying licences, months ago, just because the US Department of Homeland Security told the CAA I had landed on President Bush's front lawn and was ‘engaged in criminal activity' while both the FAA, local newspaper and McClellan County Sheriff say did not happen.

I enclose for my reader(s) an extract of the judgment to be appealed, the common theme, incidentally, relied on by not just by the RCVS, South Wales Police and Crown Prosecution Service but now the CAA.

Why? To deliberately withhold disclosure of favourable evidence because each HM department is immune to prosecution under the seriously out dated and outrageous contradiction in terms to to Basic Human Rights, namely ‘Her Majesty's Royal Prerogative'.

Extract of Royal Courts of Justice

Judgment 23^rd July 2008-07-26

Maurice Kirk v Civil Aviation Authority

‘Observations'

The wide ranging nature of article 27(1) (b) of the Air Navigation Order and of the discretion to suspend granted by Article 92(1) of the ANO is more than ample to confer jurisdiction the CAA to as it has done.

No error in law or other arguable basis for challenging the decision to suspend the applicant's private pilot's licence is disclosed by the application.

What About the South Wales Police?

Maurice Kirk — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:43:00 GMT

15 years ago I started a civil litgation action for harassment following conduct by the local police including jailing me on an almost weekly basis. To date they have lost 121 criminal charges and won 9. These they served on the RCVS in 2000, the police also giving them access to confidential files in both Cardiff and Barry police stations.

It is of particular interest for our family that it has taken the USA to cause the CAA to face proper 'disclosure', now implicating the South Wales Police, who are behind just why I was deported and earlier struck off the register for life as a veterinary surgeon.

The attached file is just an indication to the uninitiated of the lengths to which these faceless people will go just for vengence, all at the tax payers' expense.

I submit another ignored application for disclosure download here

CAA Erroneous Data

Maurice Kirk — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:52:00 GMT

I will be publishing on this blog the 'blow by blow' account of my fight to regain my flying licence and posting the 'heavy' documents such as correspondence, newspaper accounts and the evidence within the downloads section of the site (see the link on the main menu above).

It is my submission, today, that the CAA Licencing Department have been given significantly contradictory and erroneous information from the USA.

The FAA have confirmed, more than once, that I had committed no US aviation offence by landing in a field at Crawford, Texas and other US Authorities have knowingly engaged in nefarious conduct so as to have me re-arrested, a week later, purely on a pretext to have me deported. This is clearly indicated in the papers so far released to the CAA some of which, but not all, have been disclosed to me.

What is significantly disturbing in all this was being refused the right to a 'caution', the right to 'make a statement' and to have an independent medical examination throughout my three weeks in custody. My 10 days in solitary confinement without any access to telephone, to inform my family where I was, create or receive mail, use my $4000, have visitors, contact the British Embassy, have legal representation or independent medical examination at my expense, is fact. The deliberate policy of 'minimum audit trail' from the moment guns were pointed at my head leaves me in further difficulties with the CAA who may decide to act only on what they are given.

This fear is real, owing to the 'huge assumptions' revealed in the numerous, yet to be published, CAA memos by the Licencing Department, so far released to me when I know the Royal Courts of Justice will conduct their 'responsibilities', in my lodged Judicial Review Application, in a manner to which both I and many, many others have been so accustomed.

The US Department of Homeland Security, created post 9/11, blocked almost all media coverage in the US, refused to submit any documentary evidence to support their allegations for my removal from the US, now needed for the CAA and the Royal Courts of Justice, on the repetitive argument that -

"NO DHS detained British holiday-maker on a 'Waiver Visa' into USA is allowed access to legal redress as agreed by Her Majesty's UK Government."

Read the 12 page PDF under the download section of this site for more information - newspaper cuttings, CAA Memo, CAA letter to MJ Kirk, and US charge sheet, later withdrawn.

Off The Aeroplane Into The CAA

Maurice Kirk — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:28:00 GMT

On landing at London Airport on 16th May from Huston, Texas, under escort by US Homeland Security officials, I went straight to the Civil Aviation Authority to find out why they had suspended my flying licences. CAA information disclosed only that I had landed on a road outside Mr Bush's front door.

The Federal Aviation Authority telephoned me, whilst I was still in Texas. I was about to fly her away from the Secret Service at Crawford, miles from President Bush's ranch, where they had kindly been guarding the Cub until my return from Austin State Hospital. I flew her out unsupervised.

The FAA clearly stated I had committed no US aviation offence by landing the aircaft in the farmer's field. I asked for all documentation from the US authorities sent to the CAA, justifying their action to ground me. These 6 pages were faxed to me and attached to my Emergency Judicial Review Application lodged this last Friday 23rd May 2008, at the Royal Courts of Justice for their Lordships' deliberations.

Today, Tuesday the 27th May 2008, the CAA now say they have 30 odd more pages from the US - for publication on this site later.

Watch this space.

See Downloads for CAA and RCJ Documentation