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Maurice Kirk — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:40:00 GMT

Maurice's new mobile 07708586202

Jersey/Bristol interviews, re state of Welsh prisons, on https://www.facebook.com/

NEW WEBSITE SHORTLY as cannot add any more data on this one or she 'falls over' !!¬!!

Out of Pays des Galles and I am immediately 10 years younger ......seen doctor , blood tests and physical triage etc.....still need the medicine but bound for Pontivy hospital again, I suspect.......last time in Jan 2013 with Gendarmes after Welsh police tried to get them to section me just be3fore the civil trial. I arrived to be recognised by nurse who was there for my hip replacement ....’beaucoup des blagues’ et sujets de rire! The men in blue were very annoyed for failing to get me sectioned for Cardiff and Barry police.

I rang the Criminal Cases Review Commission just to bring me back into the real world. How I contained my temper I will never know

Having gathered, over 6 years, the documentary proof (court transcripts, court file, affidavits etc) of wide spread corruption in Cardiff’s courts on machine gun/police fabricated psychiatric fraud alone.

CCRC answered and after much shuffling on phones put onto a Ms Jenny Thomas.

To cut it short .....oh yes, the CCRC had Michael Williams' court contemporaneous notes alright.

All record of that chaotic Sept/Dec 2011 Cardiff magistrates ‘harassment trial’ scandal followed with my re arrest re MUSA Nigerian case.

https://mauricejohnkirk.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/solicitor-makes-false-allegations-so-that-judge-imprisons-maurice/

But Jenny said I was not going to get the public records because they were ‘not helpful’....The jury asked for the clerk’s notes

the Cardiff Crown Court told me nothiung about. I was not in court but was it Judge Paul Thomas (Jenny’s Uncle?) the one who knew the police had changed the machine gun colur to fool the jury?

Jury notes not available 'not available” the May12 trial judge told them so how come the Crown Prosecution Service admits, in three different court proceedings, in having them?

How come Lord Leveson et al, on 14^th March 2013, said there was 'no evidence' the jury had ever asked to see the clerk’s notes clearly accentuated by my gaoler’s cross examination that the service of the restraining order was ‘served’ but promised to be clealy recorded in Michael Williams' notes in the clandestine meet in the 1st Dec 11 magistrates' court cells?

Para 9

There is a complaint also of the jury requested sight of the original custody notes and court log relating to the proceedings in the magistrates court but that the judge refused this request. However, so far as we can see from the transcript of the proceedings there is no trace of anything of that nature having been requested by the jury.

Para 13 For these reasons, we refuse permission to bring this appeal.

His Honour Judge Seys Llewellyn QC’s e-mail sparked a court clerk reply that there are 'no hand written drafts' of the now notorious 'restraining order’ in the court file. But my arresting the Crown prosecutor, David Gareth Evans, caused evidence to contradict his own CPS!

The Bristol CPS even went out of there way and visited Cardiff court and extracted from the file that CCRC had acquired the 'court file' in Feb 13, before the latest jury trial conviction but all had kept 'mum'. Only after it was re –written, now proved, following my 'illegal court access', CCRC consider, under disguise a year earlier.

Jenny Thomas was quick to highlight that incident but reluctant to admit that not just the court log has been now proved as forged but now numerous versions of District Judge John Charles' hand written other notes and drafts in the public court file!

Evilness personified and a bunch of liars only concerned with 'jobs worth', the worrying trend to be reflected in forth coming elections. If they get away with it someone near you will be their next victim.

So which version of the 'hymn sheet' did their Lordships, Leveson, Smelling and Males sing from now, this very week, the CCRC confirm His Honour Judge Seys Llewellyn QC, Bristol CPS, Cardiff CPS and myself all appear to have different forgeries?

HM Privy Council receives Reasons for French Asylum incl. Threat to Kill by South Wales Police

SabineKMcNeill — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:07:00 GMT

Asylum Application by British Subject to France's Authorities, 10^th Dec 1020

Please sign our ON LINE PETITION HERE

THREAT TO KILL On 22^nd June 2009, Maurice John Kirk was arrested by armed police unit, using a helicopter in St Donats, Vale of Glamorgan. The leaked memos here of 8^th June 2009 MAPPA (Multi Agent Public protection Arrangements) meeting and now the release of an ‘Executive Summary', obtained by 30^th November 2010 County Court Order [CF101741 + two others], reveal there was a South Wales Police policy that Mr Kirk was likely to be shot, should he attempt 'mutual exchange of documents', of witness statements, in his eighteen year running civil action, against the South Wales Police Chief Constable, Barbara Wilding, for malicious prosecutions, false imprisonments and failure to investigate crime against himself, his veterinary business and his family.

FALSIFIED PSYCHIATRIC REPORT Mr Kirk was jailed on a fabricated allegation that he was ‘in possession and trading in machine guns with live ammunition'. Falsified psychiatric reports were used to first section him under Section 35 of the 1983 Mental Health Act, without even an examination. Once inside South Wales Police's forensic psychiatric prison, Caswell Clinic, Bridgend, HM Partnership set about the task of obtaining two required signatures, of level 12 forensic psychiatrists, for a Section 41 or similar, to imprison him for life. This was necessary to avoid the machine gun trial and the pending civil action, requiring the cross examination of well over one hundred witnesses, mainly either serving or retired policemen.

FALSIFIED MEDICAL RECORDS BEFORE CROWN COURT Unable to find a second doctor's signature, no less than ten judges refused Mr Kirk bail, despite contradictory evidence, on oath, by HM Crown Prosecutors. Both Professor Roger Wood and Dr Tegwyn Williams tendered evidence before a Cardiff Crown Court, on the 2^nd December 2009, with the official tape recorder switched off and HM Court Service instructed not to release the official court log of the proceedings. All this was in the absence of Maurice Kirk, not legally represented, as he was locked up in the cells beneath his own court.

FALSIFIED MAPPA LEVEL 3 TO VEXATIOUS LITIGANT ATTEMPTS Failure to get Mr Kirk transferred to Ashworth High Security Psychiatric Prison, for Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), by CPS barrister Richard Twomlow, another MAPPA meeting was convened for the 17^th December, at the Caswell Clinic, to cancel his MAPPA level 3, terrorist level. Instead the Welsh Authorities pursued all that was left, to stop the civil trial beginning, i.e. the registration of Maurice Kirk as a ‘Vexatious Litigant'. Here is the document that combines their text with Maurice's comments. And here's Maurice's MAPPA summary.

POLICE CONFIDENTIAL FILES DISCLOSED TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS In 2001 the South Wales Police revealed, following their complaint, confidential but erroneous Police National Computer files, contrary to Home Office regulations, to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. College lawyers have refused, ever since, even to the Information Commissioner for FOI and Data Protection Acts, dependant on 1967 Royal Charter immunity, to disclose contemporaneous notes of their enquiries that led to his name being removed from the veterinary register.

Pressure from Welsh Assembly and Parliamentary members had supported his being stuck off on false information, again without his knowledge, reliant primarily from a Felicity Norton. This led to the HM Attorney General to eventually intervene with a clandestine investigation as to whether Mr Kirk could be blocked, once and for all from UK courts, as a ‘Vexatious Litigant'.

LEAKED HM TREASURY SOLICITOR INTERNAL MEMOS These and Cardiff County Court internal memos reveal here there had been attempts, without court approval, to hinder all Mr Kirk's civil actions, as far back as 2003, by the HM area managers, first sending some hundred or so of his court files to a team of HM lawyers in Whitehall, only to lose some, implicating, it now turns out, RCVS lawyers who had obtained, in the interim, Extended Civil Restraint Orders ( ECROs) to restrict Mr Kirk's applications for that disclosure

HM COURTS REFUSE RIGHT OF AUDIENCE OF LITIGANT IN PERSON The current tactic, by HM Partnership, meantime, without the legislation to support, is to block Mr Kirk from obtaining access to courts for ‘right of audience', as a litigant in person.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have repeatedly refused to allow his application, to have his name restored to the register, to go before a court of law for fear it will lead to the college lawyers having to disclose the contemporaneous evidence that was deliberately withheld along with vital witnesses, including his own clients, by using a Legal Assessor, not fit for purpose, as he was visibly too ill and clearly not competent.
The 2002 case and numerous Royal Courts of Justice Judicial Review hearings since, all avoiding that issue, is currently now before Their Lordships, this week, as the Registrar of the Judicial Committee of the HM Privy Council, is also refusing to put Mr Kirk's Humble Petition before a court of law despite their Lordships' ‘hope', stated at the 2004 Appeal in Downing Street, that he would be re instated, to practise, in less than a year!
British subject, Ms K Reid, of the Court of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Strasbourg, wrote stating the court would ‘no longer entertain' any further complaint from Mr Kirk relating to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. This, alone, indicates the full meaning of the 1967 Royal Charter being contrary to the 1998 Human Rights Act and the real document, that counts, signed 10^th December 1948.
The Recorder of Cardiff, HHJ Cooke QC, in June 2010, refused to investigate the complaint that medical evidence had been falsified before the 2^nd December 2009 Cardiff Crown Court judge, HHJ Bidder QC, the proposed trial judge relating to the machine gun and jailed Mr Kirk instead, for one month, for ‘Contempt of Court'. This currently on appeal to the Criminal Court of Appeal without Cardiff the court logs, as they are still being withheld.
Cardiff Magistrates, on the 2^nd November 2010, issued a warrant of arrest on Mr Kirk following a conviction in his absence for ‘common assault' on an ex police inspector, Derrick Hassan, as an HM Cardiff Crown Court official, when repeatedly refusing, from various people, to lodge Maurice Kirk's appeal document with the Criminal Court of Appeal. Mr Kirk was violently pushed down the stairs on both his crutches leading medical complications and admission to hospital.
Cardiff Magistrates already had medical reports from his orthopaedic surgeons, psychiatrists, specialists in morphine sulphate use and abuse, his current medication and one from a consultant radiologist, all indicating Mr Kirk was not fit to stand trial but urgently, instead, needing a total hip replacement.

HM JUDGES, NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL AND HM CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE REFUSE TO OBTAIN MEDICAL EVIDENCE CAUSING DELAY IN TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT OPERATION

South Wales' National Health Service, HM Crown Prosecution Service nor Nicholas Cooke QC, The Recorder of Cardiff, will cause release of the medical evidence, for the needed operation, because the 2^nd December 09 court was told that Mr Kirk had ‘significant brain damage and a possible brain tumour' causing it to be unsafe for him to ever be released from prison back into society.

HM Crown Prosecution was asking for Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) which carried a prison sentence, without trial, of an indeterminate length.

Maurice J Kirk BVsc

Puits aux Papillons, St Doha, 22230 Merdrignac, Brittany, France

maurice@kirkflyingvet.com Tel 003329 628 4741 Mobile 0790 793 7953

Maurice is not alone: Violence by Police, 'poor' service by the CPS and SECTIONING

SabineKMcNeill — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:35:00 GMT

This BBC news article illustrates the unjustified brutality that South Wales Police got up to in the case of an innocent musician, his partner and child.

The officer who handcuffed Victor Frederick did not come forward and could not be identified...

Here's a story on WalesOnline that reports on an assessment carried out in April. Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate deemed the body's overall performance as 'poor'.

This covers in performance in pre-charge advice and decision making, preparation and progression in magistrates’ court cases, custody time limits and disclosure was poor. "Disclosure" has become one of Maurice's 'hobby horses'...

And this is the extra-ordinary story of Neil Jones who had details on the Jill Dando murder to offer. After five different charges, he was not only imprisoned, but also 'interviewed' to be sectioned..

Re-Kindling the Fire to get Restored as Practising Veterinary Surgeon

SabineKMcNeill — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:46:00 GMT

Thirty-five paragraphs on 21 pages in January 2004 were the pro's and con's of whether Maurice

is fit or unfit to practise as a veterinary surgeon
can be considered to practise as a member of the profession
"continued conflict with authority must inevitably affect not only yourself, but also your profession by bringing it into disrepute".

What Maurice is up against in his repeated attempts to get re-instated as a vet are various levels or 'firewalls' of institutional behaviour:

the Royal Charter that was granted in 1967 - the ticket to immunity from prosecution for any wrong-doing
the collusion between lawyers who make money between each other by operating an adversarial system rather than seeking justice on behalf of a client
rules and regulations that are being ignored rather than adhered to, e.g. note this annex to his appeal and the Privy Council decision 'not to have jurisdiction'
general attitudes and assumptions such as Suzon Forscey-Moore RIP has pointed out:

those in power can do no wrong
white collar crime, with very rare exceptions, goes untried and unpunished in English law
money decides legal matters.

Ironically, it was Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England who attacked the commercial legal system: the adversarial system for settling civil legal disputes was in reality ‘a profitable monopoly of lawyers’ and called for the Government to take steps to reform the law.

This quote was among the documents from Suzon Forscey-Moore. Here's what Charles Wehner wrote about her:

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All who love freedom must shed a precious tear.

We have lost Suzon Forscey-Moore, a glorious fighter for justice.

She had a masters degree in law, but was not a lawyer. She campaigned for HONEST LAW.

She is gone.

The world is darker now.

RIP

Charles Douglas Wehner

Long term reflections from Asylum in Brittany

SabineKMcNeill — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:41:00 GMT

Obviously, an application for asylum has got to be done in French.

But in case you want to know what it means, here's the English text of the request sent.

It's actually quite simple: you just supply some proof of being persecuted and we think that this website does the job.

The terrible loss of Suzon Forscey-Moore whose funeral Maurice could not attend this week, for fear of arrest and jail before reaching Cambridge, was a timely reminder as to what may ly behind the current 'ratcheting up' of police oppression in South Wales.

Suzon was approached by Maurice, many years ago, for her interpretation of the apparent anomilies in the 1844 RCVS Charter and its subsequent replacements. Maurice believes the latest version is clearly in breach of the 1998 Human Rights Act and contrary to current European legislation. Suzon wrote this marvellous legal document as a 'Friend of the Court'.

'In house' lawyers for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons should have made it clear, very clearto Maurice, that at the commencement of legal proceedings against a member of the veterinary profession, in 2002, the 1967 Royal Charter granted the College and its agents, 'out house' lawyers, (literally), full immunity to either civil or criminal prosecution in any UK court proceedings.

Likewise, the South Wales Police, the complainant giving evidence on oath at the RCVS court, were also granted immunity, when giving false evidence, by The Memorandum of Understanding between The Association of Police Constables and the Law Society.

Her Majesty's Judicial Committee has done EXACTLY what the College has done each year, since 2006 by refusing for a court to convene. The clerk in the Supreme Court building, Parliament Square, just as with the RCVS single member of their 'in house' jury, has refused Maurice's June 2010 (see photo gallery) application to their Lordships to intervene, Maurice dependant on the terms laid down in the 1966 Veterinary Surgeons Act.

Why, you may ask, are the RCVS so desperate not to allow Maurice ever to practice veterinary surgery again?

Maurice took the precautionary step, to see what support he had within his father's and wife's profession, by standing for election to college council, just before Their Lordship's dismissed his appeal.

Should Maurice be re-instated, both camps of lawyers believe there is a very real risk of him being voted on to Council which will give him automatic access, at last, to the contemporaneous record of the years of expensive enquiry made by both College staff and Penningtons, solicitors of Gutter Street London.

The Information Commissioner's Office, ICO, has flatly refused to reveal the College's excuse for withholding the information gathered for the trial, asked for under Article 6, ECHR, before 2002 proceedings before his HM Privy Council 2004 Appeal, in Downing Street and each year since, in his Royal Courts of Justice Judicial Review applications.

Asylum details will follow shortly. Meanwhile, he has appealed the clerk's refusal.to place the grievance in open court.

NEWSFLASH: Warrant for Arrest by Cardiff Police means Political Asylum in Brittany

SabineKMcNeill — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:53:00 GMT

Maurice has just received a phone call from Cardiff police tel 02920527330: there is a WARRANT for ARREST out for him - the result of a court case that went ahead with a hearing, even though Maurice had asked for it to be adjourned and heard outside the Cardiff HM Court Service area.

Cardiff Magistrates Court requested yet another medical report, even though two other courts have accepted his current medical condition. Unfortunately, the doctor's secretary forgot the attachment in her email, so the document reached the Court only by mid-day.

Maurice is now applying for political asylum in Brittany, to obtain physical protection from a continuation of 18 years of violence by police oppression. The violence includes numerous crimes that were not investigated, against him, his family and his veterinary practice, besides brutal manhandlings, imprisonments and a long stay in a South Wales psychiatric clinic, as they were attempting to obtain a life imprisonment, without trial, by falsifying medical records.

Maurice has obtained information to commence applications,for asylum, from both a very helpful Gendarmerie and the Mayor's office in Merdrignac but unable to obtain his essential morphine sulphate medication without returning to the UK, The doctor there requests all his medical records to prescibe a restricted analgesic. The medical records continue to be withheld by the Cardiff Crown Prosecution Service and National Health Service for fear of incriminating themselves.

Cardiff Crown Court have failed to disclose relevant logs and transcripts, compounding the "conspiracy" and now allowing the medical records to be buried. The court log, as the one Maurice has just put up on the photo Gallery, relates to the video. Lawyers are running up costs whether he is able to show up or not.

The Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council wrote to Maurice, today. Would his long awaited Application against the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, to be heard very shortly, have anything to do with all this coinciding with the CPS refusing to disclose unused material, to the court that would undermine their case? Incidentally with the sad loss and the funeral this week of Suzon Forscey Moore: she was the one who kindly put together a legal submission on the merits of the 1966 Royal Charter, under which the RCVS conduct their disciplinary proceedings, being contrary to the 1998 Human Rights Act.

When the "s..t" hits the fan, the ''m...e" will come from Merdrignac!

Maurice's Action for Civil Damages from a High Level Perspective

SabineKMcNeill — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:31:00 GMT

A friendly 'onlooker' has been so concerned about Maurice's (the Claimant) health deteriorating, while nobody seems to care, except for the Defendant's lawyers running up their costs well above £800,000, that he wrote this 'legal framework' for considering the case as a whole.

In essence, "On the Ethics, Philosophy and Politics of Maurice Kirk v South Wales Police" makes the following points:

human rights law needs to be considered: Article 6 of the EU Convention on Human Rights - the right to a fair trial
Oppression by police can be better explained now
South Wales Police seek to avoid Fair, Proportionate & Proper Administration of Justice
Human Rights & Proportionality in a democratic society
Explanation of 'unusual', 'extreme' and 'indefinite'
Remedy and the Defendant's lawyers' attempts to erode democracy.

£1000 Reward for Prosecution of Adam Baker, Barry & Christian Harrison, Cardiff

Maurice Kirk — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:45:00 GMT

A further £500 for their conviction for £1,500 theft from my surgery ,,,,just where do they live?

Asking for Help, by appealing to Cyberspace

SabineKMcNeill — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:59:00 GMT

This is to ask visitors to this blog to send an email to hearings@cardiff.countycourt.gsi.gov.uk and, by taking Maurice's comment in, with Cc to Cardiff.crn.cm2@hmcourts-service.gsi.gov.uk

referring to Case CF101741
asking the Clerk to the Court to arrange for the RELEASE of Maurice Kirk's MEDICAL RECORDS to him - on humanitarian or other grounds of sympathy and empathy you feel are right
so that Maurice can get his hip replaced and get off morphine and other pain killers.

You may want to Cc maurice@kirkflyingvet.com to let him know of your support.

Maurice's hip replacement was scheduled for July 22nd, but surgeons said they cannot operate without access to previous records. Why this enormous and indefinite delay???

Maurice is sooo used to fighting on his own that he was reluctant to agree. At the same time, he is aware that 3rd parties can make a difference. And he knows that "they" are so terrified of media attention that he had to be categorised MAPPA level 3 (terrorist) - with the aim of locking him away for good: Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) in a high security prison (Broadmoor).

I have studied what McKenzie Friends ('lay legal assistants') can and can't do. But we need "McKenzie Angels" for moral and e-support now.

Will you help let Maurice fly again???

Why Maurice is in Court since Sept. 7

SabineKMcNeill — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:27:00 GMT

Summary of Trial Kirk v South Wales Police

Maurice suffered countless time consuming and expensive incidents instigated by the police, in the early 90s, until, in 2002, when police complaint achieved his name being removed from the veterinary register. Very little harassment has taken place since that date, until the current 10 week trial date was fixed in early 2009 when 'all hell let loose'.

Maurice lays claim that his high rate of success, approximately 90%, in the criminal courts and apparent unheeded complaints, for the police to investigate properly an excessive number of crimes committed against him, his family and his veterinary practice, during that same period, are all down to police 'special treatment' reliant on 'targeted malice' and numerous 'false imprisonments' all condoned by the most senior of police officers, in his locality, the Vale of Glamorgan.

Maurice has now started the trial with substantial unequivocal evidence, before the Cardiff County Court, for appropriate damages, but with the outstanding problems from the scandalous 'machine gun trial', earlier this year and years of MAPPA covert police surveillance and falsified medical evidence before ten Crown Court judges who opposed his bail. Police failure in stopping that criminal trial means, there is now a vast quantity of 'failed disclosure' of evidence remaining under the control of the current Chief Constable.

Maurice has been deemed 'medically unfit' by his local GP and several England based doctors, accepted by the court, to proceed with the trial, to no fault of his own because 'authority' continues to refuse to 'put its hand up' over falsified medical evidence, tendered by the police and Crown Prosecution Service, at the 2nd December 09 Crown Court hearing, in their last ditch attempt to send Maurice to a High Security Psychiatric Prison, IPP, 'Imprisonment for Public Protection'. Or should it have read 'Police Protection'?

But Maurice was to continue attending the 9th Day of the trial, on Wednesday, 22nd September 2010, whilst on Morphine Sulphate and numerous other medication, due to the delayed 'total hip replacement' operation, urgently needed, as he has been warned the case will continue without him.

Rough Notes from 20th September 2010 Trial on 'Law'

(from Maurice's son during his absence)

Police QC, "misfeasance in a public office is a path Mr Kirk could/should have pursued"

Strasbourg case law - osman

"deliberate failure & wilful neglect"

Birmingham 6 - you must be joking. Using one of UK's most famous micscarriages of justice as an argument to wilfully repeat it, I'm sorry is that even an argument? It was even quite extraordinary to hear the Police QC actually call the men "murderers" in court in 2010, when they were cleared 19 years earlier. He continually referred to the now discredited proceedings of 1981, in front of Lord/Judge Diploc (he of such fame in Ulster), citing how these were paragons of good process to which this judge should emulate now. I thought it was bad enough when he kept citing Lord Bingham, whilst in the same breath stating how his opinion was the minority one, the one to which he was overruled/out voted by his Lawlord peers, but this is in a different league..

Police QC "Our argument is Mr Kirk has no case because when 6 men were tortured into confessing to a crime they didn't commit 30 yrs ago, it was all good practice for their trial judge to disregard these claims and declare the confessions sound evidence, in the spirit of administering a coherent system of justice and protecting it from potential disrepute being the dominant imperative." [Josef Stalin could construct a better argument than that].

So after all the nonsense of many hours monotone diatribe spread over 2 weeks the judge only had one question.

Trial Judge, "But are there no indications as to what might constitute a truly exceptional case?"

to which the Police QC responds " No Your Honour"

which begs the question (or what we hope the judge is thinking)..... then why did you impose this lengthy, irrelevant onslaught of verbal diarrhoea upon us all, if none of it addresses the central tenet of contention as highlighted by a single utterence form the Judge. Who pays for all that wasted time?

Not sure what all the nonsense about the US Federal Tax Commisison case was about, kinda wrong jurisdiction. Jim listened to that, I was dozing.

Caspar