LAWYERS EWS WOMAN JP IN BIAS ROW SAYS 1 WON'T WITHDRAW' Sc NO No mure firunwick cases for magistrate Willesden & Beent Chronicle A WOMAN JP IN TARIQ © BUGGING "BUGGED' THE MAGISTRATE WILLESDEN Grubwick pickets, or'order'.
'Stiffer armed Socialier Challenge wIn about almost beterminated.
ISSUES who was expecied to hear the charges against thes hold such viewsabout them PARDON local pree picked up the any story at the end of last week, fusther sridence came medient evidence on behalf forward of Oakley's views.
Martin Wyatt, secretary of Brenl Voluntary Services was absolutely aghast at her husband, George, the Whar Me Oakiey said in the farmerRura! Dean of Brent, consersation held ourside had droppod in for tea at the timon solicitors creased by mediately seemed la me quite marting presenee of three witneises, courthouse first thing last offensive things, and asked for defence Thursday morning. Lined up in the barrow corridor were the bench.
including me, waiting with our witnesses.
The cops were there in force, AMAZED trying to maintain a semblance I warched as Willesden police court (sic) got ready to hand out injustice. In number two court, lawyers, Sulter sentences a Bety Sentences' Oakley. was to be her tirst Grunwick victim hat morning. Burnow•BUT copies all that of being magistrate, TICI unbroken record of LOUL CUE ILLIONS WES SODEL LU withdrawing Which happened.
I'd handed my defence immediately rushed up to court precedents for tbat kind of two thing. He started in court by moval from Grunwick cases and compensation farallthe the Bar Council, and Willesden magistrates Two dase before Oakley's removal, pacifist militant DEFEND Grunwick pickets should Pat Arrowsmith was up F.00 Be DonCE Qn 30 obstruction chargefor sitting in the path of the scab bus.
Hetore sentencing her, the magistrates absent mindedly When the national and Jorgot to ask Pat if she had consider appropriate, and as short, was up to is usual swyerstodeterminethis tricks, REMOVAL Thompson, the trade Strike.
If end of Seprember, In the Apexie act for the majority Granwick, Magistrates meditated bias against Oakley. prosecuting counsel had hought court was looking more like the ln the diplomatic language of acopyof thepaper and throwna Grunwick picket line than a lawyers be said some lairly fit in the wasting room Oakley's removal from the Grunwickcasewe'd interrupted wils Everyone in the courtroom was riveted. In the hackermind there wasthetinkling of coins as - worried court ol ials, militants and police oflic ers queued up to buy copses of Socialist Challenge.
But the defendant, Oakley. Meanwhile, back in court four also presiding where against her, smiled a hittle, and obscruction, She sume ceded am not stes o we feed plus 20 biased and 1 have no political wasnt quite what My case was fiscsflying counsela copy of the paper, and four, which amazed everyone in lightly. It was a big das fo he'd gone off in a huddle with there because the bearing was them. The Willesden treatment the other lawyers because it alrendy half way through and which they'd experienood for seemed there weren't many they had to transfer to court years, had at last met its firs By now news of the affidavit the kind of word they used reading our the charges of pre- had spread like wildfire. One about the doctor's disclosures those thar Paul Stern had of all Grunwick cases from to confront and beat up the the Pilesoon coul. A lelle masspickeis.
Darothy Oakley's re protesting at the failure of Willesden Justicetoappcarto is a small step forward, he impartial has heen signed Socialist Challenge has by barristers involved in the already called for a pardon Grunwickcases, endorsedby is pickets convicted by ibe presently in the hands of the Lord Chancellor.
But this shauld nor be left talawyers, Aboveall, Its loc the defendants themselves te decide the response that thes plea to make in soon as possible hey should mitigation. Willesden, in meet togeher with beir fore sistem and for alf orse The Oakley affair reveals sery plainly why Gounge Ward NAFE champion the rule of law as the way of resciving the permined Instead of im• nationalising the Labour of arrested pickers, is now Government has sanctioned localcommunizy.
counsel from Lte #bout to do a repcat performance of my barrister's plea when che magiscrates in court two, including Oakley marched our neid a mectne and returned after lunch DISRUPTION That was it. Exeunt one real Just dopensi was charged with beard the case threatening behaviour and justice was back not coss on the second charge, in spite of having three witnesses TULATET ridiculous accusation that 1'd kamikazed my way through the police lines.
The Jawyers said I'd got off disruption. 'Magnificant" was Of course, any govern ment representing the interests of workers would Immediately Lift all the charges against the pickets. However. socialists mus also challenge the existing system of justice and campaign for full democratic rights. Such demands in relation to che judiciary shouldinclude Abolition of the magist.
to berned hyafuljury:
Abolition of majority verdicts! Outpo unanimous urp verdict should 5r Electiongfall judgeshwhe