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'Who cannot be named"
PedanticBarSteward Started conversation Dec 5, 2008
Why - if you are convicted of breaking a child's back and killing it, or accused of raping a nine year old girl can you 'not be named - yet you can be splashed all over the press for having an affair or chaining your unrequited-would-be-lover to the bed post.
What are the 'for legal reasons'?
'Who cannot be named"
PedanticBarSteward Posted Dec 5, 2008
Maybe I have been away from Ol Blighty for too long, but when I see the Speaker of the House (who does NOT furnish his house from eye-key-yer) blustering about 'rights' only a few days after two 'gentlemen' were incarcerated 'at Her Majesty's Pleasure' for systematically curtailing the careers of some very well paid local authority officials by systematically beating to death a baby - AND - one of them 'cannot be named'......
Is it because he's (maybe) related to somebody that might be embarrassed?
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Dec 5, 2008
It's too late now, I don't get who did what. 
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retiringviolet Posted Dec 6, 2008
It's just all this rubbishy political correctness! You're not aloud to criticize anybody, under any circumstance. Don't you dare say Hitler was a git, or Idi amin was a complete bastard. Someone will tell you you're infringing human rights.
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Jabberwock Posted Dec 7, 2008
Hold on - before you get too excited, people often cannot be named before their trial or possible trial in this country, because naming them in relation to the affair could prejudice a jury against them, and so there cannot be a free trial - therefore no trial at all, and they get off scot free.
Jab
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retiringviolet Posted Dec 7, 2008
Oh,- Jab,- you are a complete delight! and a mine of information. In fact, a delightful mine.
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PedanticBarSteward Posted Dec 7, 2008
Yes Jab - but - I have never been able to see why naming one person might affect the outcome of the trail but not another (for a similar offence). I would understand if it were universal but it's not.
Unless it is because the unnamed person is a known, convicted, fellon and has been already convicted of one or more similar offenses, which have been recently splashed all over the press. For some strange reasons jurors are only told about previous convictions after they have given their verdict (in ALL cases).
However, in the recent case, they 'convicted' murderers 'cannot be named'? Why?
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Jabberwock Posted Dec 7, 2008
Wouldn't know about individual cases, Pedantic, but of course there are other reasons why someone's name cannot be made public. I gave by far the most common reason.
Jab
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retiringviolet Posted Dec 24, 2008
Happy Xmas, our fussy barman of foreign climes.
Vi
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PedanticBarSteward Posted Dec 24, 2008
I'm not in the least bit 'fussy' - but - thank you - and I hope that your Christmas is good.
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'Who cannot be named"
- 1: PedanticBarSteward (Dec 5, 2008)
- 2: aka Bel - A87832164 (Dec 5, 2008)
- 3: PedanticBarSteward (Dec 5, 2008)
- 4: aka Bel - A87832164 (Dec 5, 2008)
- 5: retiringviolet (Dec 6, 2008)
- 6: Jabberwock (Dec 7, 2008)
- 7: retiringviolet (Dec 7, 2008)
- 8: PedanticBarSteward (Dec 7, 2008)
- 9: Jabberwock (Dec 7, 2008)
- 10: retiringviolet (Dec 24, 2008)
- 11: PedanticBarSteward (Dec 24, 2008)
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