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To: UK Supreme Court & The Attorney General

The International Bill of Human Rights.

To The Supreme Court and the Attorney General.

Both parties need to issue a joint 'formal interpretation' of the significance of the International Bill of Human Rights, which consists of a number of Treaty documents agreed with the United Nations. Because the UK Government(s) have been acting in violation of it for decades. Even the Supreme Court itself and its predecessor the House of Lords, has ignored or misinterpreted its significance too.

So they must admit their own guilt of failing to act on this, by ensuring that Parliament had respected these rights in all of its UK laws. And also explain how they propose to put this right for any citizens whose rights have already been violated by any acts of the judiciary and from which date they consider it came into effect. Bearing in mind the documented opinions of the UN's Human Rights Committees and Human Rights Council/(formerly Commission), addressed to the UK and/or all UN Member States.

Why is this important?

In the judgement by the Supreme Court on the 30th May 2012, in the Julian Assange extradition case, [2012] UKSC 22 {published as UKSC_2011_0264_ Judgement on their website} - Lord Phillips and others referred to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which was set out through the United Nations in 1969.

However, their comments seem to have been limited to Part III, Section 3 paragraphs. These only deal with the “Interpretation of Treaties”, whereas the two foregoing sections 1 & 2 dealt with the “Observance and Application of Treaties”.

Will the Court therefore confirm, or deny, the significance of these parts of the Vienna Convention? And also state in detail how any UK Laws, including the secondary legislation known as the Civil Procedures Rules, have ever fully complied with the States ‘legally binding obligations’ to respect and give effect in its domestic legislation to all International Human Rights Treaties, including The International Bill of Human Rights.

The latter includes within it, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stated in its Article 10, that - “Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.”.

Although, the wording was changed in Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to - “All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law.”.

The Civil Procedures Rules for England & Wales, since 1998 at least if not before, do not seem to have been compatible with either of these fundamental rights and principles.

Otherwise why would any Judge be allowed to issue any orders “without a hearing” or strike out any defences filed by any defendant, also without a guarantee of a ‘fair hearing’ beforehand?

Surely such ‘acts’ are a direct and clear violation of those rights and are, or should have been, prohibited by virtue of Article 30 of the Universal Declaration and Article 5 of the two International Covenants, which form the rest of the International Bill of Human Rights?

They must also therefore accept and admit that such acts, by any State bodies, are also a violation of Articles 26 and 27 of the Vienna Convention itself. Therefore logically the entire ‘English/UK legal process’, which can readily deny anyone in Civil Proceedings the absolute right to a ’fair and public hearing’ is flawed. Whereas it is everyone's inviolable and inalienable right, to have a full and equal hearing under all International Law.

They should also examine and confirm the compliance of such procedures throughout the whole of the UK with these absolute rights. Can the Supreme Court also provide statistics to back up any claims by it, that these assertions are unfounded, if that is their belief?

By stating how many Civil Court Judgements are issued by UK Courts, without a hearing year on year? If no such records exist, then how can they be sure that these basic rights have not been violated by the judiciary with impunity?

Moreover, how can the public be sure that they will get or have had a fair hearing, if a claim is, or has been made against them under such a fundamentally flawed and illegal process?

I would also refer them to UN General Comments No 13 from 1984 and No.32 from 2007 by the Human Rights Committee. The latter of which also stated that “Article 14 contains guarantees that States parties must respect, regardless of their legal traditions and their domestic law”, which must include Civil and/or Criminal Procedures or Rules in any part of the UK or its Overseas Territories.

This seems to tie in directly to Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, as the International Bill of Human Rights is undeniably such a Treaty. As, surely, are all other International Human Rights Instruments which have been issued by the United Nations and which the UK is party to and has ratified decades ago.

So the people of the United Kingdom need to know,what right does any Judge in any UK Court have to ignore those rights? Or to not be compelled to follow them to the letter in any ‘court of first instance’. It seems that they have, in fact, been doing so on a daily basis for decades now, in England and Wales at least, by using or abusing the Civil Procedure Rules of 1998.

How it will be delivered

Email them as I don't live in London, unless someone at 38 Degrees can volunteer to hand it in to the Supreme Court.

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2016-11-14 05:55:12 +0000

1,000 signatures reached

2014-10-29 11:44:19 +0000

If you feel that you need more proof about this then please read this article for some. Although the blog page is experiencing some sort of blockage at the moment. So I hope it will work again soon. www.bravemany.com/?p=532 or try to connect through their Twitter account at https://twitter.com/bravemany

2014-10-29 11:39:43 +0000

For some more background information on this topic, and links to other pages proving the Government has been lying about it for decades, please take the time to read this, if you feel you need to see more of those proofs. http://t.co/JigePf7PuS

2014-08-13 19:08:55 +0100

500 signatures reached

2014-08-04 19:56:41 +0100

Just over 2 weeks from today it will be the 38th Anniversary of the International Covenants mentioned above "entering into force for the United Kingdom" on the 20th august 1976. So if you can help boost the campaign and this one too http://goo.gl/rS4HKp

Then, maybe we can actually make a difference, by forcing all these parties into admitting that everything they've done, or failed to do by ignoring them, has been a violation of this International Law.

We've been told today to remember those who suffered in the first World War, by a Prime Minister who has ignored these International Laws even though he has been made aware of them since I discovered them myself in 2008. So why will he do nothing to respect the memory of the dead in both wars, who allegedly died for these Rights and Freedoms for us, their immediate descendants?

2014-06-26 14:03:03 +0100

I've kindly been provided with a short-cut to the Avaaz petition, mentioned below on this subject, today by a technical genius, compared to me https://twitter.com/Mickc1303 So here it is http://goo.gl/rS4HKp and it should be easier to tweet etc. #Goodnews.

2014-06-11 10:08:19 +0100

Made a mistake with the link below, which is in fact for the two International Covenants, which I also refer to in the petition. However here's the one for the Vienna Convention now. http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/fullnames/pdf/1980/TS0058%20(1980)%20CMND-7964%201969%2023%20MAY-30%20NOV%201969%201%20DEC%201970%2030%20APR,%20VIENNA-NEW%20YORK%3b%20VIENNA%20CONVENTION%20ON%20LAW%20OF%20TREATIES.pdf

2014-06-05 16:50:27 +0100

I've just discovered that The Foreign & Commonwealth Office now seems to have published The Vienna Convention on its website so here's the link to it, which will hopefully work http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/pdf/1977/TS0006.pdf so you can read it if you need to see it for yourself, before signing this. Thanks for your support and help in spreading the word asap.

2014-04-28 10:30:51 +0100

Here's more evidence that the UK is still ignoring this issue. I just went to their website at https://www.gov.uk/government/topics and simply entered the 'search term' "Human Rights" in the box which asks the question "What is the Government doing about ?". And the answer which came out was "No topics match that filter". But you won't find that document E/C.12/1994/19 21 December 1994 there either.

So it seems that whilst they still treat Human Rights as a 'Foreign issue'; and look for "the speck of wood in others eyes" they ignore the "log in their own", as Christians might recognize as the words of Jesus. Yet last weeks news was that the people of the UK still believe that this is a Christian State, because the Queen is 'Head of State & Church', and of course the Courts Judge in her name and using the Royal Motto "Dieu et Mon Droit", which translates as "God and My Right".

2014-04-28 10:01:00 +0100

Today I've noticed that the link below doesn't seem to be working at all. So please try this one for an alternative to the document referred to on the 29 March http://search.ohchr.org/search?q=cache:4YhzsXtPuygJ:docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx%3Fenc%3D4slQ6QSmlBEDzFEovLCuW%252BKyH%252BnXprasyMzd2e8mx4dWM1yJVrR%252FiXiQDZTsUmeU1ykGBCclSxnT7lpNRUHw%252BsNv0WhRiGF9554WDCmU1A3n%252BGD83Hns1rbepGB3U4c2+E/C.12/1994/19+21+December+1994&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=en_frontend&site=default_collection&access=p&oe=UTF-8 and click on the box at the top of the page for a PDF version of it.

Alternatively go to www.ohchr.org and 'Search' for "E/C.12/1994/19 21 December 1994" to find it. Don't know what went wrong with the last one.

2014-03-29 20:33:20 +0000

Tonight (29/03/2014) I discovered this document published by the UN in 1994 http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/13c09e245cae8a47c12563e8004995bf?Opendocument.

You should note what they said in paragraph 8, and especially these words "Similarly, judges and other members of the legal profession have not given sufficient consideration to the importance of this Covenant within domestic law". But paragraph 14 is also relevant too.

This has been the State's attitude since 1945, when the UK became founding members of the UN, never mind 1976 when these two Covenants became "legally binding" on it.

So what more evidence do you need to see, to prove that UK Domestic Laws and Administrative Procedures, have not been compatible with Human Rights, and never will be unless you support this campaign?

Please vote for it now, if you haven't already done so and be sure to spread the word to everyone you know, in the UK.

2014-03-09 19:47:06 +0000

I appreciate the increase in the number of signatures lately, but I notice that most people seem to be missing the link below to the new one on the Avaaz.org website, which is intended for everyone to sign too.

Maybe if we don't, or can't get an answer form our own Government, then the UN will confirm the validity of everything which I've read off their website.

After all, they claim to be the true source of Human Rights since the Second World War ended in 1945. Yet we still seem to be living in world where money buys you 'rights'. And if you're not a multi-millionaire then you've got no chance of getting a decision out of the Supreme Court either.

Because you just can't afford their fees. Nor would you be told how to fill in their forms to 'satisfy' their bureaucratic procedures, which have no doubt been in place since the 12th Century too.

So 'thanks for all the signatures' but please don't forget the rest of the world, whilst we're at it.

2014-01-21 15:21:01 +0000

Considering that all human rights are supposedly universal, then this issue should also be universal throughout the world. But as any admission from the United Kingdom (should one arise as a result of this campaign), wouldn't make a difference to the rest of the world, today I started another petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/General_Assembly_of_The_United_Nations_Confirm_the_relevance_of_The_International_Bill_of_Human_Rights_to_all - which I would ask anyone seeing this one to also sign, and spread amongst your friends and family etc.

As this new one is addressed to The United Nations itself, then if I am right about this campaign for the UK, then hopefully the UN will have to answer it too for all of the world. The future needs to be in our hands, not theirs.

2014-01-21 00:17:37 +0000

100 signatures reached

2013-12-07 12:07:34 +0000

The death of Nelson Mandela 2 days ago, should remind us all of the need to fight for our rights, no matter how long it takes, and whatever the State chooses to do, to punish those who disagree with their 'illegal systems' until they give in and admit they're wrong. See the UN tribute at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx

It's also just another 3 days from the 65th Anniversary of the date when the General Assembly sat down in Paris to agree the final wording of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which they 'proclaimed' as The International Bill of Human Rights.

So we need to ask our politicians to explain how long they expect to get away with ignoring the principles set down in The Declaration itself. You can do that by spreading the word about this petition.