From: Norman Scarth (born 1925): For
lifelong record, & current address, see end.
To: Mr. Adrian Turner, Joint Executive Secretary, Professional Conduct & Complaints Committee,
THE GENERAL COUNCIL
OF THE BAR,
Northumberland House, 303/306,
High Holborn, LONDON WC1V 7JZ
Wednesday 26th March 2003
Tel: 020 7440 4000. Fax: 020 7 7440 4000 www.barcouncil.org.uk
1)
I acknowledge receipt of the bundle of documents accompanying your letter of 11 March 2003. I started to read through Mark Barlow’s letter of 10 March 2003.
Asking a group of lawyers to condemn one of their own, perhaps it is unwise of me () to remind you that lawyers are noted for being ‘economical with the
truth’, the phrase infamously coined by Attorney General Sir Robert Armstrong to excuse his own lying.
2)
However, Barlow’s letter is a different league altogether.
His hubris caused him to introduce the complete irrelevancy of a ‘historic ‘ case he was involved in. So blatant is his ‘economy’, his arrogance & his contempt for me,
the letter had me reeling with shock, & I was not able to read further. Even
now, I have still not been able to bring myself to do more than skim through the remainder of the documents. However, reading Mr. Barlow’s letter again, I have been able to identify two points that scream out
for clarification.
3)
In his letter to me of 24th November 2001 he said, “Knowing what HHJ Bentley is like, I was concerned for your plight”. That
prompts the question – what IS Judge Bentley like? Perhaps he would tell us?
4)
Writing of me, he says, “He wrote to Counsel and
which (sic) I replied to. It became apparent at a very early stage that Norman
Scarth was unwell …”.
At
this ‘very early stage’ stage all the contact between us had been two
letters from me & one from him. For convenience I give again the text of my two letters to him.
5)
My letter
of 5th November 2001: “A supporter
of mine … tells me you could be interested in my case. I am delighted to
hear it - somebody should be! … perhaps
I should tell you that I have in the past been a Litigant In Person. My experience
… is that anyone who has ever been a LIP will never find a lawyer to represent him afterwards – except to stitch him up! Are you an exception?
The solicitor who was supposed to be preparing my defence for my trial tried to
run away, did not do a stroke of work, & then did abandon me five minutes
after the trial had started, leaving me alone at the ‘mercy’ of His ‘Honour’ Judge Bentley. Whatever about my guilt or innocence, his gross misconduct of the ‘trial’ was enough that my
conviction should be quashed. The savage sentence … proved his hatred for
the LIP, me in particular. … Now in prison after a law-abiding life of
76 years, … I am shocked at conditions. They are sophisticated modern day
Belsens … . If you are still interested … please don’t delay: My life expectation is very short under these conditions.”
His letter of 24th
Nov. invited me to give him more information, which I did, as below.
6)
My letter,
27th November 2001: “… I can
drown you in information – it is a horror story beyond belief. … I made application for leave to appeal against conviction, also for bail pending determination
of the appeal. Permission was refused when it went before a single judge ‘on
the papers’. The renewal of that application to the full appeal court has
now been put in. I am waiting to hear.
The fact that you have responded to an L.I.P. at all suggests you are not entirely put off by my past ‘record’. Perhaps I should apologize in advance for any disparaging references to your own profession. My experiences have not been good, & diplomacy is not my strong point! If the WHOLE of the truth were to come out it would
blow the reputation of Britain sky high. That will never be allowed to happen,
so to give me a measure of ‘justice’, while still preserving the reputation of the judiciary (& the nation), I hope that my conviction might be quashed on ‘technical grounds’ – of which
there are plenty!! … If you know a solicitor who WOULD do his best for an ex-LIP, I would be happy to make contact. In the meantime,
I would be grateful for any suggestions. (You
may feel that I am suffering from delusions of grandeur if I say that taking this case on could make you or break you –
probably the latter!!
7)
I am bewildered. Perhaps he would tell us exactly
which words in those two letters made it so clear to him that I was ‘unwell’?
Was it because I told him that I had been an L.I.P. in the past? Was it
because I suggested that the judiciary were not the paragons of virtue we had always been told? Perhaps Mr. Barlow’s revelations of ‘what Judge Bentley
is like’ will support my suggestion?
8)
My skimming through the rest of the documents indicates that there are literally scores of other points that need to be brought to your attention, but one little old man (challenging
a member of one of the most powerful organizations in the land), can only do so much.
9)
So that must do for now, but if I am allowed to live long enough, & can resist the attempts of drug crazy Dr. Quinn to
turn me into a zombie, I will deal with those points fairly soon.
From: Norman Scarth (born 1925)
Survived bloody battle in World War II fighting for Democracy, Freedom, Justice & the Rule of Law:
Worked honestly & hard for 60 years: Late in life became an observer,
researcher, student & successful single-handed reformer of law: Hon.
Sec. of the Litigants In Person Society;
Founder Member of the ARTICLE 6 Group :
Now
Political Prisoner ‘Patient’, Newton Lodge Gulag, Ouchthorpe Lane,
WAKEFIELD
WF1 3SP, England.
Tel. (for patient) 01924 327 396
(to book a visit) [24 hours notice] 01924 327 357
THE MONSTROUS
1983 MENTAL HEALTH ACT (by which I am held here)
MUST have been copied from an original by Hitler or
Stalin !!!
To describe this place as a ‘hospital is a sick joke
It is a cross between a Nazi experimentation ‘hospital’ & a vivisection laboratory.
I note sneering comments
about my adding ‘Witness Statements’ to documents. I do so because
the truth WILL come out one day, & in order that the documents can be used after
my death. I do so again.
The Facts in this Witness Statement are True (E&OE)
Norman Scarth (aka Winston Smith) 26th March. 2003 (‘1984’
+ 19!)
PS: I trust it will not be long before you decide that Mark Barlow should be suspended pending the result of
your investigation of my complaint.
The Article 6 Group: Committed to fighting criminal misuse of law in British
courts
We hope the Bar Council is too, & invite you to join the Article 6 group
(Because Prison Boards of Visitors, the Prison Ombudsman, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Amnesty
International, ‘Liberty’, ‘Justice’ et al, et al, ALL ignore their purported function & duty, there is great need of an Article 3 Group in Britain)
