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Dec. 8th, 2005 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingUK highest court rules that evidence obtained by torture is inadmissable, regardless of circumstance:
"The principles of the common law, standing alone, in my opinion compel the exclusion of third-party torture evidence as unreliable, unfair, offensive to ordinary standards of humanity and decency and incompatible with the principles which should animate a tribunal seeking to administer justice" -- Lord Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and head of the panel that ruled on the subject.
(Stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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"The principles of the common law, standing alone, in my opinion compel the exclusion of third-party torture evidence as unreliable, unfair, offensive to ordinary standards of humanity and decency and incompatible with the principles which should animate a tribunal seeking to administer justice" -- Lord Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and head of the panel that ruled on the subject.
(Stolen from
autopope, whose "A Colder War" can never be pimped quite enough.)Also,
Also,
See her? That's "Christopher Robin" in Disney's new Pooh series.
Also,
Miss snow? Have a webcam? Add snow to your webcam! The wind follows your cursor and the snow piles up on any "edges" it finds in the image.
Also,
Need an alibi? Buy one! The Alibi network will provide corroborating evidence for the lies of your choice, for a $35 annual subscription.
Also,
Also,
Has anyone else ever noticed the similarity between ontology and oncology, and thought about what that might mean in the right setting?
Also,
Annoying Computer Things In Movies. A particular unfavourite is "A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries" - but that's because it's really true, because an idiot manager somewhere wrote the password down on his desk.