Church and State blog: August 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013

City of London Police: Declan lodges proceedings with the High Court for a judicial review

Heavey v Commissioner of Police for the City of London and Home Secretary

https://issuu.com/lolaheavey/docs/2.1_n461_claim_1_claim

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Monday, August 19, 2013

No internet connection in Camden Council's St Pancras Library while all around me surf without difficulty

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

City of London Police stop/search at 3.15am with street cleaners

Last night we were woken by a police officer accompanied by two street cleaners. I was certain the officer (PC 632CP) was going to ask us to move out of the porch so the cleaners could drown it with some deep cleaning product (see blog of 30 July, Police send in street cleaners to our sleeping pitch), but it didn't happen. Perhaps it was just a threat; why otherwise would a police officer be accompanied by two street cleaners on a highwalk? Well, at least I caught this photograph for the record:

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I took this photo a few minutes after everybody had left:

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Declan has yet to receive a reply to his judicial review pre-action letter to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London and Home Secretary. Technically, he could have lodged his claim with the High Court yesterday (the facts to be relied on for permission to apply for a judicial review can be read here).

Thursday, August 15, 2013

More vandalism at our sleeping pitch

In the blog of 1 August I published Declan's judicial review pre-action letter to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London and Home Secretary. Technically Declan can file for judicial review tomorrow, having waited 14 days for a response that has not come. A few hours after I posted Declan's pre-action letter, we came back to a rough sleeping pitch drenched with diesel (see yesterday's blog, City of London Police: Declan's facts to be relied on for judicial review). Last night it was the tiny public garden around the corner from our sleeping pitch that got vandalised. For more than three months now we have been using this garden to sit out at night, and knew that this was a stitch up for a serious complaint and another police stop/search in the middle of the night, even a hosing by street cleaners. Within the last couple of weeks we have not only had our sleeping pitch drenched with diesel, but it has been drowned with gallons of heavy duty deep cleaning product.

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We cleaned the mess to the best of our ability and put all the garbage in two of our own bags, which Declan then dropped off at a rubbish point.

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This was taken today at 6am:

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I took this photo of our sleeping pitch yesterday morning at 6.20am just before leaving:

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Monday, August 12, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's facts to be relied on for judicial review

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Our sleeping pitch at Salters' Hall

Heavey v Commissioner of Police for the City of London and Home Secretary

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Thursday, August 08, 2013

No internet connection in Camden Council's Holborn Library while all around me surf without difficulty

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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's grounds for judicial review

Heavey v Commissioner of Police for the City of London and Home Secretary

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Friday, August 02, 2013

Our sleeping pitch drenched with diesel

A few hours after I published Declan's judicial review Letter before claim to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London and the Home Secretary in the previous blog, we arrived at our sleeping pitch on a derelict St Alphage Highwalk at the back of Salters' Hall in the City of London only to find what smelt like fresh diesel splashed from one end of the porch to another. Three days ago it was gallons of heavy duty deep cleaning product (see blog Police send in street cleaners to our sleeping pitch), which was equally difficult to remove. City of London Police Commissioner Adrian Leppard has 14 days to answer Declan's pre-action letter so we are braced for what is in store for us over the next couple of weeks in particular.

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Just before leaving at 6.30am I took this photo. We were able to remove the diesel, or other such foul-smelling substance, but marks remain:

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I took this photo on 29 July and it shows the porch in perfect working order.

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Thursday, August 01, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's judicial review Letter before claim

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Church and State

MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: We have permission to publish this ISAF letter of 30 September to Facebook COO Sheryl Samberg. Facebook has so severely restricted our Page's distribution since 4 September that it's almost as good as an unpublished page

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

Church and State blog

Thursday, August 29, 2013

City of London Police: Declan lodges proceedings with the High Court for a judicial review

Monday, August 19, 2013

No internet connection in Camden Council's St Pancras Library while all around me surf without difficulty

Saturday, August 17, 2013

City of London Police stop/search at 3.15am with street cleaners

Thursday, August 15, 2013

More vandalism at our sleeping pitch

Monday, August 12, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's facts to be relied on for judicial review

Thursday, August 08, 2013

No internet connection in Camden Council's Holborn Library while all around me surf without difficulty

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's grounds for judicial review

Friday, August 02, 2013

Our sleeping pitch drenched with diesel

Thursday, August 01, 2013

City of London Police: Declan's judicial review Letter before claim

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