Our email is still erratic. Will our employment contracts make it out of the UK this year?
Our Church and State website has no less than 48 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
4 January 2019: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!
Update on: 4 February at 4.26pm
17 July 2018: Royal Mail: Once again Declan complains to the CEO of Royal Mail about mail not being delivered through our letter box (WITH UPDATE 1/8/2018)
Re: Royal Mail
Paragraph 42 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
42. The Applicant further complains that the extent of the interference with his and his wife's emails resulted in 2011 in the shelving of the Applicant's petition to the United Nations in support of embryonic stem cell research, which had by then been signed by 29 Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of other distinguished scholars from around the world. In April 2010, an American professor wrote to Minister Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse." Despite the Minister's subsequent letter to then Home Secretary Theresa May (see para. 6 above), it is still not uncommon for the Applicant to have to make phone calls to try to get emails through to people. The Applicant has also amassed irrefutable evidence relating to problems with mail delivery (both incoming and outgoing). Most recently, in May 2017, the Applicant complained to Royal Mail about the mishandling of his and his wife's incoming mail following the loss of their employment contracts to the United States. He had repeatedly complained about mail not being put through their letter box before he received £30 in compensation from Royal Mail and an assurance from the Royal Mail Chief Executive's Office that "the actions taken will prevent this happening again".
Paragraph 42 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
42. The Applicant further complains that the extent of the interference with his and his wife's emails resulted in 2011 in the shelving of the Applicant's petition to the United Nations in support of embryonic stem cell research, which had by then been signed by 29 Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of other distinguished scholars from around the world. In April 2010, an American professor wrote to Minister Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse." Despite the Minister's subsequent letter to then Home Secretary Theresa May (see para. 6 above), it is still not uncommon for the Applicant to have to make phone calls to try to get emails through to people. The Applicant has also amassed irrefutable evidence relating to problems with mail delivery (both incoming and outgoing). Most recently, in May 2017, the Applicant complained to Royal Mail about the mishandling of his and his wife's incoming mail following the loss of their employment contracts to the United States. He had repeatedly complained about mail not being put through their letter box before he received £30 in compensation from Royal Mail and an assurance from the Royal Mail Chief Executive's Office that "the actions taken will prevent this happening again".
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