Antaletriangle
12-05-2008, 07:12 PM
http://www.oneballradio.com:80/video/hamish_howitt_royal_courts_of_justice_interviews
He is the last UK Pub landlord to fight the smoking ban. Despite numerous fines, threats to revoke his license, close him down and bankrupt him, he soldiers on to make a gallant stand against government oppression. Although he does not smoke himself and does not encourage smoking, he abhors the unfair law that UK politicians have introduced which prohibits consenting adults from smoking in public places. One Ball radio's very own Matthew Delooze interviews him before, during and after his court appearance.
Also included are some of Hamish's customer's opinions of him and his bar.
Videos above conducted by Matthew delooze and oneball radio.
http://www.oneballradio.com:80/node/144
Matthew delooze,
Hello Folks,
Hamish Howitt appeared in the High Court (Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand) in London yesterday. One-ball-radio was with him. The ‘local authorities’ had taken him there after they had previously failed to revoke his licence to sell alcohol at a local court level. The local authorities had claimed that smoking in Hamish’s pub amounted to crime and disorder, on a par with the use of Class A drugs and pornography but a district Judge in Blackpool ruled in Hamish’s favour and said it didn’t.
Before the local district Judge had ruled in Hamish’s favour the authorities in Blackpool had also heavily fined Hamish, and other members of his family or employees, on several occasions. Anyway the hearing went ahead and as you will see in the video, supplied by one-ball-radio, that Hamish was confident of winning as he thought the High Court Judge would uphold the Judgement of the local Judge and say smoking was not an act of ‘disorder’.
Smoking in a pub had been made a ‘crime’, by hypocrites in the government, whom voted to impose a complete ban on smoking in bars in 2007, apart from their own bar in the House of Commons of course, but surely lighting a cigarette was not an act of ‘disorder’, thought Hamish. The Secretary of State had ‘intervened’ in this case and used a Barrister against Hamish. The Blackpool authorities had also hired a Barrister, both paid for by the taxpayer of course. Hamish had no representation (he couldn’t afford a Barrister)
Please check out mainstream reports on this matter for legal arguments. I am not here to go in to that. All I know is that when I walked in the court behind Hamish I knew he hadn’t a chance. Yes smoking a cigarette is now a crime in a public house but how the bloody hell does it cause any disorder?
I watched the Judge involved, Judge Denyer, cough and splutter his way through an hour of ******** legal arguments trying to justify that smoking a cigarette in a pub was an act of ‘crime ‘and’ ‘disorder’. What utter bollocks and what a waste of time, how much are these puppets paid by the way? I also watched two over paid morons, that had been hired by local and national authorities, dressed in wigs and robes, prance around trying to do the same thing. These three puppets for the state put on a farcical show, pretending the public had rights. I’ll tell you the truth now shipmates, we have no rights at all. We only think we have.
Hamish was a typical sitting duck. The Judge eventually over-ruled the decision of the district Judge and revoked Hamish’s licence indicating that Hamish allowed crime and disorder to be carried out in his pub. Granted Judge Denyer did have a game of words in which he claimed the word ‘and’ actually meant ‘or’ but at the end of the day Judge Denyer immediately shut Hamish down. With the Secretary of State involved, along with the pathetic Blackpool authorities, there was never going to be any other decision.
To my surprise Judge Denyer didn’t award costs against Hamish. Judge Denyer brushed the £8700 bill, for two hours in court, aside. The taxpaying public of Blackpool will pick up the tab. Hamish left the court, obviously down hearted but certainly not beaten, at least on a spiritual level anyway.
cont.on link above.
He is the last UK Pub landlord to fight the smoking ban. Despite numerous fines, threats to revoke his license, close him down and bankrupt him, he soldiers on to make a gallant stand against government oppression. Although he does not smoke himself and does not encourage smoking, he abhors the unfair law that UK politicians have introduced which prohibits consenting adults from smoking in public places. One Ball radio's very own Matthew Delooze interviews him before, during and after his court appearance.
Also included are some of Hamish's customer's opinions of him and his bar.
Videos above conducted by Matthew delooze and oneball radio.
http://www.oneballradio.com:80/node/144
Matthew delooze,
Hello Folks,
Hamish Howitt appeared in the High Court (Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand) in London yesterday. One-ball-radio was with him. The ‘local authorities’ had taken him there after they had previously failed to revoke his licence to sell alcohol at a local court level. The local authorities had claimed that smoking in Hamish’s pub amounted to crime and disorder, on a par with the use of Class A drugs and pornography but a district Judge in Blackpool ruled in Hamish’s favour and said it didn’t.
Before the local district Judge had ruled in Hamish’s favour the authorities in Blackpool had also heavily fined Hamish, and other members of his family or employees, on several occasions. Anyway the hearing went ahead and as you will see in the video, supplied by one-ball-radio, that Hamish was confident of winning as he thought the High Court Judge would uphold the Judgement of the local Judge and say smoking was not an act of ‘disorder’.
Smoking in a pub had been made a ‘crime’, by hypocrites in the government, whom voted to impose a complete ban on smoking in bars in 2007, apart from their own bar in the House of Commons of course, but surely lighting a cigarette was not an act of ‘disorder’, thought Hamish. The Secretary of State had ‘intervened’ in this case and used a Barrister against Hamish. The Blackpool authorities had also hired a Barrister, both paid for by the taxpayer of course. Hamish had no representation (he couldn’t afford a Barrister)
Please check out mainstream reports on this matter for legal arguments. I am not here to go in to that. All I know is that when I walked in the court behind Hamish I knew he hadn’t a chance. Yes smoking a cigarette is now a crime in a public house but how the bloody hell does it cause any disorder?
I watched the Judge involved, Judge Denyer, cough and splutter his way through an hour of ******** legal arguments trying to justify that smoking a cigarette in a pub was an act of ‘crime ‘and’ ‘disorder’. What utter bollocks and what a waste of time, how much are these puppets paid by the way? I also watched two over paid morons, that had been hired by local and national authorities, dressed in wigs and robes, prance around trying to do the same thing. These three puppets for the state put on a farcical show, pretending the public had rights. I’ll tell you the truth now shipmates, we have no rights at all. We only think we have.
Hamish was a typical sitting duck. The Judge eventually over-ruled the decision of the district Judge and revoked Hamish’s licence indicating that Hamish allowed crime and disorder to be carried out in his pub. Granted Judge Denyer did have a game of words in which he claimed the word ‘and’ actually meant ‘or’ but at the end of the day Judge Denyer immediately shut Hamish down. With the Secretary of State involved, along with the pathetic Blackpool authorities, there was never going to be any other decision.
To my surprise Judge Denyer didn’t award costs against Hamish. Judge Denyer brushed the £8700 bill, for two hours in court, aside. The taxpaying public of Blackpool will pick up the tab. Hamish left the court, obviously down hearted but certainly not beaten, at least on a spiritual level anyway.
cont.on link above.