Here are 22 paragraphs as Reasons for Decision by Mr Justice Wyn Williams

  1. to refuse the application for Habeas Corpus
  2. to refuse an application for bail
  3. to decline to consider an application to purge his contempt.

4: I accept that the Claimant had little time to respond to the documentation provided on behalf of the Secretary of State of Justice.

11: I am unpersuaded that I should find that the Claimant’s rights under Article 6 of the Convention were breached by the procedure which was adopted at the Crown Court.

13: Habeas Corpus is not the appropriate remedy to get the medication that Norman needs. If formal complaints don’t succeed, he might consider a ‘judicial review’.

15: There is simply no proper evidence regarding the Claimant’s ill health…

Conclusion on habeas corpus

19. … his interests are much better served by an appeal to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

Purging contempt

21. Judge Rose is in a better position to judge the seriousness of the contempt and the genuineness of the Claimant’s application to purge his contempt. It is a possible outcome of the appeal that the court will uphold the finding of contempt and also determine that a sentence of six months’ imprisonment was an appropriate one. Even in those circumstances, however, the court might be prepared to entertain an application to purge the contempt. 

22. … bail pending appeal is rarely granted…

I guess Norman / Chris Jarvis can’t win the legal arguments. Appealing on compassionate grounds may be the only avenue.

Will the judge in the Appeal Court have a heart that can feel compassion??? Can we speak to it with our petition comments?

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