Press Releases & Updates 2000

Victoria Halls, JP Mr Gillies, PF Chris Donnelly

Brian Quail’s Adjustments Hearing was held in Chambers, ie a pokey little room. Brian was allowed one person to attend which was Jane. He had appealed against a previous conviction and received a Stated Case (the magistrates version of what happened at the trial and his reasons for conviction.). Brian then submitted his ’adjustments’, ie things he felt were inaccurrate in the Stated Case. This hearing was for the Magistrate to hear Brians adjustments and decide whether to allow them.

Brian wanted ’there to protest against nuclear weapons’ in the Stated Case to be changed to ’there to protest against the deployment of Trident’. Chris Donnelly said that it was better to put ’the alleged deployment of nuclear weapons’. At this point Brian and Jane nearly fell off their chairs, and Brian asked him how he could say ’alleged’ with a straight face, everyone knew that Trident was ’deployed’, why even the Taxi’s in Helensburgh were called Trident! JP Gillies agreed to Brians wording.

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