Halligen v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011]

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Halligen v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011]

EWHC 1584 (Admin) (21 June 2011)

[2011] EWHC 1584 (Admin)

Neutral Citation Number: [2011] EWHC 1584 (Admin)

Case No: CO/135253/2010

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
21/06/2011

B e f o r e :

LORD JUSTICE LAWS AND MR. JUSTICE STADLEN
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Between:

Kevin Richard Halligen
Appellant

- and -

Secretary of State for the Home Department

-and-

Government of the United States of America
Respondent

Interested Party
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Mr Stephen Vullo and Mr David Patience (instructed by Carter Moore Solicitors) for the Appellant
Mr Ben Watson (instructed by Treasury Solicitors) for the Respondent
Mr Ben Lloyd (instructed by The Crown Prosecution Service) for the Interested Party
Hearing date: 19th April 2011
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Continue Reading... Labels: 2011, Madeleine McCann

Kevin Halligen (McCann detective) will be extradited to US

KEVIN HALLIGEN
21 June 2011
Liverpool Echo
   

A businessman whose firm helped look for Madeleine McCann has failed in a last ditch High Court bid to escape extradition over an alleged £1.3m fraud.

Kevin Halligen is now set to stand trial in the US accused of defrauding a London law firm.

It is claimed he took the money to secure the release of Dutch business executives arrested in the Ivory Coast but instead spent it on a mansion.

The 49-year-old’s company, Oakley International, was employed in 2008 by Allerton-born Kate and Gerry McCann to find their three-year-old daughter, who disappeared in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

But after six months, his contract was cancelled by the Find Madeleine Fund after he delivered little to the investigation.

Halligen, whose firm was based in Washington, was arrested in 2009 after months spent evading police.

He was found staying at the plush Old Bank hotel in Oxfordshire, where he was known under a number of aliases.

Halligen would spend most of his evenings getting drunk in the bar, witnesses said, and caused consternation over unpaid bills.

In December last year, Home Secretary Theresa May ordered his extradition to stand trial in America, but lawyers for Halligen challenged the move at London's High Court.

However, his case fell at the first hurdle yesterday when top judges ruled he had left it too late to lodge an appeal against the extradition order.

They also dismissed claims that the tight time limit violated his human rights.

Mr Justice Stadlen concluded: "The court has no jurisdiction to entertain Mr Halligen's appeal."

Kate McCann this month said she was confident that her daughter can be traced after Scotland Yard was called in to review the investigation.

Continue Reading... Labels: 2011, Find Madeleine Fund, Madeleine McCann

BCC response to Complaints re: lie about Goncalo Amaral is NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Where is the FORMAL APOLOGY FROM BBC?

Fact: Dr. Goncalo Amaral did NOT say "Fuck the McCanns".

Mike O' Sullivan, his producer, "senior colleagues" and any BBC spokespersons involved need to issue a formal apology and ensure corrections are printed in all of the news sources listed below.

This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH, BBC:

"Further action
The Editor of the programme has discussed the outcome with the producer and reporter involved. In future, the team plans to use interpreters if clips from interviews are unclear."

Changing your "future" policy does not address the harm done to Goncalo Amaral's reputation.

Further, the BBC spokesperson quoted below stated categorically that "The reply was clearly 'f*** the McCanns", therefore using interpreters "if clips from interviews are unclear" does NOT adequately address the complaints lodged.  

It must be determined what "senior colleagues" were consulted by Mike O' Sullivan, as well as who the spokespersons were and what qualifications they had for stating on behalf of BBC itself that Amaral's "reply was clearly 'fuck the McCanns".  

There also needs to be an explanation as to why it took over 16 months to address the numerous complaints and admit the truth of the matter.

Continue Reading... Labels: 2011, BBC, Gonçalo Amaral, Madeleine McCann, Mike O'Sullivan