Comments on: Free Brian Leith

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:44:07 +0000

I dunno about that - I love the NHS for saving my lungs, and received excellent treatment (even if they did cock up shockingly along the way to the operation!) and I'm fairly sure the majority of Legal Aid lawyers are, at the very least, competent, albeit overworked.

The lawyer who we're probably going to get an angry letter from soon failed on a number of counts that look pretty shocking to me - like informing his client that an appeal had failed and he needed to be in the country, or, you know, mentioning the fact that Brian Leith had cancer and epilepsy and wasn't selling gear to anyone (I assume - there's no specific clarification of this on the site that I can see, so if he was selling weed, this post is toast and I'm removing my name from the petition!)

Really the question here is how anyone growing a Category C (or soon-to-be Cat. C?) drug for personal medical use can end up behind bars at all...

By: badgergirl

badgergirl — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:41:57 +0000

it would appear the legal aid lawyers are much like the NHS doctors, they have about five minutes for you and aint in the least bit concerned or interested in your case/illness

sad state of affairs, all in all

bah

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:24:22 +0000

The weird thing is that it's getting no press beyond the Big Issue (someone who works there knows your man Brian)

Sunday Herald might well be on the case now, thanks to Len, so hopefully with a bit of fuss kicked up he'll have a better chance at appealling. Though I would've thought the unbelievably bad advice of the solicitor would be enough to secure an appeal - I mean, not mentioning the mitigating circumstances in court? WTF?

By: badgergirl

badgergirl — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:16:08 +0000

yup, read about that on the 'other' place - its just bloody awful, wish we could do more to help him