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Originally Posted by dav
Hmmmm....I think this goes some way to removing the 'comfort' part from Kent's 'letter of comfort from the Home Office.' In no way are the HO saying it is legal or not, merely that it has not been tested in a court of law (yet).
I think the HO are back-pedaling a little to distance themselves from the apparent Phorm-friendly stance they previously allowed Phorm to spout about.
Recent days go to show that governmental u-turns are not impossible. Give the HO a little time to breathe and they may well come around to our way of thinking and realise that their real boss is Joe Public and not some shyster out to make a quick buck off the backs of ordinary folk.
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Given that Phorm and BT have continually refused, despite my public challenges here an on El Reg, to publish the full legal opinions they claim to have received including the full details of the QC who provided this advice, one has to ask if this "letter of comfort"** was all that they actually had?
So yet again I challenge Phorm to provide the full QC opinion, including date and time of original issue and the details of the QC who provided it. No spin or interpretation needed thank you, just the full QC opinion. There are people here who can and will provide suitable interpretation.
It's not difficult.
The HO had little choice other than to admit that the "letter of comfort" did not qualify as legal opinion given that Nicholas Bohm has already reminded them that the courts decide on what is and isn't legal under the law.
They still have not answered why they have done nothing to investigate the secret trials. Time to write to my MP again...
**It's a bit different to the kind of thing I would regard as a letter of comfort... Something like
"Dear CaptHunter, I'm happy to confirm to you that the
story about Sky One remaking Blake's 7 is in fact nothing more than a complete fabrication and we will not, in fact, be going ahead with any such production." would be very comforting right now.
OK, who thought it was going to be something very different? *grin*