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Courts of Convenience: From human honour to machine void
How "we have always done it this way" is half-true, and very problematic today
Sep 5
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Martin Geddes
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Nullity vs Cure: Anisminic and Section 123 MCA 1980
How HMCTS is undermining the foundations of modern public law via "ghost courts"
Sep 4
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Martin Geddes
27
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Usurpation by simulation: the court identity problem
Unpacking how HMCTS has replaced law with "legal theatre" for throughput
Sep 3
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Martin Geddes
33
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The Teesside test: exposing “admindiction” in the magistrates’ courts
Without constituting instruments, our lower courts cannot claim lawful authority
Sep 3
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Martin Geddes
36
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"This screams High Court" — Magistrate
A strategic win in Carlisle, with significant repercussions, even if relief not granted
Sep 2
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Martin Geddes
66
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August 2025
Official: my "court" is "not known to law"
Ministry of Justice confirms that legal instruments are being issued against "ghost" non-entities with no statutory basis
Aug 30
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Martin Geddes
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Court invite: Carlisle, Monday 1st Sept, 2pm
The public is welcome to attend an historic Section 142 hearing on "ghost courts"
Aug 28
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Martin Geddes
35
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JCS Matters: “smoking guns” in their own words
What the justice clerks’ newsletters reveal about automation, revenue enforcement, and due-process risk.
Aug 27
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Martin Geddes
26
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The King’s Bench Coup: Lord Mansfield, Dartford, and the "unreasonable citizen"
How we live with the legacy of a jurisdiction coup by Lord Mansfield in the C18th
Aug 26
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Martin Geddes
34
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State official pushes extreme "freeman of the bureaucracy" legal theory
A dangerous "sovereign administrator" movement misleads the public into believing the rule of law has been abolished and there are no constraints on…
Aug 25
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Martin Geddes
46
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The postal void of England’s Local Justice Area courts
Just when you thought the "ghost court" scandal couldn't get any worse, it does!
Aug 23
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Martin Geddes
36
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Ministry of Justice proposes to abolish habeas corpus (unless we stop them)
A radical and unconstitutional guidance note for court legal advisors sneaks in removal of the foundational guarantee of liberty in English justice
Aug 23
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Martin Geddes
49
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