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oxford uni sacks its lawyer Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden

sarah's mum | 20.02.2007 23:36 | Animal Liberation | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | Oxford

oxford university has sacked its lawyer, Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, following an abortive attempt to get two activists comitted to prison.

All is not going well for the infamous injunction lawyer Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden. He is currently faceing a blizzard of complaints due to questions arising from his involvement with the arms firm EDO in Brighton. Now it appears that Oxford university have dispensed with his services following his failure to get Mel & Rob of the SPEAK campaign locked up for supposedly breaching an injunction. This humiliating defeat has cost his client, Oxford University, over £40,000. The task of protecting the university's animal torture lab has now beeen given to a new firm of Solicitors, Simmons & Simmons. Whilst they have an excellent reputation when it comes to protecting Life Science patents how they will handle the "Protection from Harassment Act" remains to be seen.
Watch this space!

sarah's mum

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heh...

21.02.2007 02:06

i think its about time that man found a more suitable occupation, perhaps as a vivisection subject of a smart bomb release mechanism testing device.

Even the smug inbred dimwits of Oxford Uni have finally spotted what a knobhead he is.

bub


Haha!

21.02.2007 20:27

It was only a matter of time before that twat got his come uppance!!!
If Oxford think they can win they have another thing coming... hahahaha!

Wanda


simmons & simmons solicitors - bad news for who?

22.02.2007 00:10

Ok. A new firm of "harassment" lawyers have taken up the case of Oxford University. They have a lot of staff. They could end up doing business with EDO, HLS, Harrods and anyone else that feels that protest is harassment. All they will achieve is to piss people off and drive legal protesters underground. The fact is that the only people who obey injunctions are law abiding people. So, the more they injunct people from doing what would be otherwise legal the more they are likley to fuel illegal underground actions. Still, its a free country, in the sense that everyone is free to do whatever they feel that they can get away with until they get caught out. TLC found that one out the hard way.

Lets hope that Oxford University start encorageing a real debate rether than spending taxpayers money suppressing views that they find inconvenient. Otherwise both the university and their new lawyers could find the following link reveals a themetune that may haunt them for some time to come!

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