THIS WEB SITE HAS BEEN SET UP TO WARN HOW A LEGAL TEAM ACTING FOR THE COMMISSIONER
OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS MISLED THE COURT (This web site is NOT,repeat NOT ,the Official web site of Simon Freeland QC) If you are taking civil actions against the Metropolitan Police, London,UK be very careful because you will find that you come up against a legal team quite prepared to mislead the Court with no compunction. Such cases are not about Justice, they are , it appears, about how well the Commissioner can mislead the Court . Take my case for one good example. The case involved a search warrant that I now know to have been invalid. It was in any event obtained by misleading a magistrate as to the facts. The lead barrister acting for the defendant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolice (Met Police) Mr Simon Freeland QC of 5 Essex Court Chambers is a barrister very experienced in police law. Assisting Mr Simon Freeland was Mr Jeremy Johnson who is also a barrister of 5 Essex Court Chambers along with Ms Lucy Humberstone a Solicitor from Bircham Dyson Bell solicitors . All these 3 parties acted as the defence team for the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and are involved in many such cases of defending police forces and officers. Mr Simon Freeland QC drafted an untrue defence to my claim against the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Whether this was a deliberate act or grossly reckless remains to be discovered but I cannot believe that such an experienced barrister in police law would not have checked to see whether the warrant was actual valid. For example, if someone pleads that a "warrant is invalid" woul;d you not expect a barrister to check whether it was invalid before pleading to it ?. Yes of course you would ,and if Mr Freeland did check then he would have found that it was invalid. If he did not check then he was grossly negligent. On the 25th March 2003 ,referring to the defence document, the High Court stated in their Judgment that... ".......One certainly does not expect the Commissioner to be downright wrong and certainly not misleading..." Unfortunately for myself by this date they had used their deceit to their advantage . I then made some enquiries and found out that not only was the defence untrue but that the legal team knew this and failed to advise the court of same. This was not a mistake ,all of the above named had known for some long time that the defence was not true (assuming ,for sake of argument ,that Mr Freeland did not draft the untrue defence deliberately) and chose to ensure that the Court was not made aware of this fact. Indeed during a conversation with Ms Humberstone of Bircham Dyson Bell solicitors she advised me that they should ,after all, have told the Court. The behaviour of all three ,but particularly Mr Simon Freeland QC appears to constitute a breach of the Courts & Legal Services Act 1990 that rules that those with a right of audience to Court must abide by their professions codes of conduct, something that they did not do by misleading the Court. Maybe it is pure coincidence that a fellow QC the Attorney General should then promptly step in to stop myself referring Mr Freeland and his teams actions to the civil Court of Appeal . I note also that several barristers from Mr Simon Freeland's chambers ,including one Jeremy Johnson who was also involved in misleading the Court, are on the Attorney General's panel of Counsel. Why should the Attorney General ,employed by the Government, be allowed to deny a person access to Justice ?. The Treasury Solicitor, acting for the Attorney General, contacted one of the defendant's by letter and asked that defendant to "pass around the letter" to to anyone that defendant might know could help the AG's case. THAT is hardly the sign of independence, is it ?. Indeed I would have to ask whether the Treasury Solicitor perhaps invoked the Court in order to prevent the deceit of the Court being raised ,as it was about to be ?. So remember, if you are litigating against the Met Police / Police,and they have the above legal team representing them, look out for the above described tactics as they will use the dirtiest tactics possible and most certainly not what you would expect ,unless of course you knew them. Be warned also about DC Eric Storey of Walworth Police station, who misled a magistrate to obtain what was in any event an invalid search warrant. |