THE search of Senator Stuart Syvret’s home without a warrant was legal, Attorney General William Bailhache told the States yesterday.
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A Week in Politics
I’VE got to admit it, sometimes this column pretty much writes itself.
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Emergency sitting of the States
AN emergency States sitting has been called in the wake of Senator Stuart Syvret’s arrest over data protection allegations. Using an obscure and rarely enacted provision in the Standing Orders of the States, a group of seven Members have formally requisitioned an emergency sitting. They say they want the States to consider the decisions taken […]
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He acts like a spoilt child who needs a dose of reality
From Simon Wells. I WRITE with reference to Richard Farnham’s letter (JEP, 16 April) in which he mentions an entry on Senator Stuart Syvret’s blog: ‘Come to sunny Jersey! The North Korea of the English Channel.’ I have not been reading Senator Syvret’s blog, but I am totally astounded by how he can compare Jersey […]
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Eleven Members back law-breaking Deputies
ELEVEN States Members have signed a letter in support of two St Helier No 2 Deputies who face sentencing for breaking the Public Elections Law. They say the law as it stands is unfair, and particularly restricts old and unwell voters from participating in free and fair elections. Deputies Geoff Southern and Shona Pitman are […]
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Propaganda and the truth
From Edward Gallarde. I WRITE in support of B Amy and against his critics. While they spout right-wing propaganda, Mr Amy writes the truth. Throughout the 1930s the Jersey labour movement was growing in strength, despite unemployment and appalling wages. My father was working at the docks; he was lucky to bring home £2 a […]
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Syvret wants to call A-G as his witness
SENATOR Stuart Syvret wants to call the Attorney General as a witness in his abuse of process hearing, which he says centres on a ‘criminal conspiracy against him’.
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Syvret: It wasn’t me, says AG
ATTORNEY General William Bailhache has denied that he instigated the arrest of Senator Stuart Syvret on suspicion of breaching data protection laws. The Senator was arrested outside his Grouville home on Monday morning and held at police headquarters for some seven hours, much of the time in a cell. But Mr Bailhache (pictured) says that […]
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Syvret: ‘It was like cops and robbers’
SENATOR Stuart Syvret says that his arrest yesterday was like something out of a ‘New York cops and robbers TV series’. He used his one phone call after being arrested yesterday morning to call the JEP Newsdesk to describe the arrest — and said that the police did not have a warrant to search the […]
