• Who are we?

• The Bugler trudges through the UK Courts on the way to Strasbourg ~ The European Court of Human Rights;

• The TPO ‘Court’ ~ High Court N.Ireland ~ Chancery Court ~ High Court ~ Court of Appeal ~ Supreme Court;

• Meeting The Good ;The Bad; The Ugly; The just Plain Criminal;

• The Court of Appeal ~ Agincourt ‘Salute’;

• Lord Reed of Allermuir ~ President UK Supreme Court;

• Lady Hale ~ Baroness Hale of Richmond; First Lady President of the UK Supreme Court(Rtd);

• Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore ~ Supreme Court Judge(Rtd) ~ sadly deceased.

This is who we are when you desperately need us…

As we all well know, those of us who have spent their lives ‘on the red line’ up at the ‘sharp end’, there is a great deal of calm trepidation as the Breathing Apparatus is quickly but carefully and thoughtfully donned and the strict disciplined regime is followed to ‘book in’ at the BA Entry Board because upon it will depend the very lives of those booking in over the next 30 minutes or so and those we go to help…all until the air runs out…

The BA Tally is unclipped and handed over as the Entry Officer does his/her checks on you, nods and glances are given, the pat on the shoulder, the waiting is over, you clip onto your comrade and off you go into the deep dark unknown…

The waiting, the worst part is over and if it is a first strike deep penetration the cold sweat begins and the discipline of training once more clicks in…the impenetrable thick black smoke…the increasing temperatures as the sweeping thermal imager seeks out the life to be found and the core of the fire to be attacked…

And having made it back, mostly in one piece, mission accomplished, to see on a frosty night the masks being removed with the perspiration tracking down through the grime and dripping from the exhausted stressed out faces and the steam rising from the shoulders of the tunics, who could not escape the sense pride and privilege of commanding such Yeoman of England?

It is amusing, given this brief insight, that the Journey for Truth and Justice  through the Courts which the Bugler followed was a trivial dalliance; even more amusing was being threatened with dire consequences if he did not give up.

Perhaps these knaves need reminding of the work we do for a pension (we paid for) payable living and which the Bugler has engaged in; being shot at in Belfast and Nagorny Karabakh; being burnt, scalded, crushed and cut; spewing snot and saliva out of seared lungs down the front of a tunic; lying face down in Armenia in an 18″ space with another comrade searching for lost children under a 15 floor semi collapsed building as a ‘7 on the Richter Scale aftershock’ passed through; so some goat wearing a wig, who is still a goat, thinks we are likely to yield to such priggish juvenile threats, then think again…

Now back to the Courts…

This is only one of the great confidence tricks perpetuated by the current head of TPO, Mr. A. Arter a former Special (Irish) Branch policeman on the nation’s pensioners when trouble strikes their pension. A corrupt civil servant who we shall see shortly does not hesitate to engage in falsehood when it serves his own personal gain.

By no stretch of the imagination can TPO described as a ‘Court’, it is simply nothing of the kind. It is not governed by ‘Court Procedures and Rules’ as other Courts are; it is actually accountable to no one, excluding the government of the day and the pension ‘industry’ which it serves with vigour and enthusiasm.

It applies these talents to mislead, con, obstruct, obfuscate, to lie and ‘wither on the vine of life’ any pensioner attempting to achieve simple justice where their pensions are concerned whilst practicing the hypocrisy that one day they will hold civil servants pensions themselves, which we pay for.

How do we know? Because first hand, for 5 years, we have endured and by attrition overwhelmed their iniquity.

Of course they produce their annual report and glowing statistics…lies, damned lies, and TPO statistics.

The full TPO analyses was dealt with as Chapter 16 on the ‘Journey of Truth’, Go Here.

The High Court ~ N.Ireland .

The TPO unwittingly offered several opportunities to submit disabled FSV~FMG’s case to a ‘real’ Court which, by thoughtful choice, became the High Court at the Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street Belfast  situated immediately opposite Belfast Fire Brigade HQ(moved since) where the Bugler was trained and served on Station ‘Alpha’ when first inducted into the Service.

This ‘Court’ decision has been described in rather a snooty way as a ‘false start’,  or the Bugler’s first feeble attempt at engaging with real ‘Courts’; it was nothing of the kind, it was a carefully thought through tactic to ‘ambush’ the TPO/ Lancashire Freemasons cabal (to see how far they all could reach outside England ~ nowhere) and to see, at low /no cost (as it transpired), how a High Court Judge of note might handle it all; indeed, thus far, ‘real British Courts’ had nothing to gloat about with the debacles of embarrassing  mischief making which, to date, they have engaged in.

The Belfast Staff at the Registry were welcoming and extraordinarily helpful in every respect; respect being the order of the day, to and for, an LiP. Notably well managed.

There followed 3 Hearings one of which was a ‘review’ before a local ‘Recorder'(Part time judge) who had not the vaguest notion of either pensions or his own Judicature Court Rules; but those before High Court Judge Sir Paul Maguire were entirely different, conducted with thoughtful care and impressive courtesy giving explanations where required of his approach to the case and on the question of Jurisdiction, in  the correct sense, not some Court of Appeal Registry ‘lawyer’ called Angus, to be demonstrated, engaged in obstruction and falsehood.

Under estimating Firefighters is a trait to be welcomed because the Judiciary should never under estimate its opponent; al la, Fancourt J who thought this was ‘all too technical for disabled FSV~FMG’; keep up the arrogant insulting stupidity it is most encouraging…

The bottom line in Belfast was a Judge who stated he had the case bundle(500 pages) for 6 weeks and had read it cover to cover twice and concluded it should jurisdictionally go back to the English Court of Appeal(its their problem) on the old legal principle of ‘forum non conveniens’, with no costs, but stating (twice) that in his opinion this case was “winnable”.

Now when a very experienced High Court Judge of note anywhere informs you this, not once but twice, then everyone associated with this case ought to sit up and take notice.

 Court of Chancery ~ England .

The Court of Chancery( the Bugler nearly wrote the Court of Chicanery which is all too accurate) was where disabled FSV~FMG’s First Appeal landed after being sent from, in the first of many calculated obstructions/delays by Messers Coburn/Chowdhury/Angus at the Registry of the Court of Appeal all of which lasted 15 months without a conclusion being reached, other than a complete denial of Justice, unlike the High Court in Belfast, which took a whole 6 weeks.

It is a curious place for matters Pensions to be dealt with unless this Court , as it seems, only deals with all disputes involving ‘money’ where the ‘money boys and girls’ claw each others eyes out on matters which dominate their very lives, nay is their very life, their God, money.

Interestingly Sarah Falk would have been very familiar with this arena where for 30 years as a mere solicitor she represented those with money who wished by ‘hook or crook’ to avoid paying tax, unlike all the rest of us, no doubt learning a few tricks for herself in passing all before becoming a Lady Justice with a political message of (it is assumed) integrity at the Court of Appeal and the first Judge to maladroitly handle disabled FSV~FMG’s case…

 High Court ~ England .

Before looking at the ‘experience’ of the Bugler and his comrades at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales we first must look at the specific role and function of the High Court for England and Wales on disabled FSV~FMG’s case as distinct from other jurisdictions within the supposed ‘United Kingdom’, a quaint expression which really no longer applies in the 21st Century, because each of the other jurisdictions of both N.Ireland and Scotland have it own jurisdiction and Judicature and no doubt Wales will shortly follow in further Devolution.

Before leaving the Belfast Court Sir Paul Maguire commented on the distinctly different ‘two stage’ Appeal procedure(unlike Belfast) peculiar to the Court of Appeal in England. He stated this ‘mechanism’ was designed to prevent persons with ‘more money than sense’ from abusing the judicial system and clogging it up with spurious claims so this artificial additional first hurdle called ‘seeking permission to appeal’ was created. It is a flagrant abuse of democracy.

In the Bugler’s opinion, and now experience, this statement was an incomplete explanation of its true function which is actually to deny Justice at a Judicial whim; the basis of a single Judge’s opinion rather than a collegiate panel of Judges, and can as the Bugler now knows, be misused for that very questionable practice.

And so in disabled FSV~FMG’s case we had not only to clear this artificial hurdle to Justice but a hurdle which incorporated incompetent, and/or bent, Judges with no specialist pension knowledge; being controlled by Judicial Freemasonry from above; fully supported by a fully controlled and compliant Registry staff who did not hesitate to engage in criminality to do their master’s bidding when, as we shall see later, it suited the denial of Justice for the purpose of this current Conservative government.

In fact, unlike the Supreme Court which requires the engagement of 3, or more, Judges in an ‘Appeal review’ all that it takes at this stage is one bent or incompetent Judge to perpetually deny Justice; or that used to be the case 10 years ago, but not any more with the advent of the creation of the Supreme Court the entire balance of power within the English/UK Judicature has now been permanently altered.

With the advent of the Supreme Court the whole pecking order of this ‘time immemorial’  flawed English ‘system of Justice’, open to secret manipulation, changed; though it seems 10 years later the Judiciary want to keep that fact from Litigants-in-Person and the Public at large; the Supreme Court have PR work to do here…

Court of Appeal ~ England .

Even today the Lord Chief Justice is reported as the No:1 Judge in the UK and the Master of the Rolls as No:2; but that is simply no longer true…

The highest and thus the most powerful Judge in the UK is the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed of Allermuir, who is supported by the ten most powerful Judges in the ‘UK’ thus England’s Lord Chief Justice is the 12th most powerful Judge followed by the 13th the Master of the Rolls though both Scotland and N.Ireland Judges might well give the current holders, as we shall see, a ‘run for their money’ in terms of common decency and integrity.

The diminution of the English judiciary to a subordinate role below the Supreme Court is well deserved, if the Bugler’s experience is anything to go by; because looking at the corrosive experience at the hand of an incompetent, if not corrupt judiciary and its inclusive corrupt Registry at the English Court of Appeal draws the managerial comment from the Bugler and his comrades that they could not even be seen to organise their corruption properly; put more tersely as, ‘failed to organise horse manure on a shovel’.

Neither can the English Court of Appeal be allowed to dump its unaddressed work load of incompetence on the doorstep of the Supreme Court; a managerial overhaul is clearly long overdue (by 10 years at least) starting at the top.

And so having failed the ‘horse manure shovel test’ and with it no formal written decision of any sort on whether or not disabled FSV~FMG case and he, was to receive his Article 6, Right to Human Justice and a Fair Trial; and with not even an Agincourt Salute, it was off to the Supreme Court.

Meantime, if Dear Reader you are bedbound and bored you might like to read how the UK Judiciary is ‘organised’ which is rather an oxymoron, but do let the Bugler know if you spot any reference whatsoever to the provision of Justice to mere mortals, or even reference to mere mortals, for thus far the Bugler has failed, Go Here.

Next to  a ‘review’ of the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain criminal in terms of the  ‘decency’ and ‘integrity’ tests of those at the English Court of Appeal we had the misfortune to deal with, Go Here.

Lord Reed of Allermuir ~ President of the UK Supreme Court.

Who is he? What does he stand for ? Is he ethical and humanly decent and does he actually stand for Human Rights which he espouses to, in an ad hoc committee at the European Court of Human Rights to which the UK remain signed up for; or is he all just more ‘window dressing’ and just more of the same ?

Before we let Lord Reed speak for himself perhaps we should respectfully remind him, if he needs such a reminder, that a significant number of disabled Scots, Irish, and Welsh Firefighters, Widows and their Beneficiaries are included in those 11,000 the Bugler fights for…

So let Lord Reed speak for himself which he did as Deputy President in a delivered 10th Anniversary speech (2019) on the creation of the Supreme Court which at times naturally displays his pride in his native Scotland and its current nationalism.

We are encouraged by what he had, and has, to say; but let us not rush to hasty disappointments as we did previously with the likes of MoR Vos. Go Here.

Aaah, the inestimable Lady Hale…

A Yorkshire Lass through and through, second only to Lancashire Lasses, appointed as the First female (2009) and subsequently as Lady President of the UK Supreme Court 2017~2020 (Rtd)…

Lady Hale’s outstanding ambition for the UK Supreme Court is for it to attain ethnic diversity and a gender balance of 50% membership of the Justices which remains the objective of the current President.

Lady Hale, continuing, on her favourite ‘hobby horse’ in a public statement at a Girton College Cambridge Lecture entitled “100 Years of Women in Law” described the “Brenda Agenda” (a neologism coined by her Supreme Court colleague Lord Hope) as… “quite simply, the belief that women are equal to men and should enjoy the same rights and freedoms that they do; but that women’s lives are necessarily sometimes different from men’s and the experience of leading those lives is just as valid and important in shaping the law as is the experience of men’s lives.”.

Earlier in 2018 the Lady demonstrating her renowned pragmatism sounded a cautionary note  saying the following … ” Hale called for a more balanced gender representation on the UK’s highest court and swifter progress promoting those from minority ethnic backgrounds and with “less privileged lives”…
However, Hale objected to the notion of positive discrimination because “no one wants to feel they have got the job in any way other than on their own merits”.

The Bugler, much earlier, based on his direct experience in the Fire Service confirmed that political knee jerk reactions to  ethnicity criticism seldom, if ever, work. The ill thought through rapid appointment of the first woman ~ Cotton ~ appointed as the Chief Fire Officer of London provided the debacle experience which had been foretold; with the recent resounding echo of the Falk Affair at the Court of Appeal which harms not only the individual but the very rightful cause they aspire to serve…

One cannot hand a trainee pilot a D-I-Y manual and expect that trainee, the following day, to fly a ‘Jumbo’ to New York.

It took the Bugler 20 years in a multi-disciplined appoach to his career to attain the (Roman Empire~Vigilium) Laurel Wreaths on his shoulder rank markings, but by about which time, he had a reasonable thought that he knew what he was doing, including, how to handle power in man-management which the Courts do very badly.

Now back to Lady Hale as she provides milestones in the 10 years since the birth of the UK Supreme Court under PM ‘Tony’ Blair. Go Here.

Clearly at an early point there was a loyalty ‘issue’ with regard to some of the ‘staff’ and one must include individual  ‘Law Lords’ who were moved from the House of Lords to the Supreme Court. The issues included where the lay staff’s loyalties lay, to the HoL or the Supreme Court and the Parliamentary pay or the Civil Service Pay and Conditions and like their ‘noble’ Law Lords whether or not some of them continued to, and were able to, serve their loyalty to Freemasonry?

This will be a continuing vulnerability for the Supreme Court which is currently being exploited at the Supreme Court with another surreptitious movement by this organisation , a corrupt Masonic movement which will always be erosive of the Court’s impartiality, integrity, and ultimately Justice by George Ian Duncan Smith.

Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, or if you prefer, in the ancient  language of Ireland Gaeilge na hÉireann; in Scotland(Gàidhlig) ; and in the Isle of Man(Gaelg);

Brion of An Tamhnach Mhór (Brian (The Noble) of the Great Cleared Field), his language with which he was familiar from his days at the august seminary of Saint Colman’s in Newry County Down who fielded a GAA football team  with which the Bugler from time to time clashed successfully on the battle ground…the College failed to teach these embryonic monks the civilised rules of the game…

In his eulogy on his friend Brian,  Lord Reed, spoke of... Go Here.

But now the Unspoken Words…

In 1948 Mr. Brian Kerr, a (9 county) Ulsterman was born and brought up in Lurgan, Co Armagh.

His mother, Kathleen, (nee Murray), was a teacher.

His father, James, qualified as a solicitor but was unable to practise, and so he worked as a bicycle salesman; he passed away when Mr.Kerr was 10.

Lurgan; Lurg-valli-vackan; Lorgan bhaile mhic Cana ‘the ridge of Mac Cana’s settlement’; first appears (it was there for millennia) on the 1609 English map of West O’Neil’s land of Clandeboye (Bangor), the mighty O’Neil Clan (later dispossessed)…

Lurgan, lying on the south eastern shores of Lough Neagh (the largest lake in Europe) was famous for its eels and trout; its linen; sleans (a special turf cutting spade; and a greyhound called Master McGrath.

On its darker, more sinister side, it was infamous (it was not alone) for its racist and religious discrimination but today as the demographics continue to shift this small town is euphemistically referred to as an ‘interface’.

Most nationalists from Lurgan sought their education and ultimately their career opportunities elsewhere in the world.

Much in eulogy has been spoken, rightly, of Mr. Kerr’s personal qualities especially those of incisiveness where right and wrong, Human Rights, Justice  and dignities were involved.

He was an ardent defender of the individual’s rights of all genders, including children.

But then if you have been born into racism and daily discrimination and lived it, none are ever likely to forget its raging emotional impact and its all pervasive sense of injustice; an impact for life.

An ‘appreciation’ for the plight of the black person, the Palestinian, the discriminated, comes easily as does the perpetual passionate quest for Human Rights , dignities , and especially fair play and Justice.

Having achieved the opportunity to ‘change the rules’ back to where they ought to have been all along, was an opportunity not to be ignored, nor did Mr.Kerr do so…

An Ulsterman, as usual, of a strong, trenchant,  and independent streak who was prepared to expound his distinctive points of view, even if no one else was quite prepared to share them; views on occasion, delivered with an impish sense of humour, whilst challenging the status quo…

Although hardly a rebellious radical he was more determined than most to correct injustice where ever he saw it and in effect he became the human conscience and Public face of an otherwise sterile Court.

A kindly, modest, and decent man of the utmost integrity, who even his naturally implacable Republican opponents declared, was a “good man” …

The Bugler was born and reared in Lurgan in 1943…