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	Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hutton was born in Belfast and studied at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford before returning to Belfast to become a barrister (after study at Queen's University, Belfast), working as junior counsel to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.
		On March 21, 2002 Lord Hutton was one of four Law Lords to reject David Shayler's application to use a 'public interest' defence as defined in section 1 of the Official Secrets Act at his trial.
		Lord Hutton was appointed by the Blair government to chair the inquiry into the death of the British scientist Dr David Kelly at the heart of the September Dossier controversy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Hutton_of_Bresagh (742 words)

	law lord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For example, the Lords were asked to decide whether General Pinochet who was the former head of state of Chile had state immunity from prosecution on torture charges when he was detained in the United Kingdom.
		The House of Lords is the highest court in England, but has no power to declare laws invalid or unconstitutional, as do supreme courts elsewhere, due to the doctrine of the Supremacy of Parliament.
		The senior judge and president of the appellate committees is the Lord Chancellor who is also speaker of the House of Lords and a minister in the cabinet.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Law_Lord.html (753 words)

	Public inquiry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An inquiry is usually chaired by a well-known and well-respected member of the upper echelons of British society, such as judge, lord, professor or senior civil servant.
		Hutton Inquiry - an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the suicide of weapons of mass destruction expert David Kelly.
		Chaired by Lord Hutton of Bresagh, announced August 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_inquiry (570 words)

	: : Hutton appointment smacks of cover-up
		However, Hutton's appointment, to those who know of his previous dealings in relation to the Six Counties, is likely to raise further questions over what is already a very murky and puzzling ordeal.
		Hutton wrote to the then British Attorney General, warning that, "If you decide to remove the requirement for a declaration it will appear that you are - being influenced by political pressure to alter the procedure relating to an office which links Northern Ireland with the Crown".
		Also in 1999, Hutton was one of the law lords who ruled that the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet should receive immunity from arrest and extradition for crimes against humanity.
	www.ballotpaper.org /archives/000102.html (517 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Judge trains independent eye on storm
		Under the Diplock convention, Lord Hutton was acting as judge and jury on whether Nash was guilty of a string of charges, including plotting to murder four judges.
		Lord Hutton was made a QC in 1970, and was a senior Crown counsel from 1973 to 1979.
		Lord Hattersley, writing in the Guardian this week, questioned whether Lord Hutton had been chosen precisely because he was unlikely to produce a clear-cut judgment.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=827362003 (1192 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Yesterday Lord Hutton signalled his intention to delve into the heart of the decision-making processes in Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence that led to Dr Kelly's exposure as a source for the BBC, and the resulting public humiliation that appears to have contributed to his suicide.
		Lord Hutton of Bresagh is regarded as a meticulous lawyer.
		Lord Hutton also cited a letter from Mr Hoon to the BBC chairman on July 8 in which he offered to give him Dr Kelly's name if Mr Davies would immediately confirm or deny the scientist as Mr Gilligan's source "in the interests of resolving what has become a management problem for both our organisations".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/02/nkell102.xml (1273 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lord Hutton said "public confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be shaken" if Lord Hoffman’s ruling was not overturned.
		Hutton’s verdict was a resounding “No.” He has come down squarely in favour of a quasi-dictatorial form of government, in which those who hold power are not answerable for their actions to the people.
		Hutton also concluded that Kelly was “partially responsible” for his own misfortune, underscoring the ruthlessness of the British state, even against one of its own.
	www.irelandsown.net /hutton.html (2530 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| Establishment judge who won't just toe the line
		Baron Hutton of Bresagh, knight of the realm, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, treats his duty as a public servant with deadly serious ness, and his distinguished career speaks for itself.
		Hutton was in a Protestant middle-class area of north Belfast in 1931.
		Hutton provoked republican fury two years later by acquitting an RUC constable of the manslaughter of Sean Downes, who had been shot at very close range by a plastic bullet during a rally two years earlier.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /hutton/story/0,13845,1136419,00.html (960 words)

	Indymedia UK - The magician who turned it all round for Blair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The honourable Lord Hutton retires this week after clearing the Government of wrongdoing in the unfortunate death of outspoken weapons expert David Kelly and dealing a blow to the left wing lunacy of the BBC.
		Known as Baron Hutton of Bresagh to his republican friends in Ulster, he was instrumental in defending the army during the troubles.
		Hutton said that "public confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be shaken" if Hoffman's ruling to extradite Pinochet went ahead.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/02/284960.html (655 words)

	Slavishly loyal to his masters\|7Feb04\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		BARON HUTTON of Bresagh was appointed to head the inquiry into the death of David Kelly by Lord Falconer, a close friend of Tony Blair.
		Hutton helped to ensure that she was sentenced to six months in jail.
		But Hutton told the coroner, "It is not for you or the jury to express such wide-ranging views, particularly when a most eminent judge has spent 20 days hearing evidence and come to a very different conclusion." The Widgery inquiry was another whitewash.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=615 (702 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Q&A: The Hutton report
		Lord Hutton's report, 328 pages in all, criticised the reporting of BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan, saying that allegations he made against the government were "unfounded".
		Lord Hutton also criticised the management of the BBC saying it failed to check the details of Mr Gilligan's story as soon as the government complained that it had raised grave charges against them.
		Lord Hutton spent the first part of the inquiry establishing a chronological record of what happened, with relevant parties questioned by the inquiry's legal representative.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3114489.stm (619 words)

	The Disgraceful Hutton Whitewash - A Set-Up From Day One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lord Bingham of Cornhill said: "Despite the high importance attached to it, the right to free expression was never regarded in domestic law as absolute." The European Convention recognised that it was not absolute and could be restricted if a state could show that restriction was necessary in a democratic society.
		Lord Hutton ruled that the Chilean former dictator was liable to be extadited for crimes of torture committed after 1988.
		The 72-year old Baron Hutton of Bresagh in the County of Down is married, with two daughters, and sits as a crossbencher in the Lords.
	www.rense.com /general48/whw.htm (2002 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Sitting in judgement on democracy
		With those words, Lord Hutton of Bresagh opened the inquiry into the suicide of British scientist David Kelly at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 1 August 2003.
		Hutton's rank, by contrast, comes from his being appointed by the Crown, on the advice of the equally unelected Chief Justice.
		The elevation of the law lords to pass judgement on the political process began under the Tories in the mid-1990s.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DEA9.htm (1260 words)

	Workers Daily Internet Edition Year 2003 No. 82
		Lord Hoffman had contributed to a decision that the former Chilean head of state could be arrested and extradited for crimes against humanity.
		Lord Hutton said "public confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be shaken" if Lord Hoffman's ruling were not overturned because of his links with Amnesty International.
		Lord Hutton was also involved in the ruling that David Shayler, the former MI5 agent, could not argue he was acting in the public interest by revealing secrets.
	www.rcpbml.org.uk /wdie-03/d03-82.htm (918 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lord Hutton of Bresagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC (born 29 June 1932), is a former British Law Lord.
		Later, he publicly reprimanded Major Hubert O'Neil, the coroner presiding over the inquest, when the coroner accused the British army of murder, as this contradicted Lord Chief Justice Widgery's findings [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/21/newsid_2500000/2500321.stm).
		The verdict was then overturned by a panel of seven Law Lords which included Lord Hutton [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/255976.stm), [3] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1209914.stm).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-Hutton-of-Bresagh (767 words)

	[R-G] Fw: Hutton - the deliberate cover-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lord Hutton conducted a judicial inquiry into the immediate circumstances surrounding the "suicide" of David Kelly.
		The Law-lord Hutton was part of the pprotestant establishment in Northern Ireland.
		In 1999 Hutton, now a law lord, became involved in a case brought by two lawyers, Seamus Treacey and Barry MacDonald - both of whom currently represent the families of the Bloody Sunday victims at the Saville inquiry.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2004-January/012406.html (652 words)

	Encyclopedia: Public inquiry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lord Hutton led the inquiry that concluded that Dr. David Kelly had taken his own life.
		Dr. David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq.
		Lord Hutton James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC (born 29 June 1932), is a former British Law Lord.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Public-inquiry (1033 words)

	PREVIEW: The Wreck of the BBC
		Lord Hutton concluded that Tony Blair, the British prime minister, was not guilty of lying about the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction when he made the case for war more than a year ago.
		The Hutton Report was, to read the British media, the Night of the Long Knives, the bonfire of the vanities, and the Cultural Revolution all rolled into one hideous assault on cherished press liberty.
		For Lord Hutton has exposed, from the pinnacle of independent judicial authority, the fatal flaws at the heart of the world's largest broadcaster.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=3710&R=9D1323448 (2198 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Hiding behind Hutton
		As Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, Hutton was responsible for overseeing the non-jury Diplock courts that tried and imprisoned members of the IRA who opposed the British presence in Ireland.
		Hutton, by contrast, derives his authority over the current inquiry precisely from the fact that he is an outsider, with no 'self-interest', who has never been 'tarred' by the political brush.
		They are investing their political aspirations in Lord Hutton of Bresagh, a man with real authority, who just might give Blair, Campbell and the rest the bloody noses they deserve.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DEE1.htm (1598 words)

	Indymedia UK - Who Is Hutton? - revealing history by Re-Sista! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The name of Lord Hutton, Law Lord and crossbencher, was rapidly canvassed to head the committee of inquiry examining Kelly's death.
		Hutton was no exception: educated at Shrewsbury and a Balliol man, before further studies at Queen's College, Belfast and entry to the Northern Ireland Bar.
		Hutton's appointment indicates that the Blair administration had to turn to one of the more conservative figures on the bench to head the inquiry, a lord with past links to the security services and an adept knowledge of the pressures that law and intelligence exert on each other.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/01/284545.html (3811 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		SWP member and Stop the War convenor Lindsey German claims that the Hutton Inquiry into the suicide of Ministry of Defence scientist David Kelly is itself a consequence of the anti-war movement.
		Hutton has exposed Blair's lies, and now the media is refusing to believe a word he says'.
		Surveying the placards and listening to the speakers, it became clear that this was less a political protest against the occupation of Iraq, than a frustrated tantrum born of the left's own sense of isolation and powerlessness.
	lark.phoblacht.net /whateverhappbon.html (1541 words)

	¿Quién diablos es Hutton? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		El barón Hutton of Bresagh, County of Down, Irlanda del Norte, de 72 años, es un clásico representante del establishment británico gobernante.
		Hutton pasó su carrera como juez y miembro del jurado en los tristemente célebres "tribunales canguro" [calificación coloquial de los tribunales arbitrarios, N.d.T.] de Irlanda del Norte.
		Lord Hutton dijo que "la confianza pública en la administración de justicia será debilitada" si el fallo de Lord Hoffman no era invalidado.
	www.rebelion.org /medios/040202sis.htm (603 words)

	Workers Daily Internet Edition Year 2004 No. 6
		There had been much speculation that the Hutton Inquiry might also consider the issue of whether the government had sufficient justification for the invasion of Iraq and, in particular, whether the intelligence material in the dossier published by the Government and relating to Iraq’s alleged possession of "weapons of mass destruction" provided such justification.
		However, Lord Hutton made it clear in his statement yesterday that he did not consider that these issues fell within his terms of reference.
		Another senior Judge, Lord Hoffman had contributed to the decision to arrest and extradite the notorious former dictator of Chile and mass murderer General Pinochet during his visit to Britain.
	www.rcpbml.org.uk /wdie-04/d04-006.htm (2277 words)

	Buy Hutton Inquiry Books online - selected, recommended and reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hutton initially announced that he expected to be able to deliver his report in late November or early December.
		Lord Hutton is to retire as a Law Lord following the publication of the report.
		The Hutton Inquiry, 2003-04: Extracts from the report which appeared on the Hutton Inquiry Website on 28 January 2004 (Uncovered Editions)
	www.buybookonline.net /h/hu/hutton_inquiry.html (329 words)

	Weekly News Spectrezine 30th January 2004
		Lord Hutton: Anyone inclined to take the Hutton Report with less than hypertension-provoking quantities of sodium chloride should know the following: Lord Hutton of Bresagh was formerly Sir Brian Hutton, a High Court Judge from 1979 to 1988.
		He acted in that role for the British Government when it was called before the European Court of Human Rights when the government was accused of the inhuman and degrading treatment of internees.
		In 1999 Hutton was one of the law lords who ruled that the former Chilean dictator; Pinochet should receive immunity from arrest and extradition for crimes against humanity.
	www.spectrezine.org /weeklynewsreview/wnr30,01,04.htm (1083 words)

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