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	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Archer jailed for perjury
		Co-defendant Ted Francis was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice by a jury at the Old Bailey on Thursday.
		The second guilty verdict was on a charge that he perverted the course of justice by using a fake diary in the libel trial.
		He was cleared of a final count of perverting the course of justice in relation to a diary used in the libel case, in which he was awarded £500,000 after the Daily Star claimed he slept with a prostitute.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1424501.stm (807 words)

	Perverting the course of justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In British law, perversion of the course of justice is a criminal offence in which someone acts in a manner that in some way prevents justice being served on themselves or other parties.
		Perverting the course of justice is an offence at common law.
		It is also criminal to conspire with another to pervert the course of justice and to intend to pervert the course of justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perverting_the_course_of_justice (191 words)

	Definition of Perverting the course of justice
		In British law, perversion of the course of justice is a criminal offence in which someone acts in a manner that in some way prevents justice being served on themselves or other parties.
		Perverting the course of justice is an offence at common law.
		It is also criminal to conspire with another to pervert the course of justice and to intend to pervert the course of justice.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Perverting_the_course_of_justice (231 words)

	The CPS : Public Justice Offences Incorporating Charging Standard
		The offence of perverting the course of justice is sometimes referred to as "attempting to pervert the course of justice".
		A charge of perverting the course of justice should, however be reserved for serious cases of interference with the administration of justice.
		A charge of perverting the course of justice cannot be brought simply to avoid the requirements of corroboration of the falsity of the evidence as required by s.13: (Tsang Ping Nam v R 74 Cr.
	www.cps.gov.uk /legal/section22/chapter_a.html (7363 words)

	The Law Report - 24 July 2001 - Perjury and Perverting the Course of Justice; Anorexia and the Law
		Penalty was imposed and it was revealed that the legal practitioner knew the actual identity of the accused and the legal practitioner was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and was convicted of the offence.
		You're not permitted of course to plead not guilty to a case where you've received instructions to the contrary, you would have to disqualify, you'd have to become disqualified in the further carriage of that case.
		Of course, the downside of that is that Guardianship Boards at the end of a hearing are much more likely to leave clinicians feeling that their views weren't as fully heard or weren't as fully implemented as they would have wished.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/lawreport/stories/2001/334461.htm (3449 words)

	The Price of Justice: The Case of Neil Sayers
		This appears to be suggesting that perjury and perverting the course of justice are not acts so unfair and wrong that the court should intervene and that they do not constitute an abuse of due process of law.
		If perjury and perverting the course of justice are not abuses of due process of law it is difficult to see what could ever constitute an abuse of due process.
		As the Lord Chief Justice said, “Almost every aspect of the prosecution is tarnished.” The failure to hold the criminal justice system accountable for the persistent failings that occurred in this case is a sad indictment both of that system and the media that allow such abuses to pass without comment.
	lifeloom.com /III2Sekar.htm (1889 words)

	PoliceSpecials.com Forum -> Perverting the course of justice
		In R v Headley, it was held that failing to respond to a summons was insufficient to warrant a charge of perverting the course of justice.
		There has been comment by the courts where this offence has been used for relatively minor attempts to pervert the course of justice and it is charged alongside a offence which is serious enough to permit the offenders conduct to be taken into account when sentencing for the main offence.
		However conduct likely to pervert the course of justice is generally held to be "where a person acts or embarks upon a course of conduct which has a tendency to, and is intended to pervert the course of public justice"
	www.policespecials.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=6049 (854 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Point, counter-point in Von Cork appeal - Thursday \| January 17, 2002
		He cited several cases and told the Court of Appeal that he was unable to find any case which would put the appellants' case into the category of perverting the course of public justice.
		Henriques said that did not constitute the offence of perverting the course of public justice.
		Justice Forte had remarked earlier on during the case that the prosecution was saying that much more was done than just pleading guilty.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020117/lead/lead6.html (594 words)

	IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was of course legitimate for Irving to suggest that his account was the result of brutal pressure being brought to bear by his British captors, if he had evidence for such a suggestion.
		As I have already observed, in the course of the trial Irving modified his position: he accepted that there was at least one gas chamber (or "cellar") at Auschwitz, albeit used solely or mainly for the fumigation of clothing.
		But it appeared to me that in the course of these proceedings Irving challenged the authenticity of certain documents, not because there was any substantial reason for doubting their genuineness but because they did not fit in with his thesis.
	www.mishcon.co.uk /inp/inp_a/inp_a_pr/judgment.htm (17526 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - British vs Caribbean justice - Wednesday \| August 25, 2004
		In addition, a Resident Magistrate in Jamaica was convicted for perverting the course of justice.
		The three Commissioners who looked into this travesty of justice concluded about the rebellion that 'all that was proved was that an oath was administered, a pledge of secrecy required and the names of the persons sworn registered'.
		The commentary on the justice meted out to the fls was that the killings were 'unnecessarily frequent' and the burnings of houses 'wanton and cruel' and the floggings 'reckless and, at Bath, positively barbarous'.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040825/cleisure/cleisure3.html (756 words)

	UK National News - Bankrupt forger jailed for nine months
		A bankrupt who forged letters in an attempt to get his bankruptcy order annulled was sent to prison for nine months at Swansea Crown Court today for perverting the course of justice.
		Following a criminal investigation by the DTI, Bowyer was charged with perverting the course of public justice and four counts of using forged instruments.
		Perverting the course of public justice is so serious that the only option is imprisonment."
	www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?ID=21700 (414 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Archer jailed for perjury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Co-defendant Ted Francis was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice by a jury at the Old Bailey on Thursday.
		The second guilty verdict was on a charge that he perverted the course of justice by using a fake diary in the libel trial.
		He was cleared of a final count of perverting the course of justice in relation to a diary used in the libel case, in which he was awarded £500,000 after the Daily Star claimed he slept with a prostitute.
	212.58.240.133 /2/hi/uk_news/1424501.stm (807 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Archer loses appeal on two fronts
		THE Court of Appeal yesterday refused to quash Lord Archer’s conviction for perjury and perverting the course of justice, and then dismissed the disgraced peer's plea for the four-year sentence to be cut.
		Lord Justice Rose, sitting with Mr Justice Colman and Mr Justice Stanley Burnton, said: “The fundamental question is whether a sentence of four years for his criminality can be regarded as excessive.
		At last year’s trial, Archer, 62, was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury relating to the libel action, but cleared on a third charge of perverting justice.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=791302002 (637 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Croydon Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A MAN found guilty of perverting the course of justice has been sentenced to 100 hours community service.
		Mohammed Aziz, 24, of Swansea Road, Ponders End, crashed and overturned his car into the front garden of a house in The Ridgeway, Enfield, during the early hours of August 16 last year, but denied he was the driver when approached by police.
		He was charged with perverting the course of justice and traffic offences and pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court, where he was sentenced last Friday.
	www.croydonguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=473861 (212 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		English peer and novelist Jeffrey Archer is behind bars after a jury in London found him guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice for rigging his 1987 libel trial.
		His former friend and co-defendant, Ted Francis, 67, who had been asked to provide a false alibi for the 1987 trial, was cleared of perverting the course of justice.
		Archer, 61, who has homes in London and Cambridge, was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury, but cleared on a third charge of perverting justice.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,48908-1-9,00.html (652 words)

	Tuesday
		He was instead put on a bond of good behaviour for five years after Justice Mohammed took into consideration the man’s age, his unblemished record and the fact he had already been incarcerated for almost two years.
		In handing down sentence, Justice Mohammed told Brewster if the matter had gone to trial and he had been found guilty, he could have been sentenced to four to five years in prison.
		However, the judge said, the fact that Brewster did not waste the court’s time, had a clean record and had spent almost two years in prison because he was unable to secure bail had worked in his favour.
	www.newsday.co.tt /stories.php?article_id=20269 (343 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Gangmaster guilty of UK manslaughter
		Preston Crown Court also found Lin guilty of perverting the course of justice and facilitating illegal entry into the country after a trial lasting nearly six months.
		The court also found Lin's girlfriend Zhao Xiaoqing guilty of perverting the course of justice and facilitating illegal entry, while his cousin Lin Muyong was also guilty of facilitating illegal entry.
		Manslaughter carries a possible life jail term as does perverting the course of justice.
	english.people.com.cn /200603/25/eng20060325_253436.html (424 words)

	Encyclopedia: Perverting the course of justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	Untitled Document
		The offence consists in interfering with the administration of law; in impending and perverting the course of justice… It is not the dignity of the Court which is offended -- a petty and misleading view of the issues involved -- it is the fundamental supremacy of the law which is challenged."
		No system of justice can be effective unless a trial fair to both sides is ensured and there are many rules of law and practice intended to support this principle.
		Public faith in the proper administration of justice and in the authority of the law, which is essential for an ordered society, is of course promoted and supported in many ways.
	www.bangladeshgateway.org /contempt_of_court_body.php (1018 words)

	The Trial of Duckenfield and Murray 2000 - Hillsborough Justice Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Justice Hooper made it known to the prosecution (the HFSG) his previous role as an advisor to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to Hillsborough (remember they found insufficient evidence to prosecute anyone over the deaths of 96 football fans).
		During the course of the trial the case was reduced to one count of manslaughter.
		Hillsborough is a much bigger miscarriage of justice than two officers being offered up as a gesture of compromise to have their wrists slapped.
	www.contrast.org /hillsborough/trial.shtm (3810 words)

	LAW AND ORDER VS TRUTH AND JUSTICE PART 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Justice Michael Kirby, who was at the time acting chief justice of New South Wales and has since moved to the High Court, said Johnson had no ostensible reason for lying about her conversation with Many.
		While he died with the armed robbery charges hanging over him, he was never to be charged with the perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over Peter Bruce’s `rescue’ at Goulburn Gaol.
		In August 1991 Tom Domican was found Not Guilty of conspiracy to murder Michael Sayers, in his defence, he accused the NCA of deliberately planting shells at the scene of the crime.
	www.tomdomican.com /laworder.htm (4341 words)

	Archer loses appeal against conviction - smh.com.au
		Archer, who has homes in London and Cambridge, was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury, but cleared on a third charge of perverting justice.
		Archer's former friend and co-defendant Ted Francis, who had been asked to provide a false alibi for the libel action, was cleared at their Old Bailey trial of perverting the course of justice.
		Purnell said the decision of the judge, Justice Potts, not to sever the trial of Francis had an "unbalancing effect on the equilibrium" of the trial.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/22/1027332346625.html (386 words)

	RTÉ News: Daily Star seeking over £2m from Archer
		Mr Archer was today sent to jail for four years for perverting the course of justice and perjury.
		Lord Archer was cleared of one count of perverting the course of justice.
		The writer and former politician denied two counts of perjury and three counts of perverting the course of justice during his libel case against the Daily Star in 1987.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0719/archer.html (455 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		He was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury.
		He was sentenced to two years for the first count of perverting the course of justice, four years for a second similar charge, three years for count five of perjury and four years for count six, also of perjury.
		That he perverted the course of justice by using a fake diary in the libel trial.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/07/19/uarch.xml (1036 words)

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		The person was arrested for "Perverting the course of Justice" nothing really came of it in court.
		I would imagine that because this chap was deemed to be actively employing a system to purposefully demonstrate his ability to avoid prosecution, that the officer stopping him, used the offence of Perverting Justice to justify his arrest.
		Perverting Justice is an indictable offence (Crown Court only and very expensive).
	www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk /jamlaw.htm (2283 words)

	CNN.com - Archer jailed for libel case lies - July 19, 2001
		Archer, who served as party chairman during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, was found guilty by the jury at the Old Bailey on Thursday on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury.
		Archer was cleared of one count of perverting the course of justice.
		Retired television producer Francis, 67, was found not guilty of perverting the course of justice by providing Archer a false alibi.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/12/britain.archer.verdict (554 words)

	Archer appeals against perjury sentence - smh.com.au
		Lord Archer was today launching a courtroom bid for freedom a year into his four-year jail sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
		The multi-millionaire British novelist, who was found guilty at the Old Bailey on July 19 last year of charges relating to his successful 1987 libel case against the Daily Star, was seeking permission to appeal against his conviction on the basis that it was unsafe.
		Archer was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury, but cleared on a third charge of perverting justice.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/22/1026898966794.html (321 words)

	Man Jailed For Transsexual Killing - NTAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Halfacree, of Chelmsford, Essex, admitted manslaughter, preventing the lawful burial of a body and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
		Alison Hooley, 38, also faces an allegation of perverting the course of justice to which she has not pleaded.
		He imposed a 21-month jail term for manslaughter, a 30-month jail term for preventing lawful burial and a 30-month jail term for perverting the course of justice.
	www.ntac.org /news/01/04/08uk1.html (331 words)

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