Torquil Dick-Erikson

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The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.

Torquil Dick-Erikson

For the last 35 years Torquil has specialised as a legal journalist in comparative criminal procedure. He has been published in, amongst others, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Law Journal. He is theauthor of“The European Constitution against the British Constitution”, with a Foreword by Nigel Farage MEP, and in 2010 another booklet “The Coming Tsunami” about the very different systems of criminal justice and of policing that the UK might have thrust upon it from Brussels, with a Foreword by Christopher Gill, Hon, President, the Freedom Association.

A Sad and Sorry Page for British Justice

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Euro and Economy Foreign Affairs Democracy Alternatives to the EU Enlargement

Alexander Adamescu is to be extradited from the UK to Romania, on an accusation of having, with his late father Dan Adamescu, bribed judges in Romania in 2013, in a case concerning a construction company. He asserts that the real reason is political - that his father and he controlled an opposition newspaper, Romania Libera, and Romanian Prosecutor...

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Unpicking the European Arrest Warrant's Violation of Habeas Corpus

Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Euro and Economy Democracy Alternatives to the EU Renegotiation Enlargement

On the matter of extraditions to EU member States, the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the UK and the EU, coming into force on 1/1/21, has added the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the benchmarks of fundamental human rights. This opens new possibilities for contesting unjust and arbitrary arrest warrants from those States, as I...

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Habeas Corpus Rights Now Reclaimed - Govt. Reverses its Position on Extraditions with the 'Deal'

Friday, 29 January 2021

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Alternatives to the EU Renegotiation Enlargement

On Dec. 1st the Home Office stated to Parliament that, "There is no intention for extradition to any EU jurisdiction after the end of transition period to be made subject to a court ruling that there is a prima facie case." As I explained in https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1372705/Brexit-latest-news-EU-laws-european-arrest-war...

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Possible Threats to the UK’s National Security and to the Security of Every UK Inhabitant From a “Security Treaty” with the EU

Friday, 28 August 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Euro and Economy Foreign Affairs Democracy Defence Alternatives to the EU Enlargement

Here are some facts that we believe need to be brought to the attention of the ISC: How many in government, at any level, are aware that the European Court of Human Rights declared that up to 5 years in prison awaiting, not just trial, but a prisoner's first appearance in a public hearing in open court, is perfectly legitimate, and a "reasonable ti...

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The Deep Cultural Fault-line that is Preventing the European Continent's Political Union

Thursday, 02 April 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Euro and Economy Financial Services Alternatives to the EU

This is a letter to an old friend from my undergraduate days, who went on to be a distinguished economist, describing the EU situation today. I am publishing this letter today, nine years after I first wrote it, just after receiving the news of the anger in Southern Eurozone countries against Northern Eurozone countries, when the latter showed unwi...

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The European Convention on Human Rights has no place for Habeas Corpus

Thursday, 19 March 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Alternatives to the EU

Until recently, the ECHR was regarded as a holy cow, to be revered by all. In fact, there was never any call on, or by, any UK government up to and including Theresa May's, to withdraw the UK from the European Convention or Court of Human Rights. The only criticisms were a certain amount of – well justified – harrumphing in recent years ...

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Here Comes the European Public Prosecutor

Friday, 13 March 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Alternatives to the EU

Nobody in Britain seems to have noticed, but the first European Public Prosecutor has already been appointed.Her name is Laura Codruţa Kövesi, she hails from Romania, and her CV says she studied law at an ancient University in Transylvania.See: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eppo/ Her office is expected to start its operation in Novemb...

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Personal Freedom in Britain is Guarded by a Latin Past Participle

Friday, 13 March 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Foreign Affairs Democracy Alternatives to the EU

Arrests followed by imprisonment, in Britain, in normal times, have to be supported by evidence of wrongdoing already collected by the investigators beforehand. To make sure that this happens, Habeas Corpus stipulates that an arrested person must appear in open court within hours, or at the most a few days (or in very extreme terrorist ca...

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What is wrong with the EAW

Friday, 06 March 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Alternatives to the EU

The first mention anywhere of a European Arrest Warrant is in the text of the EU's Corpus Juris project for an embryo criminal code, where it is called a "European Warrant for Arrest". Article 24,1,(b), says "A European Warrant for Arrest, issued on the instructions of the European Public Prosecutor by a national judge (...) is valid across the who...

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Brexit Done - Bar the Shouting?

Monday, 13 January 2020

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Foreign Affairs Fishing Democracy

So, Boris Johnson has now won the election with a very comfortable majority, on a ticket to "Get Brexit Done". Corbyn has lost decisively, and Jo Swinson was not even re-elected. The SNP has increased the number of its MPs, and Sturgeon has raised her voice again to demand a second independence referendum. However she appears not to have worked out...

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How to Preserve British Sovereignty During the Transition Period?

Monday, 09 December 2019

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Foreign Affairs Democracy Alternatives to the EU

Looking ahead, let us suppose that Boris Johnson wins a majority of seats on 12th December, as hoped. He has then promised to have his "Withdrawal Agreement" Treaty with the EU ratified by Parliament, possibly by Christmas. From then on, according to some optimists, it should be plain sailing to "Brexit" on 31st January, whereupon a "Transitio...

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Dangers to National Security and Individual Freedom in Mrs May’s “withdrawal” Agreement

Monday, 03 December 2018

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Defence

Warning! If voted through, this agreement will be irreversible. Parliament will have bound its successors to the EU, possibly into the next century. Click here to read the full research The Outline Political Declaration prefacing this "deal" says we share basic values with other EU nations and reaffirms our commitment to the ECHR. This...

EU Militia on British Streets?

Saturday, 11 August 2018

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union Democracy

Of course the mere idea of armed foreign militias patrolling British streets sounds outlandish and is usually rejected by most Brits as absurd and impossible. However, let us consider the matter more closely. The EU's plan to eventually morph into a single European State was proclaimed openly by the founders, and even later by the likes of Helmut K...

Why the European Arrest Warrant is a threat to our democracy

Wednesday, 08 August 2018

Torquil Dick-Erikson

European Union

Two things that are not generally knnow about the European Arrest Warrant, and how it could be struck down... https://savebritishjustice.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/two-things-that-are-not-generally-known-about-the-european-arrest-warrant-and-how-it-could-be-struck-down/ 1. People do not realise how profoundly different the systems of criminal law use...

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