Newry Court : Private Criminal Prosecutions

Dear Sir or Madam,

By way of explanation for this request under FOI legislation the
following is the text of a letter recently sent to the Ministry of
Justice, London. They didn't respond to the writer. The Northern
Ireland Office, amongst others, were consulted in 2002/3 without
useful response: The matter has not been resolved

I would appreciate disclosure of any documentation on the issue
that the Northern Ireland Office has

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The Clerk of the Court
Newry Court House 23 New Street BT35 6JD 3rd January 2008

Dear Sir/Madam

Private Criminal Prosecution

During 2003 the undersigned made various attempts to convince the
court registry that any citizen may commence a criminal prosecution
but the Registry were adamant that only the Police could do so

Correspondence to the Lord Chancellors Office/Court Service/others
failed to achieve anything

A request to be put in front of a Judge of the Court was declined

Grainne Campbell was the person dealing with the issue

I do not know if Ms Campbell is still the person in charge, if so
please excuse me not addressing this letter direct

Will you please confirm whether the policy of the Court is still to
refuse to process private criminal prosecutions

D A Schiller
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Sincerely D A Schiller

Dear FOI Team,
Thank you for your attention in this matter: I have done as you
suggest.
Perhaps, as the Northern Ireland Office and bearing in mind the
matter I have raised, you may also wish to check that the local
courts are implementing the law of the land correctly?

Regards, David Schiller

Dear FOI Team,

I refer to my request and your response that "we have searched our
records and have established that we do not hold any information
relating to your request"

I realise that my request was about the Newry court and perhaps I
should have been less specific.
Perhaps I could ask you to check any information/documentation you
may have in relation to what follows? (If you would prefer I will
make a separate request and/or copy the correspondence referred to,
to you)

According to my records the Lord Chancellor's Department
'transferred' a letter I had sent to the PM (Blair) and which he
had transferred to them, to you!!
The letter to Tony Blair was dated the 20th February 2003 and that
from the LC dept. to your office would have been the 25th (or
thereabouts) March 2003 (their ref: 61801-1)

I do not think you you responded to the issue originally raised
with the PM or contacted me on the issue and I would appreciate if
you could check whether you took any action?

It is appreciated that the actual issue was probably not one
appropriate to your office but since the LC dept chose to deal with
it as they did, I have to check with you.

Regards, David Schiller