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Ibori Appeals Conviction, Drags UK to European Court of Human Rights
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Esther Oluku

A former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has dragged the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, in a bid to quash his conviction by a London court.

The attestation papers, filed in this respect, were received by the European court on April 16, 2019.


The foundation of Ibori’s appeal, according to the papers filed by his counsel, rests on his claim that Britain disobeyed its own laws all in a rush to get him convicted.

His counsel argued that “this application concerns an unusual provision of United Kingdom law: s17 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (‘RIPA’).

According to the former governor’s counsel, “it prohibits any reference, in any proceedings, to an intercepted communication or its contents- e.g. an intercepted phone call – in circumstances in which its origin as an intercepted communication is disclosed or could be inferred. The United Kingdom is virtually unique in having such a provision: intercepted communications are used routinely as evidence in court proceedings throughout Europe and the rest of the world.


Ibori’s counsel alleged that the “operation of Section 17 of RIPA, as applied in the highly unusual circumstances of his case, resulted in a violation of Ibori’s rights pursuant to Article 6 of ECHR”.

He further argued that this actually is the crux of the matter, because Britain’s failure to obey its own laws has rendered every other thing that followed, including his guilty plea later, defective.

Ibori went on appeal after pleading guilty. But his counsel said, in the appeal papers filed at the European Court of Human Rights, that Ibori had pleaded guilty to criminal offences but subsequently applied for permission to appeal his convictions in light of the disclosure of new material.


According to his counsel, it is this “new material” which surfaced later that Ibori is predicating this appeal on.

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Ibori’s counsels said in the case filed at the EU Court of Human Rights that at one of the court’s sittings, “Ms Sasha WASS QC (‘SWQC’), who had previously been instructed to prosecute the applicant (Ibori), sent a note to the Court of Appeal (‘the Wass Note’).

The counsels argued that, “it was a highly unusual note because it provided information, which could easily identify the source of the new material on which the Applicant’s appeal was based. However, in a reverse twist, such disclosure is prohibited in all court proceedings by Section 17 of RIPA”.

In an effort to attempt to comply with Section 17 of RIPA for the remainder of the hearing, the Court of Appeal imposed ‘Ground Rules’ on the parties, which limited what the applicant’s counsel could refer to in his submissions.

The applicant submitted to the Court of Appeal – and submits in this application – that Section 17 of RIPA, combined with the ‘Ground Rules’, prevented him from properly developing his submissions before the Court of Appeal, adding that “as a result his appeal hearing was unfair.”

This development, it was learnt, is the major plank on which Ibori’s case rests.

The former governor appealed to the EU Court of Appeal because a London Appeal Court had refused to interrogate this submission and actually ruled that the issue of what is now known as “the Wass Note” was a no-go area.

He alleged that Britain denied him his rights to fair trial – which is recognised everywhere in the free world.

His appeal was based on the following issues: “That identified corrupt British Police Officers were responsible for the conduct of the case against him. That they deliberately withheld prosecution evidence, which had it been disclosed at the correct time would have prevented any guilty pleas being entered. That the prosecution failed to follow the legally required RIPA procedure as stipulated in British Law.”

He alleged that the Court of Appeal ruled against him and went further to refuse him leave to bring an appeal on the case they had just determined


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/19/ibori-appeals-conviction-drags-uk-to-european-court-of-human-rights/amp/

Lol

You think say nah Naija you dey ?

Wailers won’t be able to save you

sarrki:
Lol

You think say nah Naija you dey ?

Wailers won’t be able to save you

Instead of you to say no Buhari to cover him up like Gandolar

All of una never see anything. By the time this my general is properly sworn in come May 29, a lot of the looters will even be on exile in pakistan and afganistan and will still be extradited. Buhari has nothing to loose again but has everything to gain to his name and integrity. Like him or hate him, he is a different breed among our politicians. No element of diplomacy in him. He only believes in doing the right thing. Age might not be on his side anymore which pains me that we never had him at a younger age but he wont take bullshit. For all i know justice must be served. Even that deziani should be brought down now. It is time.

Thief still get mouth. It's a pity. Someone should slap his face for me

Buhari is shameless to Nigeria

Ok

He is now spending the money he was convicted for on court case.instead of planning on how to make use of the money...Thief!

Yen yen yen

Lawyers be giving him hope!

Hian.. there is a case there Sha.. great Britain shot themselves in the foot

This Fool that should be cooling off his butts in prison...

Nigeria future President.. If you know hit like button

Wahala Dey This Life o!

Lawyers must chop nah.......

I pray that he lose the appeal

Trying to quash his conviction it's like Ibori wants to run for senate or even governor again in 2023.

sarrki:

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FeaturedNigeria
Ibori Appeals Conviction, Drags UK to European Court of Human Rights
By editor - 2 mins ago


James Ibori

Esther Oluku

A former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has dragged the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, in a bid to quash his conviction by a London court.

The attestation papers, filed in this respect, were received by the European court on April 16, 2019.


The foundation of Ibori’s appeal, according to the papers filed by his counsel, rests on his claim that Britain disobeyed its own laws all in a rush to get him convicted.

His counsel argued that “this application concerns an unusual provision of United Kingdom law: s17 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (‘RIPA’).

According to the former governor’s counsel, “it prohibits any reference, in any proceedings, to an intercepted communication or its contents- e.g. an intercepted phone call – in circumstances in which its origin as an intercepted communication is disclosed or could be inferred. The United Kingdom is virtually unique in having such a provision: intercepted communications are used routinely as evidence in court proceedings throughout Europe and the rest of the world.


Ibori’s counsel alleged that the “operation of Section 17 of RIPA, as applied in the highly unusual circumstances of his case, resulted in a violation of Ibori’s rights pursuant to Article 6 of ECHR”.

He further argued that this actually is the crux of the matter, because Britain’s failure to obey its own laws has rendered every other thing that followed, including his guilty plea later, defective.

Ibori went on appeal after pleading guilty. But his counsel said, in the appeal papers filed at the European Court of Human Rights, that Ibori had pleaded guilty to criminal offences but subsequently applied for permission to appeal his convictions in light of the disclosure of new material.


According to his counsel, it is this “new material” which surfaced later that Ibori is predicating this appeal on.

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Ibori’s counsels said in the case filed at the EU Court of Human Rights that at one of the court’s sittings, “Ms Sasha WASS QC (‘SWQC’), who had previously been instructed to prosecute the applicant (Ibori), sent a note to the Court of Appeal (‘the Wass Note’).

The counsels argued that, “it was a highly unusual note because it provided information, which could easily identify the source of the new material on which the Applicant’s appeal was based. However, in a reverse twist, such disclosure is prohibited in all court proceedings by Section 17 of RIPA”.

In an effort to attempt to comply with Section 17 of RIPA for the remainder of the hearing, the Court of Appeal imposed ‘Ground Rules’ on the parties, which limited what the applicant’s counsel could refer to in his submissions.

The applicant submitted to the Court of Appeal – and submits in this application – that Section 17 of RIPA, combined with the ‘Ground Rules’, prevented him from properly developing his submissions before the Court of Appeal, adding that “as a result his appeal hearing was unfair.”

This development, it was learnt, is the major plank on which Ibori’s case rests.

The former governor appealed to the EU Court of Appeal because a London Appeal Court had refused to interrogate this submission and actually ruled that the issue of what is now known as “the Wass Note” was a no-go area.

He alleged that Britain denied him his rights to fair trial – which is recognised everywhere in the free world.

His appeal was based on the following issues: “That identified corrupt British Police Officers were responsible for the conduct of the case against him. That they deliberately withheld prosecution evidence, which had it been disclosed at the correct time would have prevented any guilty pleas being entered. That the prosecution failed to follow the legally required RIPA procedure as stipulated in British Law.”

He alleged that the Court of Appeal ruled against him and went further to refuse him leave to bring an appeal on the case they had just determined


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/04/19/ibori-appeals-conviction-drags-uk-to-european-court-of-human-rights/amp/

Ex-governor James Ibori is HIGH ON CODEINE AND TRAMADOL

He thinks he is in a Nigeria court where anything goes.

I am wondering if Ibori case will ever hold water to give him the so called dirty justice he is soliciting for.

Chief Ibori and his pdp boys who wreck the economy of Delta state is so AGELIC and above repproach.

He allegedly ? looted Delta state treasury to buy properties for himself in the United Kingdom.

He is the owner of Western Delta University Oghara along Warri Benin Expressway. He used the position of governor to acquire that long stretch of lands from the Oghara community leaving almost nothing for that community.


After looting Delta state to comatose he now have the audacity to demand for justice.

He will get a kangaroo justice from the EU court.

Maybe he has huge left over from the remainant of previous looting for which he can throw money around to hire foreign lawyers culminating in his boldness to take the matter to the EU court.

we d ppl of delta are proud of our son and leader james onanefe ibori. shebi na delta money he chop?

Quality20:
we d ppl of delta are proud of our son and leader james onanefe ibori. shebi na delta money he chop?

What do you mean by the word "we"

Stop using collective words to describe your love for a rickety common crimminal.

Who Ibori help?

mknigeriagreat:
All of una never see anything. By the time this my general is properly sworn in come May 29, a lot of the looters will even be on exile in pakistan and afganistan and will still be extradited. Buhari has nothing to loose again but has everything to gain to his name and integrity. Like him or hate him, he is a different breed among our politicians. No element of diplomacy in him. He only believes in doing the right thing. Age might not be on his side anymore which pains me that we never had him at a younger age but he wont take bullshit. For all i know justice must be served. Even that deziani should be brought down now. It is time.

the way northerners and my brother's dey praise these jihadist buhari you go think say buhari no dey when gandollar dey pack money inside his babariga

Afonja007:
the way northerners and my brother's dey praise these jihadist buhari you go think say buhari no dey when gandollar dey pack money inside his babariga

Is that you on your dp? I mean the picture?

If na you be that, since you went tribal i will be glad to say I AM NOT YOUR BROTHER SIR. AAAHHHHHHHH. LAILAI SIR . The shape of my head is convex not concave . No be the same mama born us.

Exercise in futility.

So he is not arguing that he was wrongfully convicted. No. He infact agrees that he is a thief. His only grouse is that he was forced to confess he was a thief through less than fully legal means. What rubbish!

Unrepentant thief! Were his trial in China his appeal would be in the grave. A visit to Delta State will reveal the mindless looting of its finances by Ibori and his successors in government.