Below is copied my damages claim made against the Durham County Court. The court has ignored this claim and has not even acknowledged receipt of it. I do not think that the present manager of that court has made the decision not to acknowledge receipt of it on his own. Facts show that judicial corruption is being protected by high level court authorities.

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The Manager

The Durham County Court 16A The Lyons

Hallgarth Street, Hetton-le-Hole,

Durham, Tyne-Wear DH5 0HT.

26th February 2002.

My Ref: MK/DCC/01

Dear Sir

On November 10th 1992 Deputy District Judge Baird, sitting at the Durham County Court, heard my appeal from the ruling of District Judge Scott-Phillips under case number 9202063. As you will be aware such an appeal is unlawful. That appeal should have been heard by the higher court. There was an attempt to conceal that unlawful appeal heard under those circumstances. There is documentary proof of that crime available. Later the then Durham County Court Manager, Mr I. Cuthbertson, claimed in a letter to me that the appeal had been listed before Deputy District Judge Baird in error. It is my understanding that a Deputy District Judge is not allowed to hear any appeal let alone that from a higher court. In these circumstances there could not have been any error attached to those unlawfully conducted appeal proceedings which took place before Deputy District Judge Baird on November 10, 1992. At the time the Deputy District Judge heard that appeal he would have been fully aware that it was unlawful by reason that he had no authority to hear it. No action was taken against Deputy District Judge Baird despite the then Court Manager Mr I. Cuthbertson being fully aware of the facts surrounding what was none other than a serious criminal act that had been carried against me by Deputy District Judge Baird.

In 1992 Deputy District Judge Baird sat at the Newcastle County Court in the matter of case number NE401650. My wife was refused access to his chambers despite my having severe problems with rheumatoid arthritis where I had required her assistance. Access to those chambers was allowed to a Mr Kevin Kerrigan and professor Kenny both then employed at the University of Northumbria Law School. When I entered those chambers I did not recognise Deputy District Judge Baird as the same person who had previously unlawfully heard my appeal in the case of 9202063 mentioned above. If I had recognised him I would have objected to him being involved in case NE401650. I had previously exposed his criminal act in the matter of the unlawful appeal mentioned above and he could not in any event have been considered to have been impartial to the proceeding before him on that day in the matter of case NE401650. He had previously shown that he was unfit to rule in any case due to what amounted his very serious criminal act detailed above. Deputy District Judge Baird invited professor Kenny to give his opinion on the matters before him. It was reasonably clear that it was Mr Kevin Kerrigan who was acting as the advocate of the Plaintiff, Miss Shirley Carr, at those proceedings. By inviting professor Kenny to give his opinion on the matters to be decided during the proceedings at that time was a further gross breach of rules and additional serious misconduct that was carried out by Deputy District Judge Baird.

Miss Shirley Carr was at that time unable to submit any evidence whatsoever that she had any title whatsoever to the land subject of case NE401650. I provided Deputy District Judge Baird with two statutory declarations as evidence that both myself and my father had lawful title to the land which Deputy District Judge Baird failed or refused to take into consideration. Instead, Deputy District Judge Baird ordered that Miss Carr be allowed to remove a fence which I had erected along the boundary of the land subject of case NE401650 with the lull approval of my father Mr William Kellett now deceased. He also granted an injunction in the favour of Miss Shirley Carr preventing me from returning back onto or re-occupying the land subject of case NE401650. I had in those circumstances been subject of a ruling under case number NE401650 by a judge who had previously carried out a serious criminal act under case number 9202063 which I had previously exposed. In the circumstances, Deputy District Judge Baird was not a fit person to rule on any civil case and appropriate action should have been taken against him following my having exposed his serious criminal act detailed above under case number 9202063.

  1. In the matter of case numbers NE401650, DH400950 and DH400898 it was District Judge Cuthbertson who, in 1995, granted a far reaching injunction in the favour of Miss Shirley Carr which prevented and deterred me from collecting any further evidence for use in the above cases. By that time Miss Shirley Carr had already been allowed the use of material perjury which had been ignored by judges at the Durham County Court. The evidence of that perjury remains and some of is under publication. The injunction was granted by District Judge Cuthbertson at a time when I was not present and had not been informed by the Durham County Court of when it was to take place. Solicitor Alison Stott attended the Durham County Court with Miss Shirley Carr on the day the injunction of which I refer was granted in October of

1995. District Judge Cuthbertson had given work for solicitor Alison Stott to carry out and then adjourned those proceedings. Sometime later that same day solicitor Alison Stott had returned to District Judge Cuthbertson whereupon he granted the injunction of which I refer which, according to solicitor Alison Stott, was granted because I was not present at the court. As I have previously stated, I had not been informed of when those proceedings were to recommence. Under that injunction, so granted under improper conditions, I was imprisoned in July of 1996 at Durham for the alleged breach of it, where I then suffered a stroke.

3)Solicitor Nancy Bone, then with offices at Gilesgate, Durham, withheld my files from me by lien in the matter of cases NE401650, DH400950, DH400898. Under the suggestion of District Judge Jones sitting at the Durham County Court , I applied for an order of the Durham County Court to be able to attend the offices of solicitor Nancy Bone to take copies from my files. The order was made by District Judge Scott-Phillips that I be allowed to attend the offices of Nancy Bone to take copies from my files. Nancy Bone breached that order. I referred that breach to the then Durham County Court manager who I believe was Mr I. Cuthbertson. In a later telephone conversation with me he told me that District Judge Scott-Phillips had told him that he had not made an order that I be allowed to attend the offices of Nancy Bone to take copies from my files. He had claimed that my attendance at the offices of Nancy Bone was only with the permission of Nancy Bone. When eventually solicitor Nancy Bone was struck from the register of solicitors for serious misconduct in other clients matters, my files which she had withheld from me by lien were returned to me. In those files were documents where she confirmed that District Judge Scott-Phillips had granted an order to allow me to attend at her offices to take copies from my files. In the circumstances my files were never available to me throughout the duration of cases NE401650, DH400950 and DH400898 which continued in both the Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne County Courts which caused me very serious harm and damage.

4) At a directions hearing held in January 1996 at the Newcastle County Court before then recorder John H. Fryer-Spedding in the matter of cases NE401650, DH400950 and DH4OOS9S solicitor Alison Stott previously referred to herein, declared to the court that she had not been acting for Miss Shirley Carr but had only been assisting her. There were other witnesses to that declaration and it was subject of affidavits lodged with the Durham County Court.

During the period of time solicitor Alison Stott had been assisting Miss Shirley Carr, as she had so confirmed by her declaration to the Newcastle County Court in January of 1996, she had accepted work from the Durham County Court of preparing the judges bundles (documents) ready for trial She then secretly passed on that work for Miss Shirley Carr herself to carry out. Miss Shirley Carr then omitted from the bundles which she had prepared material documents. One such material document was the refusal of her application for consolidation of the three above cases NE401650, DH400950 and DH400950 by the Durham County Court by an order made by District Judge Scott-Phillips sitting at the Durham County Court on 1st June 1994. Both myself and Mr Hunt the Durham County Court Manager in the year 2000, searched the court files for the authority regarding the preparation of the judges bundles ready for trial. There was no such authority on those files.

5) In October of 1996 recorder John Fryer-Spedding tried the three above named actions at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne County Court. He falsely alleged that they had been subject of a consolidation order and then tried the three actions as a single case as if they had been subject of such consolidation order . A) . In those circumstances, my case notes which I had previously prepared became useless.

Under Supreme Court Rules a judge is required to see such order of consolidation of cases before trying them that way. For recorder John H Fryer-Spedding to have falsely alleged that the three above cases had been subject of consolidation was nothing other than an act of fraud. Throughout the proceedings then being heard before him in October of 1996 at the Newcastle County Court, recorder John H Fryer-Spedding continued with a catalogue of acts which are clearly shown by evidence to have been deliberately intended to pervert the course of justice which is actually what then took place. Some of these such acts are detailed in my Statement of Truth signed by me on the 29th of September 1999 of which a copy is attached hereto.

6) Under the costs awarded against me by then recorder John H Fryer-Spedding was adjudged bankrupt by the Durham County Court in March of 1999. At an aborted hearing for my alleged bankruptcy, due to improper procedure by those representing Miss Shirley Carr in her application for my bankruptcy, District Judge Jones told me several times throughout that hearing that I had upset District Judge Cuthbertson. He could not in those circumstances have been considered to have been impartial to the proceedings before him. Later at another hearing, it was District Judge Jones who adjudged me bankrupt.

 7) My attempts at a just resolution of the above facts through the appeal system have all failed. Lord Justices Auld and Pill refused my application for leave to appeal the judgement of recorder John H Fryer-Spedding. They cannot reasonably be considered to have been impartial, under the terms of the European Human Rights Convention, in the matter of what amounted to judicial crimes as detailed above.

8) It has been confirmed in a letter dated 16th November 2001 sent from the Rt.Hon. Baroness Scotland QC Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellors Department, to Member of Parliament Mr Fraser Kemp, that complaints regarding the personal conduct of a judge can be dealt with by the Lord Chancellor. The Rt Hon. Baroness excludes criminal acts carried out by such judges which have resulted in the perversion of the course of justice such as that detailed above and within my Statement of Truth signed on 29th September 1999. It is my understanding from Mr Fraser Kemp MP, that he had supplied a copy of my Statement of Truth signed by me on the 29th September 1999 to the Rt.Hon. Baroness Scotland. Both myself and Mr Fraser Kemp MP approaches to both the Home Office, the Parliamentary Commissioner along with the Lord Chancellors Department has resulted in those authorities all denying any responsibility in the matter of judicial crime as detailed above. It is clear in these circumstances that the rule of tyranny is being protected by the very United Kingdom authorities who are in place to protect the general public from such rule.

Mr Fraser Kemp MP up to this present time, has been unable to detail to me any " independent and impartial tribunal" as required under the European Human Rights Convention in the determination of my civil rights regarding the judicial crimes detailed above which have been used against me. The Prime Ministers Office has also detached itself from any liability under the above detailed acts of tyranny.

Given the facts detailed above and within my Statement of Truth signed by me on 29 September 1999, there is also the matter of treason carried out by the acts I have detailed.

9) In the circumstances which I detail above, I make a claim for damages from the Durham County Court. The damages that I claim from the above court relate to both special and ordinary damages of which I detail below.

A) General Damages.

I have suffered torture, pain, distress, anxiety, and a substantial deterioration of my general health as a result of the above detailed acts of crime carried out against me by the various judges whom I have named herein. I have since 1996 had little choice left open to me but to spend many thousands of hours seated in the preparation of notes, files etc., in attempts at obtaining a just resolution of the judicial crimes detailed above. This has been very damaging to my medical conditions particularly in the matter of rheumatoid arthritis. The stress placed upon my thirty year marriage as a result of the judicial crime and misconduct used against me was a major contributory factor in the destruction of it in 1998. I suffer serious life threatening illnesses which had required my wife’s assistance. Due to the destruction of my marriage as a result of the serious stress placed upon it by the above detailed judicial criminal acts, my suffering has increased considerably where at times, due to a very serious health problems but particularly with rheumatoid arthritis, I have been unable to carry out essential needs which I have required such as medication for other serious health problems at times that I have not been mobile, thus placing my life in danger.

Recorder John Fryer-Spedding’s judgement based on his use of fraud etc., as detailed above and within my Statement of Truth signed by me on the 29th September 1999 allowed Miss Shirley Carr to drain the rear of her property onto the rear of my home number 16A The Lyons, Hetton-le-Hole. At the time he ordered that such drainage could take place, he was fully aware that the drains on the rear of number 16A The Lyons could not cope with the combined drainage from both Miss Shirley Carr’s property number 16 and my property number 16A. This fact is confirmed by means of recorder John H Fryer-Spedding’s own approved transcript of judgement. Several times since my wife left this address in 1998 flooding has occurred at the rear of my home resulting in water entering beneath the floors of it. Previously my wife had to resort to the baling out of water to prevent that from happening. That also placed further stress on my marriage: While it is shown by recorder John~Fryer-Spedding’s approved transcript of judgement that both my father and I clearly had fulfilled the requirements of the Limitations Act in the matter of the land subject of case number NE401650, he allowed the continuation of the situation allowed by Deputy District Judge Baird who had previously carried out a serious criminal act at Durham County Court detailed above, in preventing my and my fathers lawful re-occupation of that land and my exclusion from it. While recorder John H Fryer-Spedding agreed that Miss Shirley Carr had no title to that land, and this is confirmed by his own approved transcript of judgement, she has been allowed to register it in her sole name at HM Land Registry. That has amounted to theft of my and my late fathers property. The land subject of case NE401650 had also comprised as the only practical way to rear of my home and gardens to service them for at least around some one hundred and fifty years. Recorder John Fryer-Spedding falsely alleged that our right of way across the rear garden of Miss Carr’s property, number 16 The Lyons, came to an end because it had not been recorded in the conveyances of that property. The recorder was fully aware of Section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925. Evidence clearly shows he ignored it for his purpose of further perverting the course of justice. The result is that since the ruling made by Deputy District Judge Baird in 1994 the only way to service the rear of my home and its gardens has been by means of passage through the living room of my home. That was also a source of distress for my wife who held the responsibility in trying to keep our home clean. The build up of refuse in the rear garden of my home has continued since 1994 and it is no longer possible to service the rear of my home due to the various facts involved with the only route now available being to carry it out being by means of access through the living room of my home. My health problems mean that I already have extreme difficulty in keeping my home clean without the added problem of garden refuse being transported through it and all of the consequences thereby arising. The driveway at the front of number 16 The Lyons, was a joint driveway also to number 16A The Lyons at the time my wife and I purchased the property number 16A The Lyons in February of 1976. It had comprised as the joint driveway of both properties since at least before the turn of the twentieth century. Miss Carr has been allowed to fence off that driveway thus preventing my access to number 16A The Lyons by that means. Recorder John H Fryer-Spedding told me that it was his intention to deprive me of my rights. This fact is also confirmed by his own approved transcript of judgement. The results of recorder John Fryer-Spedding’s perverse judgement which continued with his use of fraud, has left me with a continuing life of extreme suffering and misery where my health continues to be severally affected by it. In the circumstances of the above acts of crime, and others not detailed above, but in other documentation already on the Durham County Court files, amounting to nothing less than the rule of tyranny, has been a gross breach of both my rights under European Human Rights Convention and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

Within hours of the publication on the front page of the Sunderland Echo newspaper of my alleged bankruptcy and the fact by virtue of the bankruptcy ruling engineered from the costs awarded against me by recorder John H. Fryer-Spedding, I was no longer allowed to remain as a Hetton-le-Hole Town Councillor, a bankruptcy which had been obtained by the use of the various criminal acts detailed above of which fraud was one such serious criminal act, my father collapsed and died. He had been extremely upset at the publication. That caused me added considerable suffering.

In the circumstances of the above and by reason there is no independent and impartial tribunal as required under the European Human Rights Convention, in which I can seek a just resolution to the above matters concerning the use of judicial crime and misconduct and the use of material perjury used by Miss Shirley Carr and others ignored and allowed by the various judges sitting on the above named cases, I claim from the Durham County Court for both its use of judicial crime and its clear intent to ignore the existence of it, the following sum.

GENERAL DAMAGES CLAIMED

FROM THE DURHAM COUNTY COURT £1000.000

Ordinary Damages.

In the circumstances that following the bankruptcy which had followed the use of fraud and further deliberate acts to pervert the course of justice by recorder John H Fryer-Spedding and others judges named above, land and property belonging to me was seized by the Official Receiver. I have spent many thousands of hours seeking and trying to obtain the just resolution of my rights under the above crime used against me. There has been no independent and impartial authority established by law as required under the European Human Rights Convention where I can refer the matter of judicial crime and misconduct detailed above in an attempt to obtain a just and final solution to my continual suffering resulting from the crimes I detail herein. This has only resulted in a continuation of attempts to obtain a just solution from authorities who are clearly not impartial in the matter of judicial crime and misconduct. My approaches to Durham Constabulary on the matter of the judicial crimes detailed above resulted in them telling me that when a judge lies it is a judicial decision and is therefore protected by law. That cannot be considered under any circumstances to the true and acceptable situation existing in any truly democratic society.

In the above circumstances I claim from the Durham County Court special damage in the sum detailed below.

SPECIAL DAMAGES. £300.000

I would request your reply to the above facts and my above claims for damages from the court within ten days of the date of this claim.

Yours sincerely

 

Mr Maurice Kellett.