Talk:Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton

message: Wikipedia naming conventions suggest that pages peers for life be situated at the name of the peer, and not the name of the peerage. -- Lord Emsworth 04:16, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
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This article says he retired on Jan 11. The article on the Hutton Inquiry says he retired when the report was released. Which is correct? Adam 23:54, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I replied at Talk:Hutton Inquiry. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 08:24, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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message: A history of Hutton's life, from Bloody Sunday cover up to Pinochet affair to Iraq war.
Upon his resignation as BBC chairman Gavyn Davies commented on the irreconcilable contradictions
between Hutton's "bald conclusions" and the balance of evidence presented to the actual Inquiry.
Even BBC political editor Andrew Marr comments on Huttons underlying assumptions and background,
making him more likely to believe and trust certain social groups: "again and again, he comes down on
the side of politicians and officials."
His name will be familiar to residents of the Six counties of Ulster. During the bloody thrity years war
Hutton was an instrument of British state repression, starting in the late 1960's as junior counsel to the
Northern Ireland attorney general, and by 1988 rising to the top job of Lord Chief Justice of Northern
Ireland.
Hutton spent his career as Judge and Jury in the notorious northern Ireland kangaroo 'Diplock Courts'.
These were special non-Jury courts, condemned by human rights advocates for their miscarriages of
justice. He was hated for this role by the families of the many innocent catholics wrongly convicted here.
Hutton distinguished himself after the Bloody Sunday massacre of civil rights protesters in 1972. He
played a key role in the ensuing judicial cover-up called the Widgery Inquiry which absolved British
troops of Murder. This miscarriage of justice is only now being investigated by the current Saville
inquiry.
Then in 1978 he represnted the British Government before the European Court of Human Rights,
defending it against a ruling that it abused and maltreated detainees from the conflict.
However, he will be remembered in the rest of the UK for his role in the 1999 Pinochet affair. Another
senior Judge, Lord Hoffman had contributed to the decision to arrest and extradite the notorious former
dicator of Chile and mass murderer General Pinochet during his visit to Britain.
As a law lord, Hutton led the rightwing attack on Lord Hoffman, on the excuse that Hoffman's links to the
human rights group amnesty international invalidated Pinochets arrest! Lord Hutton said "public
confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be shaken" if Lord Hoffman's ruling was
not overturned.
More recently, Hutton was also involved in the ruling that David Shayler, the former MI5 agent, could
not argue he was acting in the public interest by revealing secrets.
This history of intimate links with, and knowledge of Britains secret military intelligence operations
meant he could be a trusted pair of hands when it came to the Kelly affair  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.66.91.4 (talk) 06:40, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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