Talk:Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann

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[edit] Setting aside of Lords judgment

I am unable to follow the claim in this article of an unprecedented setting aside of a decision of the House of Lords: 1) there isn't a reference either in the article or in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet%27s_arrest_and_trial 2) set aside by who? - I'm guessing set aside by the Lords

The judgement was set aside by other Lords: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd990115/pino01.htm and after, still other Lords then judged again the Pinochet case (so this makes 3 judgements by the House of Lords in the Pinochet case). Apokrif 16:53, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hoffmann not biased?

" He later went on to comment "The fact is I'm not biased. I am a lawyer. I do things as a judge. The fact that my wife works as a secretary for Amnesty International is, as far as I am concerned, neither here nor there," he told the Daily Telegraph newspaper."

I think the point is that neither his wife's work at Amnesty International, nor the fact that Hoffmann was actually biased, was decisive for setting aside the judgement: rather, it was set aside because he looked biased, or could have been biased (Lord Nolan: "In any case where the impartiality of a judge is in question the appearance of the matter is just as important as the reality"). Apokrif 16:57, 9 September 2007 (UTC)