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Happy to relocate. I've lived and worked in London (11 yrs), Washington DC (6 yrs), Leeds (4 yrs) and Holland (3 months). Full driving licence. British citizen. Salary expected, based on last salaried post and current expertise, a basic of £40,000-65,000, depending on job. In summary:BSc (Hons), Uni Leeds 1980, post graduate research experience Uni Manchester 2002-2004, vocational competence and training 1980 to date, professional experience, 1980 to date. Willing to update skills professionally, academically and vocationally. ACQUITAL.
I am a former candididate in 2012 to be DGS NUJ. During that election the NUJ, of which I remain an active member, chose incorrectly to redact part of my CV in election material sent to voters for DGS NUJ. I reinstated the words. Click here to read.
CURRENTLY
I edit Science, People & Politics. I am the executive director of Science, People and Politics Ltd (Co No 0590 1911), a non-trading company acquiring capital in published copyright. Also I am since 2005 the publisher of Science, People & Politics (ISSN 1751-598x), a title I founded in 2005. See: www.sciencepeopleandpolitics.com. Part time editor Snippets of science by GC (not abandoned, but currently mothballed), Transpennine Culture and N8 Science Events. These latter three are explorations of publishing possible from the North of England and have arisen as I have sought suitable titles to place a number of stories I have come across.
I am also a freelance journalist, an author and a website manager.
See my personal and professional twitter account at: http://www.twitter.com/HelenGavaghan.
See my public profile on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/helen-gavaghan/11/96b/589
And see my WordPress blog here: http://helengavaghan.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/hustings-speech/
2002-2004 part time post graduate research student at the University of Manchester writing a transfer report from M.Phil. to Ph.D. Work in progress submitted to my research supervisor. In parallel I was developing a book concept that would have taken my Ph.D to a wider audience. Work suspended in March 2004 because of the administrative wrong doing in relationship to myself by Professor M. Worboys of CHSTM.
1997-2002 Freelance Journalist, editor, author and science writer.
Repeat clients: Nature, Science, New Scientist, The Scientist, BioMedCentral, EUMETSAT, The European Space Agency, WHO, Biofutur (French), Telecommunications Development Asia Pacific, Nature Biotechnology - once, stemming from my interactions with other Nature titles, UNESCO - once, Dorling Kindersley (contributions to the Dorling Kindersley childrens' space encyclopaedia, (editors Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest).
July 1996 to mid 1997, based in London. Editor of Clinica, a weekly business-to-business title (28 to 32 A4 pages and minimal advertising) with daily on-line output. I led a team of 9 including one US editor/correspondent. Tasks: editorial restructuring to enable shift from cut and paste, strategic thinking about the magazine's editorial direction. Commissioned initial rough redesign ideas. Liaison with advertising and marketing. Liaison with training. Liaison with HR. Liaison with recruitment: my responsibility being job descriptions, salary justification, interviewing and naming the appointee. Liaison with management. Strategic thinking about staff salaries, staff job content (remained unchanged in essence and reporting structures. My aim was to keep all staff within an agreed restructuring if at all possible and to identify training needs). All members of my staff were excellent at their jobs and flexible in outlook. I was responsible for passing the title for press. Recruited a US editor. Recruited a sub. Obtained agreement for expanded office space and oversaw move. Initiated round table discussion among all stakeholders in Clinica. Actively by my work contributed to maintaining subscriptions during changes. Favoured, quite sensibly, increased staff salaries. On the circulation list of the title's management accounts. I spoke of these accounts appropriately and favourably after leaving the title. I resigned because I was deeply and rightly unhappy about my lack of direct contact with the publisher in a changing world, which made it hard to communicate with my editorial staff. I was exhausted from second guessing his publishing intentions. Weeklies and dailies both work within real time news environments, as well as doing news analysis with longer lead time, but they move to different rythms, and the manner in which Clinica approached and combined weekly and daily reporting had - in my then view - the potential to undermine one or the other.
Subsequent relationship with the publisher, Phillip Brown of PJB Publications, were rare but genuinely wholly amicable from my perspective, with no conflict. And I definitely wish the title and company well. On leaving I immediately began to rebuild my client base and slowly again increased my profitability.
February to June 1996. Returned to the UK after five years living and working freelance in Washington DC. Completed the bibliography of my book, Something New under the Sun, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age and began job hunting.
1991 to 1995. Freelance journalist and author based in Washington DC. Freelance for New Scientist, on retainer for Nature as the biomedical research policy correspondent, recruited by David Dickson (formerly my news editor and then editor at New Scientist). This work with David Dickson at Nature was enjoyable and I gave it up reluctantly to concentrate on my research into my first book, Something New Under the Sun, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age and because the subject matters were profoundly different. I am competent to cover news or write history in both aerospace/physics and biomed/policy, but not both at the same time. I could write/cover a news beat and write history in the same topic. I did, however, keep my link to biomedical policy alive by writing a number of early news stories on a one off basis for Nature Medicine at the request of Barbara Culleton - (member of the US Intitute of Medicine) - and the first editor of Nature Medicine. Subsequently Barbara also invited me to write a news feature for Celera, which I did, though I failed dismally to get an interview with the Wellcome Trust! Washington correspendent for Le Journale Internationale de Medecine. I also contributed news and dispatches to the BBC World Service. These were routine stories such as restoration of the Enola Gay and smuggling CFCs, taking leads in the latter case from the Federal Register.
1984 - 1991: Full time staff at New Scientist. I had to apply for jobs on the magazine three times before being successful and moving from Sutton to central London. Three and a half years as technology news editor, during which time I also contributed news and news features and features (writing or editing), promoted in response to my own urging, to technology correspondent. Washington correspondent on two occasions. First, by invitation from my editor, for two months, covering for the US editor during his work sabbatical in Argentina, and then, largely at my own urging, for one year.
During the two months I made representations to the magazine's publisher at a meeting in New York for expansion of the magazine into the US. It was an idea "in the air" for New Scientist, one dilemma, as I learned, being printing press size. I prepared a report on the staffing levels and locations I thought were needed.
Responsibilities during my seven years at the magazine: running the technology section of New Scientist (three and a half years from January 1984), commissioning and editing news, commisioning and editing features, news gathering and writing, feature research and writing. Occasional acting news editor. I resigned in good order to move to Washington DC and did so wholly as an active career advancement choice. I was sad to leave New Scientist, and they have on many subsequent occasions until 2003 been a client of mine, and I hope will be so again.
1980 to 1984: editing and writing news and features for a range of trade and technical publications. Building Services and Environmental Engineer as assistant editor (monthly controlled circulation). Three months as a technical writer in Holland. Electrical Times (now closed), a weekly cc tabloid where I wrote a column and news stories. I, and my news editor and a graphic artist, developed a publishing concept about American sports played in the UK and presented our ideas to IPC magazines, but failed to win company backing. Redeployed during title closures to Electrical Review, a weekly and then part of IPC, during a company reorganisation, and then asked to work with a new editor in setting up a new launch, Electrical Review International, and acted as deputy editor because of unexpected circumstances. Providing a non-exploitative employment contract is in place, that voluntary redundancy is allowed, and that the contract is not anti-competitive, my experiences for IPC in Sutton represents my view of what constitutes flexible working. I have never taken, sought nor been offered voluntary redundancy, nor (been) made redundant.
Holiday work during all summer holidays after "0" levels and through University: Factory work for wireform in Hebden Bridge, packing eggs at Thornbers, packing dog shamphoo, bar work at two different hill top pubs, clerical work at the tax office in Bradford for three weeks, chamber maid and waitress in Wales, playgroup leader in Hebden Bridge, housekeeper and cook for a small hotel, shop work in the family shop.
JOURNALISM
See:http://www.gavaghancommunications.com/gcjournalism.html
Prior to 1984 my work was published within the trade and technical press.
For an overview of my career see: http://www.gavaghancommunications.com/gcexpertise1.html
PUBLICATIONS
Something New Under the Sun, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age. Copernicus, New York, a trade imprint of Springer Verlag (1997).
Rocket and satellite sections of The Childrens' Encyclopaedia of Space. Dorling Kindersley (1999).
Careers for scientists, a 10 000 word supplement for Nature (1999).
A History of EUMETSAT. EUMETSAT (2001).
DIRECTORSHIPS
Director Science, People and Politics Ltd. (Co. No. 0590-1911). Registered office address 165 Longfellow Court, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 5LG.
RELEVANT TO TRADE UNION EXPERIENCE.
On the second occasion (1989) I claim I was one of those instrumental in getting a second post established in Washington DC by arguing the case for the post and my own merit for the job. I faced down, representing myself to yet another publisher, the sexist accusation that I wanted the job because I was having an affair with a colleague. The accusation made was wrong. I do not think a male journalist would have had his work and aspiration undervalued by that accusation, though these days things may have changed. It is my understanding that I had my editor's backing for the case I was making. In the 1980s, and again in December 2005, no one brought to my attention that the NUJ had a rule book which, in a number of non trivial ways, is an important document. Nor was I aware the Chartered Institute of Journalists existed. I have no strong view as to whether it would help society and quality journalism for these two bodies to merge, but I do think one ought to have the option to belong to both at the same time. As a trade unionist since December 2005 I have attended a number of events at the expense of Calderdale Branch of the NUJ, but not as their representative, as well as events attended at my own expense. In the 1980s I was an MOC, participated in one constructively useful strike, represented a member with management and participated as MOC in a benefit for the miners' teenagers, accepting on behalf of the chapel a miner's lamp as their thank you gift to the Chapel/s.
NOTABLE INTERVIEWEES
Bernadine Healy, first woman director of the multi-billion dollar US National Institutes of Health, for Le Journale Internationale de Medecine.
David Cox, Detective Superintendent running the Historical Enquiries Team, for The Guardian in 2006. I, by my skill and not The Guardian, secured this interview. No money changed hands between he and I, and there was no inducement of him by me. A quote I did not get was inserted into this story and I learned of this only after publication. My anger was real and expressed, and I view The Guardian's action as vandalism. I drove and walked around Belfast in September 2004. My 2004 trip to Belfast was, in part, because for my academic research I needed a sea trip and to observe from the bow.
Clive Stafford-Smith, US lawyer and campaigner against the death penalty, for Le Journale Internationale de Medecine.
FBI specialist for a story about lie detector tests, for Le Journale Internationale de Medecine.
Professor Martin Rees (Lord Rees) in 2005, president of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, for Astronomy Now and published with their publisher's consent in Science, People & Politics.
Professor Robert May (Lord May) in 2003, president of the Royal Society, for BioMedCentral.
Lord Sainsbury in 1999, science minister, for Nature.
Alice Mahon (in 2007), former MP for Halifax and now (2011) a vice chair of CND, for Science, People & Politics.
Tilman Mohr, the first director general of EUMETSAT, for Science, People & Politics (2010) and earlier (2000), for A History of EUMETSAT.
John Morgan in 2000, the first director of EUMETSAT, for A History of EUMETSAT.
Roy Gibson, the first director-general of the European Space Agency and of the British National Space Centre, for New Scientist.
Professor Ian Fells, Newcastle University, for a story about magnetohydrodynamics, for Electrical Times or Electrical Review, or Electrical Review International.
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC
2002-2004: Part time postgraduate research student (In the US this would be known as being at graduate school) preparing a transfer report from M.Phil. to Ph.D at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. Work interrupted and ended uncompleted in March 2004 because of medical misdiagnosis and clinical negligence, still an open legal issue, and wrong doing by Professor Worboys and a solicitors' betrayal. Archives and Libraries where I undertook research in my own name and as a research student at The University of Manchester: The Royal Society of London; Nuffield College, Oxford; The British Library (government press releases); University of Manchester - original copies of The Guardian; John Rylands Special Collections; Manchester Central Library newspaper microfiche; Liddell Hart, Kings College, London; UK National Archives; Library of Congress (UN); Imperial War Museum archives in London; University of Leeds, University Library (I am a graduate of the University); British Antarctic Survey. Museums visited: Imperial War Museum, London, Greenwich and Liverpool (an exhibition about War in the Atlantic), Barometer World and the Telegraph Museum. Had the police not arrested me and the medical profession wrongly diagnosed me I would also have visited the Combined Operations Museum in Scotland. In parallel I was developing a book concept that would have taken my Ph.D work to a wider audience.
1980. BSc (hons) Biophysics, University of Leeds.
Subsidiaries, all of which took me beyond A level: Maths, physics and chemistry. Math included a basic introduction to FORTRAN related (at least in my mind) to numerical analysis. Physiology for one semester, when I refused to pith a frog because I did not think more than one animal needed to die to demonstrate what needed demonstrating, given that I would not be making a formal study of physiology, though my degree equipped me to read around the subject and, indeed, to read around many branches of science.
Elected secretary (for one year) and then president (for one year)of the Leeds University student union biophysics' society.
Member of the National Union of Students.
As taught at Leeds biophysics was a four year full time academic course with final year mini research and research techniques project and write up. The degree was about the underpinning science needed to understand the three dimensional macromolecular physical structure, structure-function relations and interactions of biological macromolecules. Though this subject has since been reorganised by the university I think this department was one of the precursors of today's rational drug design. The department was unusual in offering close to a 1 to 1 staff student ratio during much of the time I was studying there. My professional life has kept my knowledge at the cutting edge. See: http://www.gavaghancommunications.com/sosbygchomepage.html
School: St Josepth's College, Bradford (then a direct grant grammar school).
A Levels. Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Studies with language option French. One year study toward A Level Maths (pure and applied). Exams passed at the end of the first year, but I discontinued this fifth A Level because of circumstances.
O Levels. Maths (our examination board introduced calculus, and we began to make explicit the link to trigonomety and geometry), physics, chemistry, biology, history, French, Latin, scripture, English language, English literature (1973). One year formal tuition in Spanish and school exam passed, but no public exam.
Though I can read French slowly with the help of a large dictionary, and as long as the sentence construction is not too sophisticated nor the text too idiomatic, my ability would not be helpful to most employers. But I have an affinity for the language and respond well to its sound, and would be willing and able to study intensively outside work hours if the skill were needed.
Elected deputy head girl of the school and head girl of the convent boarding school (secret ballots). Initiated an anti-smoking campaign. Appointed chess captain, playing board one unless I thought it best not to. Bradford girls chess champion. Stopped playing chess in my first year at University. Member of the school choir (not a natural singer) and film club. Grades one to 8 speech and drama, with distinction at grade 6, participation and performance in numerous drama festivals. One year study toward an LRAM teaching speech and drama, undertaken privately during my first year at The University of Leeds. Tutor, Miss Mary Kilduff. Member of The Troubadors, an adult choral speaking group in Bradford.
Junior school: St Joseph's, Todmorden.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2010-2011, 40 hours of upskilling workshops, run by HMRC (the equivalent of the IRS in the US):
How VAT works;
Becoming a director (introduction to responsibilities to HMRC and a nod toward what Companies House expects);
Becoming an employer;
Statutory Sick Pay;
Statutory pay and leave for maternity, paternity and adoption;
PAYE, completing your employer annual return (p35s and p14s), P60s, p11ds and p45s, and what to do about student loans etc;
PAYE expenses and benefits: the basics;
Employers' annual returns of expenses and benefits;
Business expenses and capital allowances;
Introduction to international trade; and
the HMRC CD-ROM.
Though this CD (for very small firms) has now been superseded by a download from HMRC when one registers as an employer, the workshop was helpful in showing how the information required by the Revenue come together irrespective of company size, and the downloads can take some of the anxiety out of planning for record keeping as an employer.
Each workshop was a basic introduction of about three hours, giving an overview, and of relevance to justifying line items in a business plans. HMRC helpline information for continuing support was explained.
2010: One day with the Federation of Entertainment Unions (NUJ, BECTU and Equity) discussing copyright.
VOCATIONAL
2008 Clait Level 1 diploma (90 hours). Word, excel, powerpoint, computer art and Internet Explorer. Facility with Corel Wordperfect and notepad, email and the internet.
1995. Half of a course on news and feature making for broadcasting, in-house at the BBC World Service, sponsored by news and current affairs. And made a program based on interviews I had done in the field and from a studio in house at the BBC World Service 2005-2006 using their modern recording and program making equipment. Though not the intent this task, co-incidentally, completed the course I started in 1995!
1981 Journalism at The London College of Printing (1981), on release from Building Services and Environmental Engineering, Batiste Publishing. I also informally followed NCTJ training with my first editor. I emphasize this was informal, but real, and I have never learned shorthand, but would be pleased to do so in my own time, though my degree gave me experience taking comprehensible longhand notes.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
2009-2010: attended Business Link Workshops (about 30 hours): Though the workshops transpired to be more accurately personal rather than professional development I would not have attended the Business Link events I did attend had I not been in business, and the events had business benefit which has not yet translated into sales (and might never translate to sales) but despite no sales still was low cost business benefit. I attended also events organised by Connect Yorkshire and Yorkshire Gold. These were excellent for making contacts.
Courses late 1990s and 2000 taken, and deliberately not completed, but to explore if they might be a sensible basis for changing career: Researching business information at Bradford University and web site building with basic html at Calderdale College, Halifax. At the time I thought not given my professional background to date.
Courses taken out of interest and offering no professional or vocational qualification:
Early renaissance art, series of lectures provided by the Workers Education Authority/University of Leeds, offered in Hebden Bridge.
Great books of western literature, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Master classes in voice with the voice coach of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC (1994 ish).
HOBBIES
Webart. Supporting, through volunteer work, the Square Chapel for the Arts in Halifax. Visiting art galleries, theatre and performing arts. Reading.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Union of Journalists, member in good standing with press card valid to the end of January 2013. Currently, since 18/5/11, assistant branch secretary Calderdale branch of the NUJ. Quorate for the branch, confirmed 12th July, 2011 to be four members irrespective of committee membership status. I have been an active NUJ participant almost as soon as I rejoined the NUJ in December 2005 (repeat December, 2005).
Member of the Publishers' Licensing Society (since 2010)
Authors' Licensing and Copyright Society (since 2010).
Former Member of the Medical Journalists' Association and the Society of Authors, both of which I will rejoin when funds allow.
Resigned, I hope temporarily, in 2010 from the Association of British Science Writers in protest that they were accepting drug company money for science writing prizes, given that drug companies produce drugs administered to those caught in the folds of the immoral UK Mental Health Act. Prior to 2004 I did not know of this Act, nor its provisions, nor the distress it causes and so had happily competed for a prize, a feature on peptide nucleic acids published in New Scientist, which did not win, when Glaxo SmithKline funded the prizes. I would, however, be pleased to work on the staff of, or under contract, to drug companies, and to sign and abide by confidentiality agreements whilst continuing to campaign in my personal time for repeal of the UK Mental Health Act, and of compulsory treatment orders. For the right salary and in the right circumstances I would surrender my press card.
Wish list given my current activities: To join the Federation of Small Businesses, to learn how to be polite in Mandarin Chinese, and to learn shorthand. I can type, but have no touch typing competence.
TALKS/Public events/speeches
Hustings speech to a joint meeting of four branches of Dublin NUJ in October 2011.
Pitch for election as DGS NUJ August 2011, at a hustings at Birmingham and Coventry Branch of the NUJ.
Chaired meeting for barrister, Jane Lambert, at Leeds City Library (2010 or 2011).
Speech in May 2010 from a journalist's and editor's perspective about UK stem cell policy and ethics and their environment, given to a stem cell conference, organised in part by the University of Toronto. Declaration of conflict of interest, my air fair and accommodation costs were paid for by the meeting organisers.
Talk in December 2003 about my research to the Ph.D seminar group at CHSTM, University of Manchester.
US Budget legislative process. Lunch time speech to Halifax Rotary (sometime between 1998 and 2000).
After dinner speech to Leeds University Biophysics Society.
To sixth formers when on staff at New Scientist (twice).
Spoke by "elbowing" my way to the microphone (not as MOC) at various union meetings at Friends Meeting House in Euston, London in the mid 1980s.
VOLUNTEER WORK
I started volunteering when I was at junior school via membership of the St Johns' Ambulance brigade, though I ceased as a teenager to have any first aid skills. I would be pleased to reacquire first aid skills. At university I joined the Officer's Training Corps, but after discussion with my commanding officer chose, in a mutually agreed decision, to leave in my first term or early in my second term, and shortly after collecting my combat kit. I had refused no order, and knew of no order I would refuse. I am not a pacifist, though I respect the courage of the choice. And I understand there may be need to kill in self defence. I am not certain I know even now why I lost enthusiasm. But I did. It was not as a result of getting my combat kit. I then for no more than a year visited the elderly via the Roman Catholic chaplaincy. In Washington DC I was a volunteer science teacher, via the Roman Catholic Cathedral, tutoring people preparing for a science GED. I did this for two years but concluded that without teaching skills it was unfair to continue. Back in the UK I was a Samaritan for three and a half years before leaving to do other volunteer work, namely as a teenage mentor in schools (Todmorden High, specifically) in Calderdale and then doing bar and other voluntary work at Square Chapel for the Arts in Halifax, since 2001 or 2 (not in 2003).
REFERENCES.
Two public references can be found here: http://www.gavaghancommunications.com/gcreferences.html.
Others available on application.
AWARDS AND CONTRACTS
I won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fellowship for $125 000 in 1991 to write a history of satellites. Of this money $25 000 was held by the Foundation for me to draw down as reimbursement of expenses. $100 000 was handed to me at the end of 1991 and in early 1992 for my management. The Foundation did not interfere with my work, and the book, published in New York by Copernicus (1997), a trade imprint of Springer Verlag, was reviewed favourably by New Scientist and Nature, with one reviewer noting I had brought new material to the published literature. The book was well received both publicly and privately by organisations and individuals who gave me help when researching and writing the book.
In 1999 I won an invited competitive tender to research and write a history of EUMETSAT. I was the first to write this early history and was given unrestricted access to hundreds and hundreds of restricted documents. The book was circulated to high level decision makers in Europe and elsewhere, and EUMETSAT has on a number of subsequent occasions, most recently last year, invited me to tender for other writing contracts. For the contract I did win EUMETSAT provided a one page general outline of the topics it wanted covering in its history but otherwise made no effort to control or restrict my research, chapter content nor the timing of delivery of chapters beyond setting project deadlines which I met. I was short listed and interviewed for a Knight science journalism fellowship at MIT in Boston, US, but was unsuccessful, though in an encouraging way. I and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester were shortlisted in 2002 for a £40,000 award and I was interviewed in response to my application, but we were unsuccessful.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
Interviewing, abstracting, translating science and technology for different audiences. Strong learning skills in science up to and beyond degree level. Ability to research, analyze, manage and create stories and histories from large amounts of material at post graduate level. Basic office skills. I also have the skill to create webpages in basic html without any kind of package or text editor, and I built this website without help. I could check and correct and report back to you the basic html at the core of your website, before application of style sheets etc..., and I would not need to see your software interfaces, nor to know which version of html you were using, in order to provide a useful written report about the coding. My rates would be pounds 50 per hour.
My personal characteristics are a strong independent streak, but I am also a team player and I enjoy a co-operative work environment with similarly independent thinkers uninterested in imposing their view on the rest of the team but who work toward a common aim in an inclusive manner. I have management experience as an editor and as a publisher and am willing to take the lead, but would refuse to participate in compulsory redundancy because I think that is wholly unsuitable. In a strike for pay and conditions, other than against my employer, I would cross the picket line and let it be known the rate I was paid (but would not in other circumstances reveal my rate as a matter of course), on condition the company involved in industrial action had no intention of creating compulsory redundancies. It is unlikely that my day rates, lineage and expenses are below staff rates. Clearly law needs to exist to prevent such action being abused to take jobs away from those who have voted to strike.
Beats covered as a journalist over the years and which I have the competence to pick up quickly: Energy, technology, aspects of environment, biomedical research policy, space and aerospace and aspects of defence, and their science policy, tech politics and business and legal environment.
CONTACT DETAILS
165 Longfellow Court, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, HX7 5LG.
01422 886015. helen.gavaghan@btinternet.com.
I have learned more of the Courts (Civil and Criminal) than it is fair any citizen who is not guilty of crime, is not a Court officer, is not a lawyer and who was not a Court reporter (I am contemplating undertaking a lot more formal Court reporting) should have had to learn. My experiences have been deeply and profoundly distressing. A result of wrongs done by the State under cover of the MHAct.
On 17/9/08 at Bradford Crown Court His Honour Judge Scott cleared me on appeal, correctly, of harassment without violence of a secretary of West Yorkshire Police. District Judge Bennett had, correctly, found me not guilty of another set of charges on 22nd January 2008. The situation which arose, in which it seemed I was committing crime was, I allege, the fault of profoundly sexist and ageist behaviour in and from 2004 of WYPolice, of the medical profession, in particular in Halifax and at and from Hebden Bridge Group practice, of professor Michael Worboys, CHSTM, University of Manchester, and of solicitors. I was contacting the police (first time at the end of January, 2004) as a victim of what I thought was minor crime, but knew might not be minor, not as a fantasist. This saga has given rise to other issues I am also dealing with, and which are wrong doing against myself. I was also discharged automatically without restriction orders from bankruptcy on 8.11.07, and reached agreement, recorded with his consent, with Mr David Henry, to whom I gave the recording, the then Leeds-based official receiver and my trustee in bankruptcy, that my aim was annulment of bankruptcy. There is no compunction on me to do so.
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