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...rejected, there is no government funding for appeals to the courts. Applicants must find a lawyer themselves - in most cases, one who is willing to take their case pro bono. For someone in a detention center whose English is poor, this tends to be a haphazard process, says Nick Poynder: "It's just luck." Barrister Claire O'Connor says she's not allowed to visit an unrepresented detainee unless she has a written invitation from them. But she can visit prisons, "where anyone can come and ask for my help." Without legal advice, an asylum seeker has little chance...
Married. John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham, 34, monarchist editor of the National and English Review, whose 1957 analysis of "The Monarchy Today" thoughtfully explored the Crown's position in a world where "republics are the rule," but earned him inglorious publicity for his choice of phrases about the Queen's speaking style ("a pain in the neck") and manner ("that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team"); and Marian Campbell, 27, editor of a youth magazine published by Altrincham; in Tormarton, England...
...Take that!" said the little man, and as newsreel cameras whirred, he slapped the young peer in the face. "It didn't hurt me a bit," said 33-year-old John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, as his assailant was led away, but throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists...
...graduate of Eton and Oxford, a good London clubman (Bucks and Beefsteak), a wartime Grenadier Guardsman, an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the House of Commons, the son of a former colonial governor of Kenya and a peer of the realm, young (32) John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, might well be expected to defend with heart and hand the well-rooted principle of British conservatism. Instead, as the peppery and literate editor of the National and English Review (which he inherited along with his title from his father), Tory Lord Altrincham has aimed the barbs...
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