A Polemic (controversial, disputatious) Essay by G. Stephen Holmes For a period of 28 months, from mid November 2004 to the beginning of March 2007, I was the subject of a so-called “court order” issued by Deputy Deemster AK Williamson, purportedly made in the Family Division of the High Court of “justice” in the Isle of Man. I say “purportedly “purportedly”” because there was no legality to the socalled order of the Family Division issued on 5 th November 2004; and there would have been no legal basis to the so-called order from the outset – the “order” was void ab initio. initio. AK Williamson was High Bailiff from 1995 and Deputy High Bailiff before that [from 6 th January 1988] – he spent a total of 15⅔ 15⅔ years in the lower criminal court called the Court of Summary Jurisdiction. Williamson knew no civil law. Williamson “ordered” that his two paragraph declaratory order of be “served” in two places – at the school where children were being educated, and at Port Erin Police Station and Police Headquarters Douglas. The High Court is a civil court, and a declaration by the High Court does not need to be sent to the criminal justice system (in this case the Isle of Man Constabulary) unless children are at risk – but if children are at risk there HAS TO BE evidence presented to the court to protect the children. The fact is that from the date that AK-47 Williamson was appointed Deputy Deemster, 1 st September 2002, all Manx children involved in “children proceedings” were at risk from the Deputy Deemster because he had no clue about Human Rights or even children rights. Unbeknownst to me, on 1st July 2004, AK Williamson began a dispute between himself and me with him as the Judge! He LIED from the Bench on Thursday 1 st July 2004 – he alleged that there was “a – an order from Lancaster” County Court that had been “registered” in the High Court in the Isle of Man when no such orders had in fact been registered, and it should have been obvious to anyone with a brain that no valid registration had taken place. But I am talking about the Isle of Man High Court of Justice where no First Deemster has ever been a specialist in CIVIL LAW; the path to First Deemster has always been through the Court of General Gaol Delivery, the upper criminal court. “Roy” Eason went from High Bailiff to Second Deemster to First Deemster; Henry Callow went from High Bailiff to Second Deemster; but AK Williamson went from 25 years in the criminal courts in England & Wales and the Isle of Man to the Family Division and the Common Law Division of the High Court of Justice – without ANY training or qualifications; a trained chimpanzee would have made a better Deputy Deemster. Governor Ian Macfadyean described Williamson as “an excellent appointment” – but I would describe Williamson as “the worst civil court Deemster ever;” the worst Deemster since 1422 (or 1417; or 1366). And the thing is that Macfadyean had no evidence to substantiate his allegation – the report for 1 st July 2004 shows the following cases – Div 2000/199 Robley v Robley - A Thomas & P Pringle Div 2004/054 Cass v Cass - J Quinn & A Hannan Div 2004/144 Holmes v Holmes - Both In Person Div 2003/180 Watling v Watling - S Watson & J Thornley Div 2004/028 Cubbon v Cubbon - J Thornley & A Hannan Div 2004/149 Purvis v Crellin - In Person both parties Div 2002/089 Quayle v Quayle - A Hannan - no appearance Div 2003/212 Moore v Moore - P Butterworth & P Pringle (no notice given) Div 2002/168 Fox-Hulme v Fox-Hulme In person & No appearance of res DDW Mrs Fox-Hulme sworn in - evidence in chief Div 1999/259 Brown v Brown - A Hannan & J Quinn Div.2004/180 Faragher v Carter Ex Parte - E McPherson Div 2004/181 Hughes v Carter Ex Parte - E McPherson Div.2003/302B McAleer v McAleer – D Jones & R Lindley (for K O'Riordan) One wonders how many of these cases were in fact children matters – it seems that cases going back to 1999 were misgoverned because children matters were not listed as Re A Child but as Kramer versus Kramer; just like cases in New York State in the 1970s and 1980s. There was an Act of Tynwald from 1953 called the Guardianship of Infants Act which was based on two Acts of Parliament in Westminster – the 1886 and 1925 Guardianship of Infants Acts. But whereas Parliament introduced the Guardianship of Minors Act in 1971 and the Guardianship Act in 1973, before the Children Act 1989 [passed in November 1989], Tynwald did nothing between 1953 and 1990 when the Family Law Bill was pushed through to introduce the concepts contained in the Children Act 1989 to Manx authorities. Even with the creation of a new Division of the High Court called the Family Division (on 1 st October 1992) nothing changed – the High Court Office continued to list children matters as Kramer versus Kramer and used the prefix Div on every case to confuse David Doyle in the future – Doyle was appointed in March 2003. Now read on – and understand why I am writing this polemic; and why I am so angry with the Deemsters.