5th May 2014
12 B Douglas, IM1
President of the High Court David Doyle Courts of injustice building Douglas, IM1 3AR Your Honour Deemster Doyle Div. 2004/144 I attended the lecture by Prof. Peter Edge at the Manx Museum on Saturday 3 rd May 2014 and was delighted by the subject, and the enviable knowledge of the Professor. I note that it is now the intention of the Isle of Man Law Society to make Manx Criminal Law and Procedure available online, to supplement Professor Edge's Manx Public Law. I note that in your book you reference section 80 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2001; but the only case cited was in 2000 under the CYPA 1966 (section 34). I am delighted to tell you that whereas I had no respect for AK Williamson; and have no respect for you or Andrew Corlett, or for Geoffrey Robertson or Chris Melton because you are all biased or “partial to the wicked,” I respected Professor Edge immediately. The reason I do not respect you is that you mentioned case file Div 2004/144 in your public judgment of 14th December 2011; you published a case file reference number – to a member of the public that number was the 144th Divorce case in 2004. Except it wasn't a divorce – it was a matter about my Manx children, “Child A and Child B”. Let me remind you what happened on 5th September 2007: Mrs Holmes took the “order” you issued on 3rd September 2007 into a police station in Port Erin or Castletown. You ordered that “Gordon Stephen Holmes do return Katarina May Holmes to the Isle of Man,” not that Katarina May Holmes be returned to the Isle of Man forthwith. You mentioned MY NAME on the so-called “order” but I am NOT A CHILD. Orders under section 11 of the CYPA 2001 are with respect to children. And Mrs Holmes made a NEW application with regard to Katie on 3 rd September 2007 – her application was nothing whatsoever to do with my Application of 18 th May 2004. My Application was dismissed by the charlatan Williamson on 1st July 2004 and that case file (Div 2004/144) should have been closed on about 12th July 2004 when the “order” was actually issued. Note that the socalled order of 1st July 2004 had the words “In Chambers” on it. You wrote: My judgment of the 10 th March 2008 16. I should also record that on the 10 th March 2008 I delivered judgment (in DIV 2004/144) granting residence and contact orders in respect of the children. The Claimant sadly did not positively engage with those proceedings. He did not attend the hearing on the 10 th March 2008. The hearing had been set by an order made on the 29 th November 2007.
Div 2004/144 ENDED on 1st July 2004, so you held a kangaroo court “hearing” on 3 rd September 2007 and on 10th March 2008 – there were no intra vires “proceedings” with which to engage. By mentioning “residence and contact orders in respect of the children” you had put the matter in the public domain on 10th March 2008, which was unlawful. Let me tell you what Justice Munby wrote in the High Court (E+W) on 18 th December 2000; two years before you became second Deemster. Section IV on the other hand, as I have indicated, deals with an important point of law which should therefore, as it seems to me, be made available to a wider audience. Accordingly I propose to give leave for the reporting of this introduction and of Sections IV and VII of the judgment. Because it involves children, I have prepared this judgment in anonymised form so that those parts of it which I have just mentioned may, although given in chambers, be treated as having been given in open court. However, nothing must be published which might lead, either directly or indirectly, to the identification of the children involved in this case.
“Nothing must be published which might lead, either directly or indirectly, to the identification of the children involved in this case”.