{"id":1290,"date":"2009-12-20T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-12-20T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:13:35","slug":"convict-claimed-the-word-prisoner-breached-his-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Convict claimed the word ‘prisoner’ breached his human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Priosoner Bernard Pennington<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n

A violent prisoner tried to sue a volunteer jail worker for not calling him ‘Mr’.
\nBernard Pennington, who is serving a life sentence for a machete attack on his wife claimed the term ‘prisoner’ was derogatory and a breach of his human rights.<\/p>\n

He tried to sue David Luckett, voluntary chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board, which checks up on day-to-day life at Kingston Prison in Portsmouth, for \u00a3300. The case cost the tax payer \u00a36,000,<\/p>\n

Mr Luckett, who is also a magistrate, had referred to him as ‘prisoner Pennington’ in a letter after the convict made a complaint to the board about his treatment Mr Lucket resigned his post after 13 years of volunteering.<\/p>\n

But District Judge Peter Jolly threw the case out at Portsmouth County Court, saying there was ‘no merit’ to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Pennington, 63, who was jailed for nearly killing his wife Jessie in 1984, did not attend the hearing, despite a bus being laid on to drive him from Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight where he is now held.<\/p>\n

The judge said, “This case is totally without merit. There are no reasonable grounds for Mr Pennington to bring this case.
\nHad I not struck it out on that basis I would have struck it out on the grounds of non attendance or I would have struck on the grounds of abuse of process.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Priosoner Bernard Pennington A violent prisoner tried to sue a volunteer jail worker for not calling him ‘Mr’. Bernard Pennington, who is serving a life sentence for a machete attack on his wife claimed the term ‘prisoner’ was derogatory and a breach of his human rights. He tried to sue David Luckett, voluntary chairman of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}