Court time? Is he trying to put off the inevitable or is he proving to be the idiot most people think he is, someone without any understanding of the legal crisis he is in and deluding himself with the idea that he is an innocent victim that people should feel sorry for?
Probably both in my opinion. Additionally, the reality that he is a defendant is unwholesome for him, that his 'friends' have largely fled after posturing about paying his defence and that payments were likely to be rewarded with a return when Kent 'won.' The payments were even hailed as an investment but the reality is little was paid and Kent is probably struggling to meet his bills. I say that because a competent lawyer would not be butchering a defence once, let alone twice. I recall Kent writing that he had 'found' a lawyer who was going to appear for him on cut rates, but even if that were true cut rates still need to be paid and as we all know a lawyer who offers a helpful discount could either lack competence or experience and regardless of that will always prioritise full paying clients. It could even be so simple that Kent won't take advice, he's shown in many ways what an idiot he is and the common sense is a foreign concept to him, so a lawyer might simply walk away from a cut-rate fully qualified idiot client.
But more to the point is that Kent is frustrated that he has no defence, two misses already should have told him something, and common sense would have told him a lot before he started foolishly opening his mouth last year and courting a waiting press. Even the press are gone now. He's a slowly sinking bitter Titanic and I for one will patiently watch him sink along with the Stockdales, Taylors, Memberys and Camerons of this world along with their pedo secrets and hate.
I don't think Kent is deliberately wasting time, as I'm sure he realises such tricks are not appreciated by the judiciary. Kent clearly doesn't understand the process and has convinced himself his defence of free speech is sufficient to get him off. He also mistakenly believes that if his statements are true, then they can't be defamatory.
ReplyDeleteProblem Kent has, is that he can't prove his statements are true, because the majority of them aren't. He and his supporters have allowed themselves to get carried away, spouting off left, right and centre, trying to outdo each other by finding the biggest insult they can come up with.
Kent's best option would be to settle out of court, and issue a public apology. Usually such agreements are far less expensive than forcing the process into the Court. The judiciary are not impressed with people wasting the courts time over something that is a fait accompli. They especially take a very dim view of smart alecs who think they can rewrite law and cover themselves for being rude and dishonest, under the guise of free speech.
I agree. He won't get away with a claim that his statements are true or that they are free speech. Free speech is not an issue in Karam v Parker and Lollipop.
ReplyDeleteYes he should attempt to settle, and regardless of the outcome of that publicly apologise. Any statement of defence should mirror that. As you say the Courts will take a dim view of him trying to rewrite the law or attempt to use the occasion to make himself a martyr. Additionally, the Courts are busy and unwilling to engage in fantasy wheeled out by someone with a brittle grasp of reality. There a several signs that Kent maybe undergoing some kind of psychotic episode. Although we are somewhat familiar with him we cannot forget that he is a dangerous, deluded individual driven by an enormous quantity of hate. We should be alert because he may be entering a even more dangerous phase. The pity is that there seems no one interested or willing that knows him prepared to intervene - perhaps prevented by fear.
It is a pity Kent didn't take Joe's request to stop the defamation, when given the chance. Sure he took some of the statements down, but then made other equally damaging statements, and still continues to do so. None of that is going to assist him, with his attempts to convince a jury he was merely trying to balance the scales after Joe's sucess in Court.
ReplyDeleteKent has forgotten, or doesn't understand, that unlike him, the majority of the population, and especially the judiciary, do not see the Bain case as being between Joe and Robin, but rather David Bain vs The Queen (the Courts) Kent's insistence that he needs to equalise, what he sees as a wrong verdict, by attacking Joe is going to go down, like a cup of cold sick.