Dear Everyone,

As promised, I am writing to report about Day 2 of the hearing in True Father's immigration case here in Britain.

We began at 10.00 am when the government counsel, Monica Carss-Frisk Q.C. started to present the case for the Home Secretary, David Blunkett. The main point for the government was that True Father was someone who was applying for protection of his human rights from "outside the jurisdiction" and that the European Human Rights Convention simply did not apply to someone in that category. It only protected those who were physically in the country or in limited other situations like on ships sailing under the national flag etc. She cited case after case that appeared to show this and said that the cases cited by David Pannick to show the opposite had been wrongly interpreted by him. Almost one and a half hours was taken up with this very dry procedural kind of submission. Only for about half an hour or forty minutes at the end did she address the actual facts of the case and our contention that the Home Secretary simply did not have a case at all. Needless to say she denied this and pointed to a couple of things that Prof Eileen Barker had said that were critical of us such as that TF had become wealthy as a result of members efforts and lived in luxury and that quite a few people had suffered over the last 30 years as a result of the UC although she did not say how. However, it was not a strong performance, much less a compelling one. It lasted just two hours and ten minutes.

According to the procedure in such cases the person appealing then has a second chance to speak in order to address arguments raised in the response. The judge offered David Pannick half an hour to prepare his arguments. However, he turned down this opportunity and immediately went straight into the counter-attack with a high octane mixture of clinical and biting logic and withering criticism of the Home Office and the Home Secretary as well as of their counsel who had got the case law and also TF's arguments wrong. He showed that they had simply not understood the law about the application of the Human Rights convention and that the judge was clearly bound to accept a higher decision that said a person in TF's situation (physically outside the territory of the convention) was entitled to protection for human rights that he sought to exercise inside the territory in relation to persons to whom he was deeply connected (such as religious followers) and denounced all the arguments put forward on the factual case as rationalisations thought up at the last moment to justify a thoroughly bad original decision by David Blunkett. It was a very strong performance. The atmosphere was very bright and under control spiritually.

Our brother Philip Hill who is very spiritually open saw two main phenomena today. First whereas yesterday the judge had been surrounded by a single layer of angels with a particularly strong (golden) angel sitting in the middle of him, today there were a further 2 protecting layers of angels protecting him from any negative influence as well as huge numbers of the ancestors liberated and blessed at Chung Pyung present in the room. Second, many Korean elders in the spirit world including especially Tiger Park were standing next to the government lawyers and giving them a hard time.

The judge said he could not give a decision there and then but would give a written decision in about two weeks. Although it may be disappointing not to know the result in principle immediately, this means that we will have a very full decision quite quickly. Once the decision is received either side has 28 days in which to lodge any appeal. It is very important that we keep making our special conditions until we get the decision. It is clear that it these conditions more than anything else that have made the hearing go as well as it has, but with the judge away from the court and in his own environment it is important that he continues to receive strong spiritual support and protection while he writes his decision. Therefore, I want to request that all Europe be asked to continue to pray for Michael Clements until further notice. Again, many thanks indeed to you Rev Song for all your support and guidance and to all the committee and all members who have been giving such wonderful support.

Sincerely,
Mark Brann

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