Ultra vires and the Over the past five years, student unions have suffered serious attacks on their status as independent organisations freedom over their own activities. Changes in student union financing handed over our purse strings to the governors of our institutions. These have been closely followed by a hard-line re-interpretation of the law on so-called 'Ultra-Vires' spending.
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A letter from the Attorney General to college principles, light for legal action against student unions that use funds for activities not in either the students as such or the affairs of the college as such'.
The letter goes on to list examples of spending that would be judged 'Ultra Vires'. supporting industrial disputes, political campaigns or demonstrations and providing transport to any of these. Simple donations to would be judged illegal.
'Ihis is a clear attack on the students unions aimed at preventing any serious solidarity action with workers or other political struggles. As such, the use of the charity laws against student unions have a clear political relation to the legal attacks on the trade unions in the Tebbit and Prior acts.
The widespread support for the Miners' struggle in the student movement, constantly raises the with Vice-Chancellors, etc. gives the green 'the interests of These include political causes MRS GILLICK, whose case against the DHSS came before the Appeal Court last week, is a member of LIFE, part of the Festival of Light. She does not want her five daughters to be given advice or treatment for contraception or abortion without her express consent before they reach the age of 16. (She seeks no such assurance for her five boys!)
The festival of light — Britain's own 'moral majority' — perverted'. It leads children to experiment in sex, and to increased Teaching children about contraception takes away the fear of pregnancy and leads to more sex. Instead of sex education what is needed is firm parental control.
Her case is based on main points. First, sexual intercourse for gir under sixteen is illegal even with the girl's consent In fact the law is that a girl cannot give consent - the law was enacted 'to save her from herself'. So docLUID who prescribe COll traception are 'aiding and abettino' a crime ano. even if not themselves commitrille acting 'illegally'.
Rugby demo arrest • believes that sex education is 'amoral and teenage pregnancy VD.
Second, because children under under the control of thei parents, including, in all of the patient-doctor relationship between doctor must ill tee doctor must there can be no breach of confidentiality because the child is not the patient!
Although Mrs Gillick's case refers only to her own daughters, if she wins the lords his will clearly the Lords) clearly present the DHSS with big problems. The world is a long way from being composed of ideal, cosy ren ite children suffer from incest. battering and neglect from their loving parents.
they believe that their parents will be informed without their consent, how many girls will seek contraceptive advice? The rate of illegal abor tions abandoned babies will certainly rise.
The right wing campaign on this issue is up, and it thi DHSS wins there will be pressure on MPs to get the current Guidelines changed. The National Abortion Campaign other groups must act now to campaion on the left to prepare a fightback. We cannot rely on the courts or Parliament to do it for 1000 MARCHED in Rugby on Nov 10th against that council's ban on Lesbian and Gay employment. spoke to one of those arrested, after police charged the ed a large section of the march sat down and thet the pigs moved in. There was utter contusion and & They went for the Lesbians first and anyone who went o mea were charged with obstruc ting the highway cluding with obstructing the police.
We were kept for six ana a nal nours in a cel with no food or drink or shoes and they kept abusing us all this time. We on.
La lawyer half hour before we were let What's happened since! The case was postponed a a hearing on 16 Nov where we had to remove badges eic as con stitutes contempt of court! It was reset for 16 Dec -has been set urgently need money for egal costs as 16 of us ar receiving no legal aid. Co lections have started bu we need lots more. We'll gladly send speakers out Where do you want sup port from?
Obviously all sections the Lesbian Gay movements groups such as Lesbian Gays the Miners because all of us feel that the harassment we on the march, tha faced by the miners, are all part of the same general attack • We've approached LGSM so we can use their contacts with groups and the NUM t canvass for support • Contact for the defence committer is GALOP, 38, Mount Pleasant, Lon don WC1 (01-278 6215).