The UK used to be one place that defended human rights in courts. WTF happened?
To be fair on the British Criminal Justice system it seems that this is based on a judgement by one judge and not a point of law. Therefore it is a case for the judiciary to address rather than legal channels.
I am sure there must be an appeal process. If not it is quite disheartening.
It does not matter how you feel about J. A. (I am no fan.) but whatever happened to habeas corpus, why should anyone have to spend years in jail awaiting a trial or hearing. While of course the legal profession are busy making money out of the case no doubt. Habeas Corpus was made part of the legal system in the first place, to prevent people being imprisoned long term without charges or trial, we cut the head of a king, (Charles 1. ) for doing that. But I suppose that doing it for political reasons may be bad, while doing it because creating a system which is deliberately slow and ineffective in order to make greater profits is OK.