He welcomed the restoration of German unity in 1990 but in a quiet way

He welcomed the restoration of German unity in 1990 but in a quiet way.
Lenz saw action in the infantry in the Second World War serving in France and on the Eastern Front, experiences that subsequently influenced his work. He returned to his “beloved” Stuttgart in 1946, where he married.He had started writing before the war, publishing several short stories and poems. He broke military regulations by writing during his wartime service. His first post-war work was Das stille Haus (“The Quiet House”), published in 1947 In 1949 Das doppelte Gesicht (“The Double Face”) appeared. In the first, the outer demonic world of hatred, destruction and insanity is contrasted with the order of the inner world. Both novels display a dreamlike quality in response to the world and its problems.These early works seemed to put Lenz on the road to success with other writers of his generation like Heinrich Boll But he was to be disappointed.

His literary activities did not enable him to support himself and he worked from 1951 to 1971 as secretary of the South German writers’ association.Despite this existence as a functionary he did not see himself as a political animal, nor as a political writer like Boll, Gunter Grass, Hans Werner Richter or his namesake, Siegfried Lenz, with whom he is occasionally confused. He got neither the publicity nor the literary acclaim they received in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued writing and in 1959 Der russische Regenbogen (“The Russian Rainbow”) was praised for its penetrating psychological insights and lyrical language.In 1962 Lenz seemed to break new ground with Spiegelhutte (“Mirror Cottage”) with its elements of “magical realism”. These contributed later on to his introspective observations of the decaying middle class.

However, it was in the 1970s that he first achieved overwhelming success: for his Schwabische Chronik (“Swabian Chronicle”) featuring an alter ego, the fictional writer Eugen Rapp.He defended this ploy as giving him greater freedom to write about himself. Rapp first appeared in Abandoned Room in 1966 and survived nine volumes, the last of which, Freunde (“Friends”), appeared last year. These books brought Lenz fame as a “chronicler of our century” and literary prizes followed. He won recognition abroad and was translated into Spanish, French and Italian – but not yet English.Hermann Lenz, writer: born Stuttgart 26 February 1913; married; died Munich 12 May 1998.. Re Allison; Regina v Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, ex parte Allison; Queen’s Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Kennedy and Mr Justice Blofeld) 13 May 1998

IN THE CASE of a request for extradition made by the Government of the United States, offences contrary to sections 2 and 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 were extradition crimes.
The Divisional Court dismissed applications for habeas corpus by Adeniyi Allison, and for judicial review by the US government and the Director of Public Prosecutions, both applications having been made in connection with extradition proceedings.The applicant had been arrested at the request of the US government pursuant to a provisional warrant in respect of three offences of conspiracy which also involved a woman named Joan Ojomo, a credit analyst employed by American Express at their office in Plantation, Florida.The magistrate decided to commit the applicant only on the third of those offences.The US government and the Director of Public Prosecutions sought judicial review of the magistrate’s decision not to commit on the first two offences, and the applicant, by proceedings for habeas corpus, sought to set aside the committal on the third offence, and another committal on unrelated offences connected with the State of Maryland.Clare Montgomery QC and Helen Malcolm (Burton Copeland) for the applicant; James Lewis (Crown Prosecution Service) for the Director of Public Prosecutions and the US government.Lord Justice Kennedy said that the case for the US government was that Joan Ojomo, as a credit card analyst, was authorised to access computer records and had supplied account information to her co-conspirators which had enabled them to obtain a personal identification number from American Express, encode a credit card, and draw large sums of money from automatic teller machines.The applicant contended, inter alia, that the three Florida offences alleged contraventions of ss 2 and 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and that in the case of a request for extradition made by the US government such contraventions were not extradition crimes.Section 1(3) of the Extradition Act 1989 made clear that where an Order in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870 was in force in relation to a foreign state, which was agreed to be the position in relation to the United States, schedule 1 to the 1989 Act should have effect in relation to that State “subject to the limitations, restrictions, conditions, exceptions and qualifications, if any, contained in the Order”.Having regard to the wording of the 1989 Act it was only necessary, to determine whether offences contrary to sections 2 and 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 were extradition crimes, to look at schedule 1 to the Act 1989 and the relevant Order in Council, i.e.

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TREVOR FISHERStafford. This is the more so because the decline in union funding (which is in itself welcome) has been replaced by plutocratic funding. If there is not to be a complete takeover by professional politicians, with all the abuse of power implicit in that, then alternative sources of pressure and funding need to be available. The Party’s internal democracy is already weakened by an increasingly arrogant and powerful centralised elite, and the removal of the unions would only enhance the power of Millbank. The union link needs to be democratised and modernised, but only anti- democratic forces have any interest in breaking the link.