{"id":37385,"date":"2011-07-24T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/court-refuses-trial-by-combat\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:44:23","slug":"court-refuses-trial-by-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/court-refuses-trial-by-combat.php","title":{"rendered":"Court Refuses Trial by Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"

They should have accepted it and televised it<\/a>. <\/p>

A court has rejected a 60-year-old man’s attempt to invoke the ancient right to trial by combat, rather than pay a £25 fine for a minor motoring offence.<\/p>

Leon Humphreys remained adamant yesterday that his right to fight a champion nominated by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) was still valid under European human rights legislation. He said it would have been a “reasonable” way to settle the matter.<\/p>

Magistrates sitting at Bury St Edmunds on Friday had disagreed and instead of accepting his offer to take on a clerk from Swansea with “samurai swords, Ghurka knives or heavy hammers”, fined him £200 with £100 costs.<\/p>

Humphreys, an unemployed mechanic, was taken to court after refusing to pay the original £25 fixed penalty for failing to notify the DVLA that his Suzuki motorcycle was off the road.<\/p>

After entering a not guilty plea, he threw down his unconventional challenge. Humphreys, from Bury St Edmunds, said: “I was willing to fight a champion put up by the DVLA, but it would have been a fight to the death.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

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