strawman

Steven Oxborough,
East Cambridgeshire District Council,
Breckland House,
St Nicholas Street,
Thetford,
IP24 1BT
Your Ref: 71146498
Dear Steven,
NOTICE OF REQUEST TO CEASE HARASSMENT
I am today in receipt of your letter dated 5th January 2011. Your continuing with this matter constitutes
harassment under Section 4 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 which is a criminal offence and I am fully
entitled to report you personally to the police as the first step in the three step process of your criminal prosecution
for harassment.
You appear to be determined to ignore the facts in this case, so let me state them in as simple terms as I can
manage:
1. The Magistrates Court ruled on 18th November 2010 that I am not the entity on which you are trying to impose
Council Tax. It follows then, that all payments made by me in this matter have been paid in error and
consequently those payments should be refunded forthwith.
2. As has been confirmed repeatedly in previous correspondence, I personally, am not part of the society whose
statutes and regulations you are attempting to enforce, and so Council Tax does not apply to me personally
and there is no requirement for me to make any such payments. The legal statutes which you quote, in
common with all other legal statutes and statutory instruments, do not apply to me personally as I do not
consent to be bound by them.
3. You state that the Magistrates Court ruled that you were acting in accordance with the government finance act
1992 (which is only a statute and not a law) and that they issued a Liability Order. However, you do not seem
to realize that the Order was issued against the non-existing MR PATRICK KELLY which that Magistrates
Court had just ruled was NOT me personally. As I have already pointed out to you, no Magistrate’s Court is
entitled to make rulings on Liability or to issue Liability Orders. The relevant information can be found in the
2010 issue of Stone's Justices' Manual, section 1-382: “Magistrates' Court procedure relating to Jurisdiction”,
it lays down the remit of a Magistrates Court, namely:
A. To try any summary offence.
B. As examining justices over any offence committed by a person who appears or is brought before the court.
C. Subject to SS 18-22 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, to try summarily any offence which is tryable
either way.
D. In the exercise of its powers under S 24 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 to try summarily an indictable
offence.
The determining of matters to do with Council Tax liability do not fall within the scope of any Magistrates Court
nor is any Magistrates Court entitled to issue a Liability Order with respect to Council Tax. You are not
entitled, therefore, to take any action based on any such Order and if you do, that action can be deemed to be
illegal and fraudulent. I wrote to Bury Magistrates Court on 3rd December 2010, bringing this matter to their
attention and urging them to stop holding such hearings or issuing Liability Orders when they are not
authorised to do so. They wrote back but have not been able to deny the fact that Council Tax Liability does
not come within the scope of their court nor that they are not entitled to issue Liability Orders with respect to
Council Tax. Consequently, there is no legal basis for you to take any form of action based on that or any
similar Order issued by any Magistrates Court.
4. You mention the fact that a completed “Information Request” was not returned to you. Let me draw to your
attention to the fact that there is no requirement in law, for me the human being, to disclose any such
information to you. In addition, I am not the entity which you are attempting to charge.
5. Estoppel has been established in this matter. You do not appear to understand what that means. It means that
you have entered into a binding legal agreement that I do not owe any Council Tax. In essence, I asked you
to provide the lawful basis on which you were attempting to make the charge. You failed to do that. I then
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