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Further inaccuracies highlighted in Gore film

Many will recall that last month New Party member Stewart Dimmock scored a notable victory in the High Court when judgement was handed down on the Government’s decision to distribute Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to all secondary schools in England. The court flagged up nine clear cut inaccuracies in the film and required the Government to make an interim payment of £60,000 towards Mr Dimmock’s legal bill.

However, the inaccuracies listed by the court reflected only the sample requested by the Judge.  The witness statement of Professor Robert Carter lists 20 such errors rather than the 9 detailed in the judgement.  The New Party has today published the full transcript from the case along with the witness statements of Professor Carter and Lord Monckton.

A New Party spokesman commented, “We have published these court papers in order to show the full extent of the errors and exaggerations in the Gore film.  We hope that by doing so we will enable teachers to be better prepared if they decide to use this film in the classroom.  We also hope that school students will find the material helpful in conducting their own research into the issue.”

Distributing the film without highlighting the inaccuracies is unlawful.  High Court Judge, Mr Justice Burton, stated that “there would have been a breach of sections 406 and 407 of the [Education] Act [1996] but for the bringing of these proceedings...”  He therefore awarded Stuart Dimmock two-thirds costs against the Government.

You can find the court transcript and witness statements here.