Colin Wilson - Deadbeat Dad and Minor UK Freeman Guru

[Burnaby49]

There is a Scottish Court of Sessions decision that has recently been featuring very prominently in Canadian OPCA jurisprudence:

Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Wilson, 2014 SLR 46, [2013] CSIH 95
http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS ... SIH95.html

Some guy called Colin Wilson who figured his signature on a note was payment in full for past child support arrears and the amount should just be added to the national debt rather than pestering him about it.

[5] The appellant informed the sheriff that he had offered the respondents satisfaction of the debt by means of a promissory note, granted by him, and that he was prepared to work for the respondent at his normal hourly rate. The hearing had apparently required to be continued from 22 May and the appellant had made an offer to pay the respondents £15,000 in the form of his own promissory note during the time the hearing had been adjourned. In discussion before the sheriff, however, it had become clear to the sheriff that the appellant did not intend to pay the sum in question. The appellant's position appeared to be that the note was as good as cash. The appellant suggested that, in the event of default by him on the note, it would be dealt with in the same way as a default by the Bank of England and his promissory note might become part of the national debt.

After a bit of poking around online I've concluded that Colin Wilson is a significant 'guru-minor' in the UK even though he failed totally in his own case. Ceylon, for one, relies on him as a source:

http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org/forum/v ... 60&t=57203
http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org/forum/v ... 09&start=0

I think this is Wilson posting as "Walter" on the fmotl.com forum about the trial level proceeding that led to the Court of Sessions decision:

http://forum.fmotl.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=5582

And there's a marijuana angle, of course. "Walter" advocating for Freeman potheads;

http://forum.fmotl.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=5809

and in this post by Ceylon;

http://thinkfree.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1086.0

In the latter his email is "email: walter@freemanscotland.co.uk".

The associated website still exists

http://www.freemanscotland.co.uk

It looks like the website went inactive somewhere around 2010 - but that's a guesstimate.

Does anyone have more information on Wilson, his background, what happened to him, etc?

Thanks!

[grixit]

Did he ever pay up, or are the british taxpayers feeding his children?

[Forsyth]

Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Wilson, 2014 SLR 46, [2013] CSIH 95
http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS ... SIH95.html

That's a good one. A nice, simple, clear demolishing of the 'Lord Denning' argument without being overly cluttered by discussion of other issues.

It makes it quite clear that "A promissory note is not legal tender" and that "As a means of extinguishing an existing debt, it can only perform that function if the creditor in the debt has agreed to that being the case" and, of course, "the creditor cannot be obliged to agree to a promissory note being the method of extinguishing a debt due to him".

And as far as Lord Denning is concerned "That dictum was uttered in a case where the agreed contractual basis for payment of the creditor was by way of a number of promissory notes" ... "The point in that case was that the grantors of the promissory note were failing to perform their promises in terms thereof; and their defence for doing so was held by the court to be without merit".

[wanglepin]

I know deadbeat was a member of the old tpuc at one time. He was in to Fathers4Justice and Deadbeatdad Association, well liked and looked up to by the brain dead beat idiots on tpuc, along with his partner who posted as tigereyes, CheekyCherub then she posted as Forest Nymph. (didn't like it when I called her GUMP!) She had a big fall out with that other simpleton John Harris and his chief admin Ben Hudson. (Hudson owns the new tpuc). The times I warned her Hudson was setting her up for a fall I just couldn’t count, because she was so far up her own arse to believe they (her best friends) would turn on her..and they did.
DBD was into lawful rebellion too telling everyone who would listen that the affidavits to the Queen actually work. (in what way or what purpose it would assist them is beyond me)
http://www.lawfulrebellion.org/2010/01/ ... vits-work/