Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills was a case heard in September-October 2007 in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, concerning the permissibility of the Government providing Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth to English state schools as a teaching aid. The case was brought by Stewart Dimmock, a lorry (HGV) driver and school governor from Kent, England, a father of two sons who attend a state school. Dimmoc...
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Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills was a case heard in September-October 2007 in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, concerning the permissibility of the Government providing Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth to English state schools as a teaching aid. The case was brought by Stewart Dimmock, a lorry (HGV) driver and school governor from Kent, England, a father of two sons who attend a state school. Dimmock has twice stood as a local election candidate for the New Party and received backing for the case from Viscount Monckton, the author of the New Party's manifesto. Monckton, one of the UK's most prominent climate change sceptics, launched an advertising campaign against Al Gore in March, 2007 challenging Gore to a public debate on climate change. Monckton has received funding from a Washington-based conservative think tank of which he is chief policy adviser, the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), to create a film, Apocalypse No,...
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