"The Post Office Scandal, with a particular eye on lawyers' ethics"
Although Clarke, CK, Altman etc are important players, they are foot soldiers in the miscarriage of justice. Those responsible for the managing and ensuring the mis-justice are the judges in their courts. But their role and actions in the process are rarely mentioned in the inquiry or other commentary.
Are the judges immune from accountability for their incompetence, individually and as a class? If judges cannot be relied upon to tease out false facts, identify missing information, point out defective logic and lying, the structure of our civil society is even more fragile than recent political activities suggest.
"The Post Office Scandal, with a particular eye on lawyers' ethics"
Although Clarke, CK, Altman etc are important players, they are foot soldiers in the miscarriage of justice. Those responsible for the managing and ensuring the mis-justice are the judges in their courts. But their role and actions in the process are rarely mentioned in the inquiry or other commentary.
Are the judges immune from accountability for their incompetence, individually and as a class? If judges cannot be relied upon to tease out false facts, identify missing information, point out defective logic and lying, the structure of our civil society is even more fragile than recent political activities suggest.
Judges are lawyers too.