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Carroll's avatar

That CK had a conflict of interest seems blindingly obvious to me.

But the PO legal department also had one. They were ultimately responsible for ensuring that prosecutions were done in compliance with the law. They weren't - and this went way beyond the Horizon data issues. They did not recognise that conflict let alone take any steps to mitigate it. Rather, it led to the disastrous decisions and advice the lawyers took and gave their clients, in part motivated by the need to avoid any scrutiny of the failures of the legal function in relation to the investigations and prosecutions functions.

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Philip Wardle's avatar

I'm pretty shocked at the ethical standards of the legal profession. There may be value in carrying out a benchmarking activity with the engineering profession, regulated by the UK Engineering Council. This has a Statement of Ethical Principle, jointly developed with the Royal Academy of Engineering, to which all engineering institutions and their members sign up to. I'm proud to have worked as a professional engineer for almost 50 years and, in my experience, the organisations and colleagues I've worked with have operated to a pretty decent ethical standard.

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