There's been - justifiably - a lot said about the degree to which the Horizon scandal was made worse by the Post Office's ability to be a private prosecutor. It's certainly a factor. Anyone taking a basic criminal law class finds out from the
(A warning: this has quasi-explicit politics in it. Feel free to ignore, and wait for me to come back to things at least tangentially associated with law, or nerdery, or the usual subjects. I'm therefore posting it without emailing it. I'm not convinced those who signed
Issue 2 of the ongoing online Commonplace booklet. An old friend and colleague was kind enough to say this stuff gave him food for further thought. I'm touched and delighted: part of the point of this is that sometimes I'm not sure what I think about
I'm working on something about whether the Fraud Act 2006 could be used for prosecutions in relation to the Horizon scandal. Not quite there yet. Give me a bit longer. In the meantime, though, the rich and rotten vein of bandwagon-jumping by politicians following the superb ITV series
[Note: this was published on our Chambers website last week. But since it was me who wrote it, it also belongs here. Apologies to those who've therefore been exposed to it twice.] Civil courts can do lots of things. They decide whether a deal is really a deal.
John Naughton (Whom - as he puts it - God Preserve) includes a chunk at the end of his usually thrice-weekly blog for stuff he's just noticed somewhere and wants to keep a record of. This is a reinterpretation of a very, very old and excellent habit: people
This isn't the first time I've mentioned these little heuristics, I realise. But as we go into another year likely to be dominated by shouted appeals to the demons in our souls, rather than the angels of our better natures, something I read on New Year&
It's been too quiet around the Scott-Joynt online homestead. There are personal reasons (good or otherwise I'll leave you to judge when I finally get round to setting them out). But one other reason is friction. Maintaining both a Wordpress site (at https://remoteaccessbar.com) and
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It's nice to see a government at least pretend to take fraud seriously. It'd be nicer for them actually to do so.
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We've all kicked ourselves on occasion for missing the chance to ask about the thing that's really important. Although sometimes the answer is too obvious for words...
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Politicians shade the truth. Fact of life. But that's different from deliberately seeking to mislead. Option one is excusable. Option two isn't. Kwasi Kwarteng: I'm looking at you.
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Weight isn't just a matter of physics. It's a matter of heart.